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Web applications

Customer portals, dashboards, booking and ordering systems, internal tools. Fast, accessible, and built to be maintained by whoever comes after us.

Kind
Build
Timeline
2 to 8 weeks
Web applications

What this is

A web application is anything your customers or staff log into and use to get work done: a customer portal, an admin panel, a booking system, an ordering flow, a dashboard over your data. It is not a brochure site, and it is not a template with your logo on it.

You choose the technology, or fit it to what you already run. If you have no preference, we propose mainstream, well-documented tools that are cheap to host and easy for the next developer to pick up.

What you get

  • A production application on your own domain and your own hosting account.
  • A separate test address where every change lands first, so you can click through before it goes live.
  • Authentication that fits your situation: email links, passwords with proper hashing, or single sign-on with the identity provider you already have.
  • Role-based access, audit logs where money or personal data is involved, and plain-language error messages. Nobody should ever see a stack trace.
  • A repository you own, with a README that a new developer can start from in an afternoon.

Typical scope

A first version is usually one clear job done well. Examples we would call one scope:

  • A portal where customers see their orders, invoices and tickets, with login and a contact form that reaches the right person.
  • An internal dashboard that replaces three spreadsheets, with imports from the systems the spreadsheets came from.
  • A booking flow with calendar, payment and confirmation emails.

Anything bigger is two scopes, delivered in order, each one usable on its own.

Timeline

Two to eight weeks from kickoff for a first version, depending on how many screens and integrations the scope has. You see a working test address within the first week, every week after that.

Good fit if

  • You can describe the one job the application must do.
  • Someone on your side can test and answer questions within a day or two.
  • You want to own the result, not rent it.

Not a fit if

  • You need a marketing website. That is a smaller, different job, and we will say so.
  • The requirement is "like X but for us" with nothing more. We will help you write the brief first, but we will not start building on that sentence.

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