Blog

• MarsBased @ MWC & 4YFN 2026
• Agents will not kill SaaS: They will circumvent it
• Trust is the ultimate success metric: We’re back with Singularu!
• The quality crisis in software
• Using Cursor as a Product Manager: faster answers, fewer pings
• Adopting JSON-LD Schema for cleaner, more powerful SEO
• On the path to ISO 27001 certification
• Defensive engineering for unhappy paths: Frontending with Detail series (part 2)
• How we prepare our board meetings with Linear
• Privacy, trust, and engineering tools: Our position at MarsBased
• How we made Plausible analytics work with ad blockers
• Everything Figma won't tell you: Frontending with detail (Part 1)
• Betting harder than ever for remote work
• Always use a .dockerignore in your projects
• Replacing jQuery with React: a pragmatic migration plan (with real estimates)
• AI code agents and Typed Languages
• Setting sail with eTech Yachting: Python, IoT, and AI on the high seas
• Why have we forbidden agentic browsers at MarsBased?
• An unforgettable journey: inside our annual Martian Day
• How we solved host VPN conflicts by running OpenVPN inside Docker containers
• React vulnerability (CVE-2025-66478): How we responded and what you should do
• Our new services structure: finding the right fit for your project
• How AI is changing the day-to-day of project managers in software teams
• Rust for NodeJS developers (V) - SQLx Integration
• How MarsBased website survived Cloudflare's global outage
• Introducing GPTApps, by MarsBased
• Building a marketing website with Vercel’s v0: Our honest experience
• Switching to Plausible: A privacy-friendly analytics tool for MarsBased
• Midudev: authenticity, community, and the human side of development
• How AI helped us bring back one-on-ones at MarsBased
• Active Job Continuations: The end of lost jobs
• Building powerful mobile apps with MarsBased
• Rails World 2025 Recap
• The power of taking a day before deciding
• Calm entrepreneurship
• Are you prepared for NIS2?
• How we rebuilt HappyScribe’s website with a headless CMS
• AI is creating MORE jobs
• Rust for NodeJS developers (IV) - SQLx CLI
• MarsBased welcomes Holafly as our new client
• Welcoming back Localistico: A long-term partnership renewed
• Quantum and AI galore at Corporate Innovation Summit 2025
• Small teams beat Goliaths
• Dreaming Languages partners with MarsBased!
• How to manage expectations in software projects
• Balance of our first year building AI projects
• MarsBased supports Mobile World Congress
• Rust for NodeJS developers (III) - Docker development environment
• Balancing creativity and business in Spain
• Mastering SaaS Spending: How to stay lean and maximize ROI
• Rust for NodeJS developers (II) - Rocket
• Rust for NodeJS developers (I) - Why and how?
• Comparison of React libraries with Tailwind CSS: Prime React, Next UI and Flowbite
• We’re now official Shopify Partners!
• Why we've added TailwindCSS to our tech stack
• Why we chose to use Strapi with Remix for our projects
• Empowering (introvert) tech teams through asynchronous work
• Candidates priorities are changing
• Thank you, Startup Digest community!
• Forcing New Service Instance Creation. Overriding Dependency Injection in Angular
• What we're working on in 2024
• Scale IoT backends horizontally with MQTT Shared Subscriptions
• Our take on remote work
• Recap of the Corporate Innovation Summit 2024
• Comparison of MQTT Brokers for IoT
• MarsBased at ISE 2024
• Image optimization, delivery and CLS
• Welcome back, Gespasa!
• Summary of our conversation with Keyven Ferland, around e-commerce and Shopify
• Our weekly internal digest: Martian Chronicles
• Bootstrapped businesses, async & remote with Amir Salihefendic (CEO @ Doist)
• Recap of the third year of the Life on Mars podcast
• New website!
• Moving from Active Storage to Shrine
• Passing the baton of our community projects
• Using LLaMA.cpp models in Ruby
• Query data from PostgreSQL to represent it in a time series graph
• Betting hard on async
• We're riding (yet) another winter
• Use GoLang code in Ruby
• Iterating on pull requests - don't squash commits!
• Comparing LocomotiveCMS and WordPress
• MySQL deferred constraints and unique checks
• Remember to vacuum your databases!
