172 articles by Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
Integrating Moody’s with Claude
Bringing top-tier credit intelligence into AI At MarsBased, we partnered with Moody’s to make their credit-intelligence data, ratings, analysis, scorecards, and research, accessible directly within AI workflows powered by Claude. Using the Model Context Protocol.
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Agents will not kill SaaS: They will circumvent it
Agentic AI won't kill SaaS because the value of SaaS isn't in the code itself. That's easy to replicate, but the rest isn't.
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Adopting JSON-LD Schema for cleaner, more powerful SEO
By implementing schema correctly, you improve how content appears in search results and when URLs are unfurled on social media or by AI tools like ChatGPT
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How we build GPTApps
We have been building all kinds of technical platforms and projects for over ten years at MarsBased, and we apply this accumulated knowledge to the AI projects we're building now at GPTApps.
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How we prepare our board meetings with Linear
We fixed board unstructured board meetings by using Linear. The result is shorter, calmer meetings focused on decisions rather than reporting.
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Betting harder than ever for remote work
MarsBased was founded twelve years ago as a remote-first company not out of convenience, but out of conviction. Long before remote work became mainstream, we deliberately chose to build an officeless company around trust, autonomy, and life balance.
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Replacing jQuery with React: a pragmatic migration plan (with real estimates)
Legacy frontends rarely fail loudly. They fail quietly: slower iteration, harder UI changes, more edge-case bugs, and a growing sense that every improvement costs too much. That is usually the moment teams consider moving from a jQuery-heavy UI to a component-based frontend like React.
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Why have we forbidden agentic browsers at MarsBased?
Agentic browsers are untamed. A diamond in the rough. As such, they need polishing before we fully utilise them in a safe way. In the meantime, we are not using them at MarsBased.
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Vibe coding: the new no-code?
Is vibe coding the new no-code? Here's a "the good, the bad and the ugly" breakdown of the state of the art in vibe coding.
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Introducing GPTApps
A new MarsBased initiative to help companies embrace artificial intelligence. We eventually merged that project into MarsBased.
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Calm entrepreneurship
We have to normalise calm entrepreneurship. The culture of grinding is dead.
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Are you prepared for NIS2?
The new European directive is coming into full effect, and we wanted to be prepared for it so we can help you.
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