01 — Which one do you need?

Website, web app, mobile app.

Three formats, one question: what does the person have to do?

Website
Explains, sells, guides. Anyone can read it. No login.
Choose whenPeople need to understand you.
Web app
Accounts, data and workflows in a browser. Nothing to install, works on any device.
Choose whenPeople need to do something.
Mobile app
Installed from a store. Earns its place through notifications, camera, location or offline use.
Choose whenThe phone itself is the point.

Most businesses that ask us for an app need a web app. Most that ask for a web app need a better website. We will say which, before quoting. The mobile case is argued honestly on the mobile app page.

02 — What we might build

Six shapes we are usually asked for.

  • Customers

    Customer portal

    Status, documents and history behind a login, so customers look instead of calling.

  • Team

    Operations dashboard

    Every job, order or case in one place, with a status the whole team can see.

  • Founders

    First product version

    The smallest version of a SaaS idea that real users can actually pay for and use.

  • Customers

    Booking system

    Availability, reservations and reminders that match how you really schedule.

  • Sales

    Configurator or quoting tool

    Options in, a correct price out, the same answer from everyone on the team.

  • Partners

    Dealer or vendor portal

    Orders, stock and pricing for the people who sell or supply for you.

If the system runs your internal operation rather than facing customers, it is the same craft under a different name: custom software.

03 — What it costs

Web app projects generally start around US$5,000.

Most first versions land between US$5,000 and US$20,000, quoted as a fixed price once the scope is agreed. No hourly rates, no per-seat licence to us — you own it.

User types
Owner, staff, customer, supplier: each role that needs its own view.
Workflows
How many processes, and how many exceptions each one has.
Integrations
Every system it has to read from or write to.
Scope of version one
The biggest lever: a small complete app costs a fraction of a large partial one.

04 — How we work

Small, complete, in use early.

We scope version one down to the smallest thing that is genuinely useful, build it so people can use it before it is finished, and let real use decide version two. Design and development happen together, because a tool nobody opens is a spreadsheet with extra steps.

05 — Proof

Most of this work stays private.

A portal shows a company’s customers by name; a quoting tool shows its pricing. That is exactly why they are useful and exactly why they are not screenshots on a website. We will walk you through relevant examples privately, with the client’s details removed.

Our public work is two websites, built with the same care.

06 — Questions

Before you get in touch.

What counts as a web application?
Anything where people log in, put data in, and the software does something with it. If your site only has to be read, it is a website. If it has to remember who someone is and what they did, it is a web app.
Why is it more than a website?
Because a website has to be read and a web app has to be right. Accounts, permissions, stored data and workflows all have to behave correctly for every user on every path — that is where the work goes, and why version one is scoped deliberately small.
Web app or mobile app?
For most businesses, a web app. It works on every device, needs no install and no app-store review, and costs less to change. Choose a mobile app when notifications, camera, location or offline use are central — see the honest version of that argument on the mobile page.
Can it connect to the tools we already use?
Usually. Accounting software, email, WhatsApp, payment providers and calendars all have interfaces we can connect to. Older or unusual systems sometimes do not, and we will find that out during scoping rather than after.
Can it become a mobile app later?
Often the web app is already usable on a phone, which is enough. If a real app becomes necessary, building the web version first means the data and the logic already exist — the app becomes a new front end, not a new system.

07 — Next

08 — Start a conversation

What isn’t working?

Tell us what’s going on. We’ll work out the right next step together.

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