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I Founded a Legal Entity for My Side Project. Then I Dissolved It.
Most side projects stay informal forever. EventSpotter briefly had a registered legal entity, a board of directors, and its own bank account. Here's why we formed it, why we dissolved it, and why the project is doing just fine.
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Andreas SchöngruberMarch 1, 2026·5 min read
SBÄM Fest 2023: Great Bands, Questionable Everything Else
We spent two days at the SBÄM Fest 2023 at Pichlingersee in Linz. The lineup delivered. The organisation, the pricing, and the so-called 'cashless system'? Not so much.
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Andreas SchöngruberJune 7, 2023·3 min read
How a One-Line Bug Cost Me $159 in a Single Night
I deployed a small change to my Spring Boot service on ECS, went to bed, and woke up to 10 budget alert emails. Here's what happened, how 238 GB of logs appeared overnight, and what I now have in place to stop it happening again.
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Andreas SchöngruberJune 23, 2022·4 min read