About Hardside
A software and AI studio in Portugal that started by fixing its own Rust community's problems — and kept the tools.
Hardside was born running a Rust server with its own community. Everything we sell today exists because something on that server was broken, tedious or unfair, and nobody was selling the fix: the raid alerts, the chat moderation, the website ranking, the engine that makes videos on its own.
The rule never changes: the tool first, the product second. Nothing is sold before it has run in production, and we'd rather lose a sale than overstate what something does.
Today we do the same for businesses: AI services, websites and security, at a fixed price and with the same testing and backup rules we use at home.
- Measured, not guessedBefore changing anything, we measure. Our claims come with numbers.
- Tested before it shipsOver 1,600 automated tests run before every change to our systems.
- Always a backupNothing live is changed without a backup and proof afterwards.
- No lock-inThe code and data are yours. Nothing stops working if you stop paying.
Legal identification
| Trading name | Hardside |
| Owner | Leonardo Filipe Baptista — sole trader |
| Billing details | On the Legal & terms page |
| VAT | Exempt under art. 53.º of the Portuguese VAT code |
| Contact | hello@hardside.shop |
| Country | Portugal |