Lawpair Fullstack Platform
Guillaume Derivery
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Posted Jan 16, 2026
Developed and launched Lawpair's full-stack platform using MERN and AWS.
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Nov 15, 2025 - Dec 20, 2025
LawPair Fullstack Platform
I helped Lawpair's founding team to bring this project to life.
They had a pretty good idea of what kind of product they wanted when they reached out to me, including design materials and a bit of code.
Public website: https://lawpair.com/
Server-side public search: https://app.lawpair.com/ss/search
Sitemap: https://app.lawpair.com/sitemap.xml
Login: https://app.lawpair.com/client/auth/login
A bit of documentation
Just enough to make sure I understood the needs and the core business logic.
Also so we can put it in the contract.
❓Functional specifications
How is it supposed to behave?
⚙️Technical specifications
What technologies are used to support its behavior?
🚦Contract signature
That's the real project kick-off when we agree on :
Scope
Budget
Timeline
Development phase
Simple, reliable & community-owned MERN stack.
With my own secret spices.
Infrastructure As Code (IAC)
One of the requirement was to have a SOC2 ready infrastructure at AWS, we chose Terraform to setup a full-size infrastructure at AWS including:
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
Elastic Container Registries (ECR)
Elastic Load Balancer (NLB)
Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Relational Database Service (RDS)
Guard Duty
CloudWatch & CloudTrail with aggregated logs from the cluster & many alerts on the instances
... more than 100 resources at AWS
Back-end development
For us a back-end is the code base of an API or a Worker, either exposing routes through a restful API or reacting asynchronously to messages from a queue.
It's made of:
Typescript 5.9, NodeJS 24
MongoDB 7
Express 5.2
Docker Node 24-alpine
Front-end development
We had one strong requirement: server side rendering for some public pages to be indexed by search engines (Google & co). NextJS was our first pick.
So this one is made of:
React 19.2
Next 16
Mui 7, for UI components this is the most complete library I've ever used !
All of that being worked on following a bootstrap strategy to meet the tight deadline. All the details here.
3.2.1...Launch !
5 weeks from the contract signature to a production ready execution of the entire architecture.
Then this message after the first round of tests with the beta testers ❤️
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to build a great tool allowing you to start your business
Next steps & Acquisition
We are here to guide our partners throughout the entire project life cycle with a post-launch strategy:
🌎 SEO Optimization
Server-side pages & structure, sitemaps, robots, LLM SEO, backlinks...
💸 CRM Sales pipeline
Leads/Deals tracking inside a Sales pipeline, Sales coaching included
🍯 Ads campaign
Google Ads & GTM tracking set up for efficient paid campaigns
🌱 Finance Ops.
Billing trackers & reports, discount campaigns, referral program..
Want to know more about how I work?
Work Methodology
From Documentation-Conception to keeping the User feedback loop alive while bootstraping a product and switching to a SCRUM approach, this is the result of 10 years of launching products.
Link here on my public Notion
Hosting Strategy
An overview of how we handle hosting providers when launching platforms worldwide effortlessly leveraging Kubernetes at a very low cost.