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What we learn from doing projects: no-filler articles, opinions worth debating, a dictionary for spotting hot air and tips to steal. Help yourself.

How to choose a web agency in Barcelona without buying hot air: 10 questions
Featured · Method · 6 min

How to choose a web agency in Barcelona without buying hot air: 10 questions

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Method · 9 min

How much does a website cost in Barcelona? Real prices in 2026

Anywhere from €600 to well over €60,000: a range so wide it is only useful if we tell you what sits inside each number.…

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Technology · 4 min

Writing well in Catalan should not depend on a subscription

In January 2025 LanguageTool put its checker behind a paywall. The engine was still free software, so we put the pieces back together: our…

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Technology · 5 min

A voting compass should not tell you how to vote

A percentage is not an answer: it is a hidden decision. This is how we built quivoto — 947 municipalities, 39 sources, zero cookies…

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Technology · 7 min

From 88 to 50,899 visitors in ten days: the eclipsi.info numbers

We published a free tool, the press recommended it and the server absorbed 570,865 requests in one hour. This is what the data says.…

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Technology · 2 min

eclipsi.info: the website that tells you which eclipse you’ll see from your exact location

The totality path isn't enough: the terrain and a very low Sun can change everything. That's how we've turned that question into an open-ended…

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Technology · 5 min

Automate this (and stop paying for it in hours)

There's work that shows up on no invoice and eats two working days a month: copying, pasting, forwarding… Four integrations to switch it off.

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Ideas · 5 min

The SEO that works in 2026 is boring (and that’s why it works)

No magic keywords, no link farms, no AI by the truckload. What climbs in Google is slow, methodical and won't fuel a viral thread.

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Ideas · 5 min

Your website doesn’t need more sections. It needs fewer.

We audit websites every week and the pattern repeats: they want to say everything and end up saying nothing. The cure isn't adding; it's…

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Method · 4 min

We don’t sell hot air here: how we write proposals (and why they get signed)

Price on page two, checkable milestones and what it does NOT include, in writing. The three rules that get our proposals signed in days,…

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Technology · 4 min

It’s not Cloudflare: it’s LALIGA. Why your website goes wrong when Barça plays.

IP-level blocking took down legitimate sites on match days. What happened, why Cloudflare is not to blame, and which architecture decisions leave you room…

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Opinions worth debating · you vote

A website with no analytics is decoration.

Nobody was ever saved by a homepage carousel.

One client who tells you "I don't like it" beats ten who say "we'll look into it".

If what makes you different is "quality and trust", nothing makes you different.

Posting every day with nothing to say is spam with good intentions.

A new logo won't fix what the product breaks.

A no-hot-air dictionary · work in progress
Synergynoun · hot air

A word people use when they don't know what to say. If you hear it three times in one meeting, grab your wallet and run.

Rebrandingnoun · sometimes hot air

Changing everything so that nothing changes. 60% of the time what was needed was better writing, not a redraw.

Communitynoun · often hot air

What they call your followers when they want to charge you more. Community is when they reply to you, not when they follow you.

Disruptiveadjective · premium hot air

An adjective slapped on ordinary things to charge extraordinary prices. A fast website isn't disruptive: it's the bare minimum.

Aimnoun · ours

Saying one thing, to the right person, at the right moment. Everything else in this dictionary exists to avoid it.

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Steal this from us · tips with permission to use
Copy

The coffee test: read your headline out loud. If you'd never say it over coffee with a client, don't write it on your website.

Web

The 2-click rule: from any page to "buy/contact" in 2 clicks max. Count them now — you're in for a surprise.

Social

3>7: three good posts beat seven of filler. Plan the month in 40 minutes with three roles: teach, prove, connect.