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Aug 23, 2026

5 min read

Five Years of Maladeta Studio: What Building Software in the Pyrenees Taught Us

Five years after founding the studio in Val d'Aran, an honest look back at what we built, what we didn't plan, and what still hasn't gotten easier.

Aug 16, 2026

7 min read

Teaching a Machine to Speak Aranese

Two unconnected efforts at Maladeta Studio are trying to give a language of 35,000 speakers a place in AI. Here's what's real, what works, and what isn't reconciled yet.

Aug 7, 2026

6 min read

Building a Digital Twin of Val d'Aran

Inside aran-twin: a geospatial digital twin of the valley we work in, built from terrain, weather, avalanche data, and drone-captured Gaussian splats.

Jul 17, 2026

5 min read

Beyond Software: Building nautaran, a GIS Platform for Municipal Infrastructure

Maladeta's first B2G product: a multi-tenant GIS platform for town councils, built on PostGIS, row-level security and offline field tools.

Jun 19, 2026

3 min read

Predicting Tides for Water-Sports Safety: A Small, Obsessively Accurate Microservice

Inside tides-service, the internal FastAPI microservice we built to predict astronomical tides — and why it deliberately doesn't tell you the whole story.

Apr 10, 2026

4 min read

Orchestrating WhatsApp and email at scale: building our own communications engine

Why we built a shared, event-driven engine to route every WhatsApp and email message across our products instead of solving delivery N times.

Feb 13, 2026

3 min read

Why We Build an MCP Server for Almost Everything

Across Lueira, Ringover, and our marketplace, the same pattern keeps winning: small typed tools over MCP beat one-off integrations.

Dec 12, 2025

4 min read

Two Years of an AI Agent in Production: What Actually Works for Small Businesses

Two years after launching an AI agent on WhatsApp, an honest look at what works, what surprised us, and where a human still has to step in.

Oct 10, 2025

3 min read

Channel managers and marketplaces: the integration problem nobody warns you about

Why Lueira's channel manager is harder than it looks: keeping availability consistent across marketplaces you don't control.

Aug 8, 2025

3 min read

From SnowTeach to a Generic Marketplace: RocRoi, KayakGrandTour, NaturaAdventour

Two and a half years after SnowTeach's open question, one Go + Ent + Directus + Next.js core now runs three outdoor marketplace brands.

Jun 13, 2025

3 min read

One Booking Engine, Five Sports: Adapting Lueira Across Verticals

How Lueira's booking model stretched from ski schools to wine tastings, and where the abstraction held and where it didn't.

Apr 11, 2025

5 min read

Digital signatures and legal documents: eIDAS in practice

Why a waiver signed in ten seconds at a rental counter still needs to hold up in court, and what eIDAS actually gives you.

Feb 14, 2025

4 min read

A platform for rural talent: why recruitment needed its own product

We know the rural hiring problem from both sides. We're not sure yet if it's a product, but we're building something.

Dec 12, 2024

4 min read

Building Lueira Team: what mountain guides need from a mobile app, not what we assumed

Lueira Team is instructors' app, not owners' or customers' — and it needed a completely different design than the rest of Lueira.

Oct 18, 2024

4 min read

Beyond Forecasts: Aggregating Government Weather Alerts for Outdoor Safety

Why we built a small internal service to normalize fragmented government weather alerts for our outdoor products, and how it fails on purpose.

Aug 16, 2024

5 min read

E-invoicing law in Spain and what it means for small businesses

Spain is moving toward mandatory verifiable e-invoicing. Here's why that's harder than a PDF button, and how Lueira absorbs it for you.

Jun 11, 2024

5 min read

Teaching an AI Agent to Actually Book Things: Function-Calling in Production

How we make an LLM propose bookings for Lueira's WhatsApp agent while the real booking engine keeps final say over every action.

Mar 8, 2024

4 min read

Why We Put an AI Agent on WhatsApp Instead of Building Another App

Why Lueira's AI agent lives on WhatsApp instead of a new app: meeting mountain sports schools' customers where they already book.

Dec 7, 2023

4 min read

Multi-tenant from day one: architecture decisions behind Lueira

Why we designed tenant isolation, identity and customization into Lueira's architecture from the first commit, not after the fact.

Sep 13, 2023

5 min read

Real-time availability: the hard problem behind every booking system

Availability isn't a stored flag. It's a live aggregate over five sources of truth that can all change in the same second.

Jun 14, 2023

3 min read

Designing a booking engine for mountain sports schools

Why booking a ski lesson isn't like booking a hotel room, and how Lueira's booking engine keeps instructors, gear and slots in sync.

Mar 10, 2023

5 min read

From bespoke projects to a product: why we built Lueira

The founding story of Lueira: why we bet the studio on turning bespoke experience into an actual product.

Dec 5, 2022

3 min read

SnowTeach: Our First Marketplace, and What It Taught Us

Building SnowTeach taught us a marketplace isn't just software with two logins — it's two sets of needs, a trust problem, and a chicken-and-egg problem.

Sep 14, 2022

4 min read

What Val d'Aran by UTMB Taught Us About Safety-Critical Software

A season working with a real ultra-trail race changed how we think about false alarms, testing, and being on call when decisions can't be undone.

Jun 15, 2022

4 min read

The architecture behind MeteoTrail: aggregating stations, webcams and lightning in real time

How MeteoTrail merges agency forecasts, webcams and lightning data per checkpoint, and when a human report overrides the automation.

Mar 20, 2022

4 min read

Why Ultra-Trail Races Need Real-Time Weather, Not Forecasts

A single mountain-range forecast can't tell a race director what's happening at a 2,500m checkpoint. That gap is why we built MeteoTrail.

Dec 10, 2021

3 min read

Year one: lessons from running a tech studio outside a big city

Twelve months running a software studio from a Pyrenean valley: civic projects, a first product, and honest trade-offs.

Aug 20, 2021

4 min read

Digitizing a Valley: Parking, Mobility and Waste in Val d'Aran

Not every project is a flashy product. Some of the most useful software we've built is parking and waste infrastructure for a mountain valley.

May 10, 2021

4 min read

Building NaturPark: managing natural spaces with modular software

Why we designed NaturPark as a set of toggle-able modules instead of one rigid app for every protected area we work with.

Feb 15, 2021

4 min read

Why We Started a Software Studio in the Pyrenees

The founding story of Maladeta Studio: why we built a custom software studio in the Val d'Aran instead of a big city.

Nov 20, 2020

5 min read

Apple M1: the jump to ARM and what it means for the industry

Apple begins its move to in-house silicon with the M1: unified memory, performance per watt, Rosetta 2, and a deeper problem for Intel.