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Website development cost in Bangladesh: a practical guide
What changes the price, what a quote should include, and how to budget for a website that does a useful job for your business.
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Software
What a small business booking system should actually do
Availability, confirmations, cancellations, and the awkward edge cases. Plan a booking system around the work, not just a calendar.
4 min read
Growth
A local SEO checklist for small business websites
Help nearby customers find the right information, trust your business, and take the next step, with a checklist you can actually work through.
4 min read
Apps
Mobile app or responsive website: which should you build first?
Your customers use phones. That does not automatically mean your business needs an app. Choose the first product around how people will use it.
4 min read
Software
When should a business move from spreadsheets to custom software?
Spreadsheets are useful until the workarounds become the workflow. Here is how to recognise that point, and decide what to build next.
4 min read
Websites
Website or web app? What your small business actually needs
A clear way to choose between a marketing website and a working web application, without paying for complexity you do not need.
4 min read
Practice
Prompt engineering in 2026: images, code, and the agents in between
Most bad output is not badly worded. It is under specified. Here is what actually moves the result for image models, for coding agents, and the one habit that transfers between them.
7 min read
Engineering
WebSockets in production: when to use them, how to scale them, what breaks first
A WebSocket is a connection you now own for as long as it lives. Here is the decision to make before you open one, the four things that break it in production, and what it actually takes to run a million of them.
9 min read
Architecture
Microservices: the stack, when to adopt, and when to avoid
A practical guide to distributed systems architecture. Microservices solve real problems at scale, and create expensive ones for teams that adopt them a year too early.
3 min read
Engineering
Building in 2026: the definitive modern SaaS tech stack
A blueprint for scalable, high velocity SaaS architecture. The days of hand rolling authentication, subscription engines and connection pooling are behind us, here is what replaces them.
3 min read
Engineering
What a till does when the internet goes
Every point of sale vendor says their software works offline. Here is what that actually means in ours, down to the reason a dropped connection cannot bill a table twice.
5 min read
Design
Two languages, one interface
Translating an app is not the same as making it bilingual. The difference shows up in the numerals, and in who has to read the screen at four in the afternoon.
3 min read
Practice
Shipping software to a restaurant
The install is where most restaurant software loses. We moved the entire setup to our side of the handover: one file, with the menu, the floor plan and the staff logins already inside it.
4 min read