Blog
Practical notes from the studio on building, launching and maintaining digital products.
Business systemsCRM implementation: stages, cost, and why half of them fail to stick
Off-the-shelf, configured or custom — how to choose. What the price includes besides licences, and how to stop your team drifting back to spreadsheets.
FintechPayment gateway integration: what to handle besides taking cards
Why accepting payment is the smaller part, what idempotency and webhooks mean in practice, and how not to lose money on refunds and double charges.
SupportWebsite maintenance: what it covers and what it costs per month
How maintenance differs from new work, which pricing models exist, what response time really means, and why a site breaks even when nobody touches it.
BudgetHow much does it cost to build an app: how to read an estimate
Why a price range tells you nothing, what an estimate is actually made of, the five decisions that move the number most, and what to ask before you trust a quote.
ProductWhat is an MVP, and what you will have to cut
Defining an MVP takes two sentences. The hard part comes next: deciding what goes into the first version, what can be done by hand, and where "minimum" stops and "broken" begins.
EngineeringNative or cross-platform: how to choose, and how React Native differs from Flutter
Three questions that settle the native-versus-cross-platform decision, where cross-platform genuinely breaks down, what actually separates React Native from Flutter, and why the right answer is sometimes no app at all.
ReleaseHow to publish an app on the App Store and Google Play
What to set up before your first submission, how review works in each store, the guideline numbers behind the most common rejections, and what to do when your app is turned down.
