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The boy-scout engineer: Frontending with detail series (part 3)
True quality is defined by a mindset of accountability and the Boy-Scout Rule of leaving code cleaner than you found it. Senior success requires radical ownership and rigorous self-review to deliver excellence in every single commit.
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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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MarsBased @ MWC & 4YFN 2026
Barcelona is turning into the global tech epicenter this week, and MarsBased is right in the thick of it. Our CEO, Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit , and our CTO, Xavier Redó Cano, will be taking the stage across several venues to discuss Agentic AI, the future of engineering, and sustainable growth.
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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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Trust is the ultimate success metric: We’re back with Singularu!
Trust is the ultimate metric: We are thrilled to be back 'in the kitchen' with Singularu for a new strategic chapter.
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The quality crisis in software
Software quality is declining even as tools improve. Buggy launches and unpolished AI apps signal a crisis in digital craft — quality is now a competitive edge.
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How we automated hiring triage with n8n + ChatGPT
We recently automated one of the most time-consuming non-technical processes in our company: early-stage hiring triage. To do this, we use n8n. n8n is our platform of choice for AI automation: it connects tools and APIs, runs processes on triggers (like a new form submission), and lets us add logic
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Using Cursor as a Product Manager: faster answers, fewer pings
Stop the Slack scavenger hunt and navigate your codebase directly. Learn how to use Cursor to get faster answers and reduce engineer pings.
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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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On the path to ISO 27001 certification
MarsBased is pursuing ISO 27001 certification. Our security practices were already robust — this formalises and validates our commitment to data protection.
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Defensive engineering for unhappy paths: Frontending with Detail series (part 2)
Build resilient frontends even when you don't own the backend. Learn how API mocking, feature flags, and defensive engineering can handle the unhappy path.
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