How I ended up buying vinelabs.de TL;DR : I bought vinelabs.de last weekend. Was not planning to. The trigger was the author field of a manifest file, the same kind you fill into a composer.json , a package.json , a Cargo.toml , or whatever your stack of the day calls it. The realisation was that shipping serious packages under my personal GitHub username reads like a hobby for code that will sit in someone's finance pipeline. Trust problem, not a code problem. So I bought a domain. Set up an org. Built a small landing site. Here is the short version. So here is what happened. I was in the middle of finishing up xrechnung-kit , which started as a small Shopware plugin and grew into a monorepo with eight packages. I have already written about that one separately, so if you want the long story you can find it here . But the boring scene that mattered was this. I was filling in the manifest files for the Shopware sibling package and the small Astro showcase site that was going to live next to it.…