What I learned shipping a Next.js 15 + CSV side project
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I shipped a small side project this year: sweepbase.net, a comparison site for crypto debit and credit cards. 139 cards, no DB, the whole dataset is one CSV file in the repo. Here are the things I'd actually tell another dev about it. CSV beats a DB more often than people admit The whole catalog is data.csv, parsed at boot, validated with Zod. Reads outnumber writes by something like 10,000 to 1, and most "writes" are me fixing a number once a month. For that load profile, a databa