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Web Application Development

Custom web applications: customer portals, booking systems, dashboards and the internal tools that replace a spreadsheet somebody has been maintaining by hand for four years.

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Typical time to a usable first release
4–6 wkTypical time to a usable first release
Projects handed over with tests and a runbook
100%Projects handed over with tests and a runbook
Sprint cadence with a working demo each time
2 wkSprint cadence with a working demo each time

The problem

Application projects fail on scope, not on code. Everything is a requirement, nothing is a phase, and eight months in there is no working software to look at — only an invoice and a Gantt chart.

How we do it

What the work actually involves

/01

One phase you can use, then the next

The first release does the single most valuable thing end to end and goes live. Every phase after it is decided with real usage in front of us, which is the only reliable way to find out that the feature everyone argued about is not needed.

/02

Authentication and permissions designed early

Who can see what is an architectural decision, not a setting. Retrofitting roles into an application that assumed one kind of user is one of the most expensive rewrites there is.

/03

Built to be maintained by someone else

Tests, typed boundaries, a runbook and a recorded walkthrough. You should be able to take the repository to another team without a translation project.

Included

What you actually receive

  • Discovery: user roles, core flows, and what phase one is
  • Clickable prototype before build starts
  • Authentication, roles and audit logging
  • Application build with automated tests and CI
  • Staging environment with client access from week one
  • Runbook, recorded walkthrough and source handover

Tools we use

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma
  • Docker
Common failures

Where this usually goes wrong

The three we are called in to fix most often. If any of these describe your current setup, that is the first thing we would change.

  • Building the full product before anyone uses it

    Six months of features shipped in one release means six months of assumptions tested at once. What comes back is a list of things to rebuild.

  • Authentication rolled by hand

    Sessions, password resets, rate limiting and multi-factor are solved problems with well-tested implementations. Writing your own is a security exposure with no upside.

  • No plan for the data at ten times the volume

    A query that runs in 40ms on a thousand rows can take thirty seconds on a million. Indexes and pagination are cheap on day one and disruptive to retrofit under load.

Measurement

How you will know it is working

Agreed before we start, so progress is visible in the months before it shows up in revenue.

Time to first usable release
How quickly real users are on something real. Shorter is better almost regardless of scope.
Weeks 6–10
p95 response time under load
Measured against projected volume, not current volume. It is the number that decides whether growth breaks the product.
Pre-launch
Error rate per session
From the error reporter. A rising rate after a release is the fastest signal that something shipped broken.
Ongoing
Questions

Any question in your mind?

The questions we get asked most, answered without the sales gloss. If yours is not here, ask us directly — you will get a straight answer either way.

Still have questions?

Book 30 minutes with a strategist. No deck, no pitch — just answers about your situation.

Book a call

Often, yes. We start with a fixed-fee audit: what works, what is load-bearing, what should be rewritten and what it would cost. Sometimes the honest recommendation is to restart a specific module rather than continue it, and you get that in writing before committing to anything larger.

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