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Lean Engineering & SaaS Insights

Practical guides on cutting SaaS costs, lean alternatives, Next.js development, and applied AI workflows — written by the GoMinify team.

5 Intercom Alternatives That Save Founders $100+/mo

Intercom is powerful — but at $130–$450/mo it's one of the first things lean startups cut. Here are 5 vetted alternatives we've migrated clients to.

A step-by-step breakdown of our Sprint 01 process: from project brief to production deployment. What we build, what we skip, and why.

You don't need $500/mo in LLM infrastructure to build great AI search. Here's the lean stack we use: pgvector, Supabase, and the OpenAI API.

A practical 4-step process for identifying and eliminating SaaS bloat — including the exact tools we recommend and what we've seen work in practice.

We've migrated 4 clients off HubSpot to Close CRM this year. Here's what you gain, what you lose, and when it makes sense to switch.

Google's Manifest V3 broke a lot of legacy extensions. Here's our current production setup for building compliant, fast MV3 extensions.

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