Devlog

Notes on building Qanvas: decisions, releases, and lessons.

Here we share the engineering trade-offs, architecture decisions, and commercial philosophies behind building a local-first, Bring-Your-Own-Key website builder for Next.js.

Featured Essay

• Why I Built Qanvas: The Story, the Trade-offs, and the Economics
  Founder’s essay · 26 October 2026
  Why these constraints, why local-first, why Bring-Your-Own-Key, and why pay once? An unvarnished look at the technical and economic choices behind Qanvas.