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What I have learned scoping, building, and handing over custom web applications — written for the people paying for them as much as the people building them.
Nobody can quote a number from a one-line description — but the factors that move the number are predictable. Here is what actually drives the price of a custom build, and how to make yours smaller.
Mostly the parts of custom software that are decided before any code exists: how to tell whether a process is worth automating, what makes a build expensive, why systems get abandoned six months after launch, and the handful of technical decisions that turn out to matter far more than the stack you chose.
If you want to see these ideas applied rather than described, the case studies walk through real systems — a point-of-sale build, an audit system, and a 3D fabrication ordering tool.
If any of this sounds like a problem you are living with, I am happy to talk it through — whether or not it turns into a project.
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