- Is this a subscription?
- No. You pay once. There is no renewal, no seat fee and nothing to cancel. The subscription machinery inside The Fabrica is for the product you build with it — your customers can be on monthly plans without you being on one.
- What do I actually receive?
- Access to the Git repository and every update we publish: FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend, Celery workers, Docker and Fly deployment config, 49 recipes, the compliance bundle, and the backend and frontend test suites.
- Do updates cost extra?
- No, and they are designed to be survivable. Buyer-created product files live in reserved _domain/ paths that upstream does not overwrite, reducing the merge surface when you pull an update.
- Can I use it for client work?
- On the Team licence, yes — build and deliver client projects with it. On Solo you can ship unlimited products that you own and operate; delivering the codebase to a client as their property needs the Team licence.
- Does this make my product GDPR-compliant?
- It gives you the code and the paperwork to start from, and does the parts that are genuinely hard to retrofit: cascade deletes for erasure, an audit log on every privileged action, a processing register, and consent that is recorded rather than assumed. Compliance is still yours to complete, and none of this is legal advice.
- What if I don't write Python?
- Then this is probably the wrong starting point. The backend is FastAPI and async SQLAlchemy the whole way down. We would rather say so here than have you find out after checkout.