Tech Stack

The stack we build on. Boring. Fast. Yours.

Every Minuswires project ships on the same set of battle-tested tools — chosen for performance, hireability, and the freedom to walk away with your code if you ever want to.

Why this stack

Three principles, no exceptions.

Boring stack, sharp execution

No experimental frameworks. No proprietary lock-in. Tools battle-tested by Vercel, Stripe, Notion, and the New York Times. If it goes sideways, the docs and the talent pool exist.

You own the code

Every project ships to your GitHub. We hand over keys on day one. If you want to bring development in-house in a year, the runway is there.

Brand Base is included, not sold

Our growth platform is wired into every project we ship. Not an upsell, not a separate license. The same tools we use to grow our own business, running on yours.

What we use, layer by layer.

Every tool below earned its spot by shipping in production for real businesses — not because it was new on Hacker News.

Layer 01

Frontend

What your customers see

Next.js 15

Server-rendered React with the App Router — fast first paints, perfect SEO, no client-side waterfalls.

React 19

The library every other component framework copies. Stable, fast, and hireable if you ever need to bring it in-house.

TypeScript

Catches entire categories of bugs at build time, before your customers ever see them.

Tailwind CSS

Atomic styling that ships less CSS to the browser. Sites stay fast as they grow.

Framer Motion

The animation library that makes interactions feel intentional, not gimmicky.

Layer 02

Data & Backend

Where your business lives

Supabase (Postgres 17)

Real Postgres — not a NoSQL toy. Row-level security, real-time, and you can hire any DBA in the world.

Edge Functions

Serverless Node/TypeScript at the network edge. Sub-100ms response times globally.

Sentry

Errors get caught, attributed, and traced before customers tell you something is broken.

Layer 03

Hosting & Delivery

How it gets to the world

Vercel

Built by the team that builds Next.js. Atomic deploys, instant rollback, zero ops overhead.

Global CDN

Static assets served from the closest edge to every visitor. Sparta to Sydney in under 200ms.

Cloudinary / Supabase Storage

Images served as AVIF/WebP, sized for the device, cached for a year. CLS goes to zero.

Layer 04

Brand Base

Our proprietary growth layer

AI search optimization

Schema, llms.txt, and entity graphs wired in from day one — for Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Bing Copilot.

Lead scoring + pipeline

Every form submission scored, attributed, and routed. No leads lost in inbox queues.

Live growth dashboard

Traffic, conversions, and revenue in one view. No GA4 spelunking.

Editorial calendar + content engine

AI-assisted draft generation tied to your real keyword opportunities.

What we don't use

The shortlist of things you won't find on a Minuswires site.

WordPress + 47 plugins

Plugin sprawl is the #1 source of slow sites and security incidents. Custom code beats it on every metric.

Squarespace / Wix / Webflow

Fine for hobby sites. Not fine when your forms break and you have no way to fix them at 11pm on a Sunday.

jQuery and legacy build tools

It's 2026. Modern frameworks render faster, ship less code, and are easier to maintain.

Framework-of-the-month

We use stable, widely-adopted tools. If a framework has fewer than 100k weekly downloads, it's not going on your project.

Want to see this stack in action?

Book a free 15-minute call. We'll show you a live site we built on this exact stack and how Brand Base is wired into it.