• Personalism vs. professionalism
• How to create icons correctly aligned with the text
• Speeding up views rendering in Rails 4
• Can't believe this is happening
• How to implement Cuprite into Capybara
• Font Awesome social share buttons are blocked by AdBlock? Here's how to go around it
• Celebrating with Martian Breakfasts!
• We've updated our handbook to include our new development workflow
• The importance of saying NO
• Be more available to the rest of the team
• We've adopted Linear for project (and company) management!
• Thank you 2021 (???!?!?!)
• Changes to our Startups Barcelona Slack community
• Launched the Startup Genome Global Startup Ecosystem Report 2021
• Audit the code you inherit
• New season of the Life on Mars podcast!
• Official statement regarding the next Startup Grind Barcelona events
• There's a lot we don't need
• A few hard truths about remote work
• What we're up to now - Reflections on the first half of 2021
• Remote is the new cloud
• Not taking decisions is frustrating
• One year of Life on Mars: how to start listening to our podcast
• A small trick to help you estimate the size of a site
• Beating the virus: lessons from our seventh year running MarsBased
• How to generate TypeScript types and React hooks from GraphQL queries
• From Valencia to the stars! We've partnered with Singularu!
• Hiring more Martians!
• Good to see you back, Rundit!
• What's up?
• All the 2020 episodes of Life on Mars, the MarsBased podcast
• What a cool thing we're building!
• A breakdown of 2020: what a ride!
• Experiments in summer
• The Martian way
• A cleaner implementation of Schema.org using JSON
• This is what we do
• It's OK to be vulnerable
• Boost your shop sales using an e-commerce solution like Shopify!
• This is what we learnt hosting two webinars per week
• Our Life on Mars podcast is live on iTunes and Spotify!
• Launching our podcast: Life on Mars!
• Growing our brand: the MarsBased newsletter
• Building a Ruby CLI with Thor
• Six years grinding: How to manage your events and community
• No office, no investors, no worries - six years of learnings
• Some things you can do as a company to give back to your community
• Drawing areas using SVG paths
• Two events to learn how to do remote work the right way
• How to make your remote working experience better
• Recap of the Corporate Innovation Summit 2020
• Official statement regarding Startup Grind Barcelona events during the MWC week
• How I use Docker for Rails development: running services
• Three events you can't miss during Mobile World Congress / 4 Years From Now
• Functional core, imperative shell
• Our New Year resolutions for 2020
• Our Open Source projects
• The impact of a good post on social media
• How we helped DPL ETT to grow their business with our mobile apps
• What a long strange trip it's been: our 2019 in review
• Thank you 2019!
• Less is more: stepping down from Startup Grind Andorra
• This is how I plan my schedule for big conferences like Websummit as attendee
• Introducing the MarsBased Employee Handbook!
• Reduce everything! Explaining the Reduce function
• Announcing a partnership with Startup Genome
• S3 versioning and lifecycles
• My favourite talks of FullStackFest 2019!
• Our Vies Verdes mobile app has been awarded!
• Everything we know about company culture
• Maintaining company culture in remote environments
• Leading by example: transmitting company culture in your organisation
• Our company culture helps us to hire faster and better. Here's how!
• The challenges and needs of logistics companies in 2019
• How we came up with our company culture
• Here's (almost) everything we have learnt in our first five years
• Expanding our Node.js team
• How we organise our company retreats
• Our curated Angular reference guide
• Comparing the three Angular view encapsulation methods
• One year of the MarsBased newsletter: data, learnings and lots of unknowns
• Learn about the story of MarsBased in these events!
• Three years curating Startup BCN, Barcelona's biggest online community for startups, entrepreneurs and freelancers
• Change detection strategy in Angular
• We've joined the board of Catalonia Logistics
• Optimising asset compilation during deployment
• A team bonding activity for remote teams using Spotify
• We are hiring (Rails developers) again!
• An alternative to Active Storage: Shrine
• Venturing into developing our own product
• How to run Shopify apps locally (ngrok vs. Serveo comparison)
• Meet us at Mobile World Congress / 4 Years From Now!
