octabits

Production software, and the open tools underneath it.

Reynt, a multi-tenant booking SaaS in production. octaflow, a durable workflow engine that runs on the Postgres you already have. A cert-manager solver holding up other people’s wildcard certificates. One architect, twenty-five years in.

  • Stuttgart, Germany
  • 25+ years
  • Architecture & full-stack
  • MIT · Apache-2.0

Products

What we build

Reynt is a multi-tenant rental and booking SaaS running in production — thirteen packages, four APIs, three frontends, architected and written end to end by one person working with AI agents. The reusable parts of it are extracted, published and maintained as open source.

Engagements

Work with us

Architecture reviews, greenfield system design, and hands-on full-stack delivery — TypeScript, .NET, Kotlin, Go, Kubernetes. Most recently a cross-state public-sector platform for three German states. Available for selected engagements, remote or around Stuttgart.

How we work

Three things that decide most of it.

Constraints over conventions

Tenant isolation enforced by row-level security, not by remembering a WHERE clause. Framework code kept out of the domain by a test that fails when it creeps in. The rule you can break is not a rule.

Boring infrastructure

A durable workflow engine that needs only the Postgres you already run. A static site with no analytics and no cookie banner. Every dependency is an operational commitment — most of them are not worth it.

Honest documentation

Every project here ships a "when not to use this" section and a comparison table that names what it loses to the alternatives. Trust is built by being right about your own weaknesses.

Got a system that needs an architect?

Reviews, designs, or building the thing outright. Mail is the fastest way through.