Guides
Practical answers for developers turning a side project into a real business.
Do I Need to Register a Company Before I Charge Money for My Side Project? (UK)
You don't need a limited company to start charging for a UK side project, but there's a specific point where registering with HMRC becomes mandatory, and a separate, genuinely judgement-based question about when incorporating is worth it.
Read guide →GDPR for a One-Person SaaS: What You Actually Need (UK)
GDPR doesn't have a "too small to matter" exemption, but it also isn't the compliance nightmare it's made out to be for a solo SaaS. Here's what actually applies, including the fee almost every solo founder misses.
Read guide →Terms of Service and Privacy Policy for an Indie App: What's Legally Load-Bearing
Most indie apps either skip legal pages entirely or paste in a generator's boilerplate. Neither works. Here's what UK law actually requires you to disclose, and what's just there to reduce arguments.
Read guide →Who Owns the Code? IP Ownership When You Build With AI Coding Tools
If Claude, Copilot or Cursor wrote a meaningful chunk of your codebase, the question of who owns it isn't fully settled, and it's a genuinely different answer in the UK than in most other countries.
Read guide →Stripe Is Live, Now What: The Compliance Checklist Nobody Tells Solo Developers
Getting Stripe wired up is the easy part. The compliance obligations that come with actually taking payment, PCI, cancellation rights, refund timing, don't show up in the integration docs.
Read guide →Do You Need Business Insurance for a Side Project That Makes Money? (UK)
Nothing forces a solo SaaS founder to buy insurance the way employing staff does, but that doesn't mean it's irrelevant. Here's what the main types actually cover and when they start earning their cost.
Read guide →From Vibe-Coded to Venture-Ready: What It Actually Takes
Shipping a working prototype and running a real business are different problems. The actual checklist: legal, compliance, hosting, marketing, and what genuinely needs doing at each stage.
Read guide →The Continuous Creation Manifesto
A working definition of Continuous Creation, the shift from software as a sequence of releases to software as a continuous, AI-assisted creation loop, and Qeetoto's own framework for it.
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