• How I manage my email (no, it's not a 'how I achieve inbox zero' story)
• Bespoke development as an alternative to Wordpress
• Looking back to 2018: our fifth year in review
• MarsBased loves React
• MarsBased loves Node.js
• Our 2019 resolutions!
• How we interview developers
• Thank you (and see you in 2019)!
• The importance of service providers in corporate venturing
• Going for Martian Tapas with our distributed development team
• Introduction to Kubernetes
• My tips for public speaking for tech people
• Presenting the Startup Grind Tech Conference 2018
• How do you know if your remote employees are working?
• Are you really working on what matters? Get off everyone else's wishlist
• JSBits #6: Lerna vs. Yarn workspaces
• JSBits #5: Loop statements: 'for..in' vs 'for..of'
• How to set up a React + Parcel boilerplate project
• JSBits #4: Comparison operator
• JSBits #3: 10 things to remember
• JSBits #2: Return more than one value
• JSBits #1: My favourite ES6 syntax
• JSBits #0: an introduction to JavaScript modules
• #noshortcuts
• We've joined the Catalonia Logistics business cluster
• 10 tips to get more development gigs
• Company retreat 2018: Dublin
• Dealing with memory leaks in ReactiveX
• We shot for the stars and we landed on Mars (lessons learnt in our fourth year)
• Presenting our new looks and a shiny new newsletter
• How to build a Node.js API (part two)
• How to improve self-confidence when writing code
• How to build a Node.js API (part one)
• The importance of a step back to find quick wins
• I'm an office manager in an officeless company, so... what am I supposed to do?
• Our new year's resolutions for 2018
• Testing new frameworks & languages: how to separate the grain from the chaff
• Client side file uploads with Amazon S3
• Spaces & MarsBased join forces in an intergalactic partnership
• Expanding the team again: looking for a fullstack developer
• We're not a startup: we're a lifestyle business (and we love it)
• So, do you guys do only Ruby for the backend?
• How to find and hire developers for your company
• Three years running our first business: lessons learnt
• How to maintain company culture with remote teams
• Why does your startup not need a CTO (just yet)
• How to make the most of a development bootcamp
• Here's how we use Basecamp to manage our teams remotely
• How to do agile prototyping using static pages to reduce development time
• Our new year's resolutions for 2017
• Looking back to 2016: a year of consolidation for MarsBased
• How we created our own frontend framework: MarsMan (and why)
• Five reasons why you should attend next year's EuRuKo
• Curating the best newsletter for startups and entrepreneurs: Startup Digest
• What is the best Ruby on Rails CMS?
• Five reasons why our clients love Ruby on Rails for their apps
• Four things we do to reduce the time to market of your app
• How to create a fast, secure, and SEO-oriented landing page for free
• How we upgraded an obsolete Ruby on Rails application with lots of legacy code (part 1)
• We don't need a CEO (lessons learnt in two years running a development consultancy)
• If you're not writing, you're losing sales: here's the why and how of blogging for business
• The MarsBased SEO guidelines
• A new website and four things you should know about MarsBased
• Expanding the MarsBased team (again)
• Our new year's resolutions for 2016
• Looking back to 2015: a year from out of this world
• How to build CSS grids: floats vs inline blocks
• How to handle client work remotely: our communication Stack
• The MarsBased CSS & HTML guidelines
• Presenting the Barcelona Startups community on Slack
• Code refactoring: when, why and who
• Five reasons why your company should organise an event
• How to create a blogging strategy for your company
• Working remotely from Berlin
• Our six tips for working remotely
• How to create a damn good blog post
• Lessons learnt: one year running our own business
• An internship out of this world
• Our new year's resolutions for 2015
• Our first christmas dinner
• Dealing with your first hire in a distributed team
• The MarsBased team grows bigger: the abduction
• The Martians conquer the IronHack
• Sport on Rails - How do we keep fit at MarsBased
• Barcelona Startup Map (part 2)
• Barcelona Startup Map (part 1)
• Celebrating the first Martian Year
• How we make the right app for you (part 2)
• How we make the right app for you (part 1)
• MarsBased conquered the Startup Grind
• Startup Circle in Barcelona
• Fail. Learn. Change. Evolve.
• Cookin.me: where all your recipes want to be!
• Take-offs and landings