Engineering notes,
build logs, half-thoughts.
- 01
How I price £10,000 builds (and why founders keep paying it)
Pricing high ticket dev work in the UK is not about hours. It is about outcomes, speed and the cost of getting it wrong twice.
Apr 2026Salekh Ventures - 02
One senior freelance Next.js dev or a London agency? Read this first
Choosing between a solo senior engineer and a UK product agency comes down to who actually writes the code at 11pm on a Thursday.
Mar 2026Salekh Ventures - 03
My production stack in 2026: Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Stripe, Clerk
The stack I ship every UK SaaS build on, why each piece earned its place, and the ones I keep getting asked about but refuse to use.
Feb 2026Salekh Ventures - 04
Six weeks, fixed price, fixed scope. What the Build engagement actually looks like
The exact week by week shape of a £10k fixed price build for a UK founder. Scope call to handover, with the bits I never used to publish.
Jan 2026Salekh Ventures - 05
Building Vision Bank: digital banking from zero in fourteen weeks
A short case study on shipping a digital bank front end and ops platform end to end with one senior engineer and a regulated brief.
Dec 2025Salekh Ventures - 06
Why every UK SaaS founder should bake Claude into the product (properly)
AI features sell rounds. AI features that earn their place in the product earn revenue. Here is how I integrate Claude into UK SaaS builds without it being a gimmick.
Nov 2025Salekh Ventures