diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b6b5b04b4..a105940f6 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -254,10 +254,11 @@ endif
 	fi
 
 # HELP(start-backend): start development instance
---start-backend: --compile-backend
+--start-backend:
 	export DEV_PORT_HTTP=`cat $(CONTAINER_FILE) | grep 'DEV_PORT_HTTP=' | sed 's/DEV_PORT_HTTP=//'`; \
 	export DEV_PORT_HTTPS=`cat $(CONTAINER_FILE) | grep 'DEV_PORT_HTTPS=' | sed 's/DEV_PORT_HTTPS=//'`; \
 	export HOST=`hostname -s` ; \
+	export PORT=$${PORT:-$${DEV_PORT_HTTP}} ; \
 	export DETAILED_LOGGING=$${DETAILED_LOGGING:-true} ; \
 	export LOG_ALL=$${LOG_ALL:-false} ; \
 	export LOGLEVEL=$${LOGLEVEL:-info} ; \
@@ -270,7 +271,7 @@ endif
 	export RIBBON=$${RIBBON:-$${HOST:-localhost}} ; \
 	export APPROOT=$${APPROOT:-http://localhost:$${DEV_PORT_HTTP}} ; \
 	export AVSPASS=$${AVSPASS:-nopasswordset} ; \
-	./bin/uniworx
+	stack $(STACK_CORES) exec --local-bin-path $$(pwd)/bin --copy-bins -- yesod devel -p "$${DEV_PORT_HTTP}" -q "$${DEV_PORT_HTTPS}"
 # HELP(compile-backend): compile backend binaries
 --compile-backend:
 	stack build $(STACK_CORES) --fast --profile --library-profiling --executable-profiling --flag uniworx:-library-only $(--DEVELOPMENT) --local-bin-path $$(pwd)/bin --copy-bins
diff --git a/package.yaml b/package.yaml
index 93f2b5f94..fb477c3c1 100644
--- a/package.yaml
+++ b/package.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Sarah Vaupel <sarah.vaupel@uniworx.de>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023-2024 Sarah Vaupel <sarah.vaupel@uniworx.de>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
 
diff --git a/utils/develop-status.pl b/utils/develop-status.pl
index f67456a9e..9e19ad3c1 100755
--- a/utils/develop-status.pl
+++ b/utils/develop-status.pl
@@ -75,10 +75,6 @@ my @devs = filesFromDir($develop,
   [qr((?:[0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}T)), 1, "File '%fn' does not look like a development dir, skip"],
   ]);
 
-for my $devStamp(@devs) {
-  print "+ Development $devStamp found\n";
-  devdirInfo($devStamp, "$develop/$devStamp")
-}
 #my $devDir = undef;
 #opendir($devDir, "$develop") or die "Cannot open develop directory, because: $!";
 #while(my $devStamp = readdir($devDir)) {
@@ -99,6 +95,11 @@ for my $k(sort {
   print "Fradrive container outside develop file: ($c->{state}) $c->{name} $c->{id}\n" if $show
 }
 
+for my $devStamp(@devs) {
+  print "+ Development $devStamp found\n";
+  devdirInfo($devStamp, "$develop/$devStamp")
+}
+
 exit 0;
 
 sub devdirInfo {