Notes from Pattform on building, hosting and running digital products, the patterns we reuse, and what we learned building them.https://www.pattform.io/en-nzhttps://www.pattform.io/blog/introducing-partplanner/https://www.pattform.io/blog/introducing-partplanner/PartPlanner is Pattform's first product, an app that helps people who build and flip PCs track their parts, plan builds from real stock, and work out part-out margins. It is live, already used by people in the US, UK and Canada, and built to run lean so it stays cheap to operate as it grows.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProjectsCosthttps://www.pattform.io/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-an-app/https://www.pattform.io/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-an-app/There is no single price. It comes down to your must-haves: payments, AI features, design, marketing? And whether you build a web app, one codebase for phones and desktops that is cheaper to run, or a slicker native app per device. A focused first version, built fast with AI, costs far less than building everything.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTPartnershipsCosthttps://www.pattform.io/blog/how-we-scale-services-to-zero/https://www.pattform.io/blog/how-we-scale-services-to-zero/Scaling to zero means a service shuts all the way down when no one is using it, so it costs nothing while idle, and starts back up on the first request. We build for it with Google Cloud Run, which scales to zero for us, and a GraalVM native image that boots in milliseconds so that first request is not slow.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringCosthttps://www.pattform.io/blog/why-we-build-static-websites/https://www.pattform.io/blog/why-we-build-static-websites/A static site is built once into plain HTML files and served straight from a CDN, with no server or database running between a visitor and the page. For a small business site that means it loads fast, has almost nothing to hack, and costs very little to host, because there is no always-on server to pay for.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTEngineeringCost