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Building a marketing website with Vercel’s v0: Our honest experience
Our team recently built and launched a full marketing website using Vercel’s v0, the AI-powered web development tool. Here’s our experience, what impressed us, what still needs work, and why it might be the fastest way to bring a product or startup online today.
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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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Switching to Plausible: A privacy-friendly analytics tool for MarsBased
At MarsBased, we value privacy, simplicity, and open‑source tools. We replaced Google Analytics with Plausible, a lightweight, privacy‑first solution. This shift keeps us GDPR‑compliant while still providing the insights we need.
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Midudev: authenticity, community, and the human side of development
In this episode of Life on Mars, we talk with Midudev (Miguel Ángel Durán), one of the most influential creators in the Spanish-speaking tech world. A genuine conversation about authenticity, community, and the human side of programming, filled with insights, honesty, and purpose.
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How AI helped us bring back one-on-ones at MarsBased
With the help of AI, we finally solved one of our biggest management challenges at MarsBased, keeping one-on-ones consistent, meaningful, and well-documented across the team.
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Active Job Continuations: The end of lost jobs
Rails 8.1 brings a feature that's going to change how we handle long-running jobs: Active Job Continuations. Finally, we can interrupt and resume jobs without losing progress.
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Building powerful mobile apps with MarsBased
MarsBased builds cross-platform mobile apps with React Native and Ionic. See how we helped Aparcango, DPL ETT, and others launch scalable, user-friendly apps.
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Rails World 2025 Recap
MarsBased attended Rails World 2025 in Amsterdam. Here's a personal recap of the most inspiring talks, highlights, and ideas about the future of Rails.
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The power of taking a day before deciding
The power of taking a day before deciding, be calm.
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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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How we rebuilt HappyScribe’s website with a headless CMS
How we gave HappyScribe full control of their website, and made their marketing team faster than ever.
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