It will be a short story about a side project that grew from a simple question: why does HR software charge per user instead of a flat monthly price? Most HR tools - BambooHR, Personio, Factorial - bill per employee, so every hire pushes your invoice up. After 15+ years in backend development - PHP, Laravel, Symfony, WHMCS - I decided to build my own answer in my free time. The result is HREvio, an HR platform for small EU teams with one fixed monthly price and no per-user fees. I shipped the MVP in about 4 months, working evenings and weekends.