A few notes on "Building AXIS: what shipping GoBD-compliant SaaS as a solo really looks like." — written from active practice, not from the textbook.
Architecture decisions, compliance constraints and the real cost of serving German SMBs. Honest notes from 12 months of development.
Background
The hard part is rarely the idea — it is holding discipline over weeks. That is what decides whether the result becomes a system or a pile of artefacts.
Key decisions
- Fix the constraints first, derive the options second — never the other way around.
- Verify one assumption per iteration, not ten at once.
- If it cannot be measured, it does not belong in the brief.
Approach
What I have learned from real projects: smaller steps, shorter loops, making trade-offs visible early. That saves more time than any tooling tweak ever will.
If this overlaps with what you are wrestling with, write — I welcome concrete questions far more than general comments.