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Why choosing a web developer in Vevey or French-speaking Switzerland changes your project: proximity, responsiveness, real understanding of the Swiss market. Let's talk about your idea.
13 articles
Web & SaaS development
What I learn building web products for partners in Switzerland. Choosing a provider, taking over a shaky project, shipping fast without breaking everything. No corporate speak.
What you'll find here
I'm an independent developer based in Vevey, Switzerland, and most projects that reach me don't start from a blank page. There is already a prototype, a previous provider, some AI-generated code, and one simple question behind it all. Will it hold the day real users show up? These articles answer the questions people ask me before signing. How to tell whether your code is healthy, what to ask your developer, when to build on an existing codebase instead of starting over, agency or independent. You'll also find my technical write-ups on Next.js, i18n and AI in production, with the numbers and the failures.
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An American company hires me as an embedded engineer on a project that is 90% done. Ten days later, we stop by mutual agreement. A forward deployed engineering post-mortem from the contractor side, with the 5 mistakes I made.- Published on
How to properly take a no-code or vibe-coded project into your own hands: the concrete steps, from the honest inventory to the audit, for a product that finally holds up.- Published on
Agency or freelancer to build a SaaS? The honest comparison you actually need (price, dependency, quality) and how to choose a technical partner in French-speaking Switzerland.- Published on
For the past few weeks, I've had Nami, Sanji, Zoro, Chopper, Usopp, Robin, Franky, Jimbei and Brook on my team. Welcome to AI agent orchestration, where each crew member has their role, their expertise, and their library. What changes isn't just my productivity. It's my entire way of building a product.- Published on
Most PMs and decision-makers don't ask their tech providers the right questions. Not because they're incompetent, but because nobody taught them what to watch for. Here are the questions that change everything.- Published on
Entire projects generated by AI, delivered by non-technical people convinced it worked. Then reality hits: unexplainable bugs, security flaws, unmaintainable code. A firsthand account of what I actually discover when I look under the hood.- Published on
Final episode of the series. What AI does well, what it doesn't, and what it concretely changes when you're an independent developer. An honest look at the future of the profession. Episode 7/7.
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A prototype that keeps cracking, code inherited from a previous provider, a product to industrialise. Send me your repo and I'll tell you honestly what holds and what doesn't.