0.05 — Blog
Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
The subscription was the answer to a problem that no longer exists. Four models replacing it, and why we chose the most boring one.
Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Our full model on one page: software is $0, infrastructure is passed through at cost, zero margin. The math and the uncomfortable questions, answered.
Jul 11, 2026 · 2 min read
A $5 VPS, three commands, and your own software running. The gap between 'install' and 'subscribe' has never been this small.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Bitly charges $35 a month. We did the full math of serving redirects and analytics. The numbers, without blushing.
Jul 7, 2026 · 2 min read
You used to buy a CD and the software was yours. Today you rent your own work tools, month after month, with no exit date. How it happened and how it ends.
Jul 5, 2026 · 2 min read
Free is a price. Libre is a right. The difference defines who owns your company's tools.
Jul 3, 2026 · 2 min read
A project manager is a database, a drag-and-drop UI and a login. We take the SaaS price apart, piece by piece.
Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min read
You pay $30 to move cards, $50 to store contacts, $12 to shorten a link. Not for the software — out of habit. That ends now.
Jun 26, 2026 · 2 min read
We break down Bitly's paid plan item by item and set it next to the real cost of serving redirects. The gap isn't engineering — it's margin.
Jun 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Next.js, SQLite and a route handler that responds in milliseconds. No Redis, no Kafka, no microservices. This is what an honest shortener looks like.
Jun 24, 2026 · 3 min read
Link's analytics need no cookies, no JavaScript and no fingerprinting. Everything we know about a click comes from the HTTP request the browser was going to send anyway.
Jun 22, 2026 · 2 min read
QR is an open standard since 1994: ISO/IEC 18004, patents waived by its inventor. Generating one costs zero compute. Charging for it as a premium feature is an abuse — Link includes it.
Jun 21, 2026 · 2 min read
Linear is probably the best issue tracker ever built: speed, keyboard-first, cycles. The only problem is the per-seat bill. That's why we're building Track. Q4 2026.
Jun 19, 2026 · 3 min read
HubSpot charges you more the bigger your database gets. But a contact is a row that costs bytes to store. Your contacts are yours — and leaving should take minutes, not a migration project.
Jun 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Twelve dollars a month to show your availability: a calendar and a form. The tax on booking meetings exists because nobody seriously questioned it. Until now.
Jun 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Incomplete exports, proprietary formats, integrations that break, prices that scale with your success. These aren't accidents: they're the strategy.
Jun 15, 2026 · 3 min read
Portability isn't a premium feature: it's a right. Every Zerosoftware product ships with complete export in JSON, CSV and API from day one. Here's the test to prove it.
Jun 13, 2026 · 2 min read
It's not laziness: passwords are the weakest link in modern security, and delegating login means delegating it to whoever does it best. The trade-offs, no spin.
Jun 12, 2026 · 2 min read
The most deployed database on the planet runs in your phone, your browser and, yes, in Link. Millions of rows without drama, WAL mode, and backups that are a file copy.
Jun 10, 2026 · 2 min read
A VPS costs $5. A GB of storage costs cents. Bandwidth comes by the terabyte. All of this is public — and it's exactly what SaaS doesn't want you to add up.
Jun 9, 2026 · 3 min read
Nobody brags about their power generator. Nobody should brag about their CRM. When something commoditizes, the price falls to marginal cost — and that's great news for users.
Jun 7, 2026 · 3 min read
The code is open, the roadmap is public, and this blog ships in three languages. Here's how to get involved: issues, PRs, translations, documentation, and product ideas.
Jun 6, 2026 · 3 min read
Link is live. Track, CRM, and Cal are next. We publish the whole roadmap — quarters and criteria included — because users are partners, not an audience.
Jun 4, 2026 · 3 min read
Our site has no colors, no stock photos, no gradient hero. It has one giant zero made of zeros. That's an engineering decision, not an aesthetic one.
Jun 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Per-seat pricing is a tax on growth: every person you hire makes your tools more expensive. The real cost is infrastructure, not chairs.
Jun 1, 2026 · 3 min read
No stored IPs, no cookies, no user profiles. This is the Zerosoftware privacy manifesto: what we don't collect, and why that's the whole point.
May 30, 2026 · 2 min read
What used to take a team six months now takes days. Link was built exactly like that. When the cost of building software collapses, the price has to follow.
May 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Linux, Postgres, nginx, Kubernetes: the world already runs on open source. The only layer that stayed proprietary is the one users touch. That last mile is what we are here to close.
May 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Link's public v1 API is fully documented at /docs, endpoint by endpoint. It's not a nice-to-have: it's our anti-lock-in guarantee.
May 25, 2026 · 3 min read
Think five years ahead: all work software is free and the cloud is billed at cost. What happens to IT budgets, to vendors, and to innovation itself?