How we built mantek.io for the price of a domain (opens in new tab)

The site you're reading costs us almost nothing to run. There's no server invoice, no hosting bill, no monthly platform fee — just the domain name, renewed once a year. Everything else runs on infrastructure that's free at our scale and fast everywhere in the world. That isn't a corner we cut. It's a set of deliberate choices — static output, edge delivery, git as the backbone — that happen to be cheaper and faster and simpler than the alternative. Here's the whole stack, and the thinking beh...