Welcome to the blog

This is mdg-labs.dev/blog — where we write about the things we build and the choices behind them.

MDG Labs is a small, independent studio (Ottensheim, Austria). We ship focused tools such as SlugBase, for bookmarks and short links, as open-core software: source on GitHub, self-hostable CE, managed Cloud when you want zero ops.

What you’ll find here

• Philosophy & product — why open-core, what we’re building, for whom
• Engineering notes — Astro, infrastructure, monorepo patterns we use in production
• Shipping updates — releases, milestones, honest “in development” status

We publish in English and German. RSS feeds are per locale (/blog/rss.xml).

Start here

Our first long-form post is Why we build open-core — the framing for everything else on this site.

For what we build today, with license and status for each product, see What we’re building now.

For the studio backstory, see About. For code, github.com/mdg-labs.