Stories from the diary

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• Kupci — from trust problem to business platform ↗

  How Kupci went from noticing a trust gap in Balkan online reviews to building a full digital ecosystem for local businesses across Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.

• Kupci — designing the architecture ↗

  The engineering behind Kupci: a modular monolith in PHP + Symfony, a Next.js + React frontend geo-routed at the edge, PostgreSQL / OpenSearch / Redis, async queues, a self-feeding scraper + budget-capped LLM enrichment pipeline, Kubernetes autoscaling, Terraform, and CI/CD — built to scale across the Balkans without a rewrite.