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Web applications

Most of what we build lives in a browser: the portal your customers log into, the dashboard your operations team keeps open all day, the admin tool that replaced a shared spreadsheet. It is the least glamorous category of software and the one businesses most depend on.

What it covers

We build the software your business runs on day to day. That usually means a React or Next.js front end, a typed API, and a database schema designed for how your team actually works rather than how the demo looked.

  • Product and technical discovery
  • Design systems and front-end build
  • API and database design
  • Third-party and payment integrations

How we approach it

We learn the process before we design the screens
Software fails when it models an idealised workflow instead of the real one. We sit with the people who will use it and find out where the exceptions, the workarounds and the copy-paste steps are — those are usually the requirements that matter.
The data model comes first
Screens are cheap to change and a schema is not. We get the underlying model right early, so a year later a new feature is an afternoon rather than a migration nobody wants to run.
Built to be handed over
Typed code, plain structure, real documentation, and a deployment anyone can run. You should never be one person's availability away from being able to change your own software.

Where we differ

Why bring this to us rather than anyone else.

AI-native, so the economics are different
AI writes a large share of the code and drafts the tests, which means a small team ships what a conventional agency staffs ten people for. You get the timeline and the price of a much smaller project without the corner-cutting that usually implies.
You talk to the people writing it
No account manager relaying your requirements to a team you never meet, and no junior quietly assigned after the contract is signed. The person who answers your question is the person who wrote the code.
No platform lock-in
Some shops build you a website on their proprietary CMS and rent it back to you. We don't. Code, infrastructure, domains and accounts are in your name from day one, on standard tools another team could pick up.

When to call us

You probably need this if…

  • A core process runs on a spreadsheet that only one person fully understands
  • Your customers ask for a portal and you send PDFs instead
  • An existing app is slow, fragile, or nobody left knows how it works
  • You have off-the-shelf tools that almost fit, and a lot of manual work between them

Questions

Can you work with our existing codebase?
Usually, yes. We take on inherited systems regularly. The first step is a short review to tell you honestly whether it's worth extending or whether you're better off rebuilding a piece at a time — and we'll say so even when rebuilding is the smaller job for us.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit, in your own repository. There is no licence to keep paying and nothing you need our permission to change.

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Next step

Tell us what you are trying to fix.

A couple of paragraphs is plenty. We will tell you honestly whether this is the right service for it, and whether we are the right team — usually within two working days.

Start a projector email connect@riftwaretechnologies.com