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What is Right for Your Project: The Pros and Cons of PWAs vs. Mobile App Development

Exploring mobile app possibilities for your business? You might want to consider exploring the world...

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How to stop and avoid Twilio Toll Fraud

This post details some custom software approaches to mitigating Twilio Toll Fraud, a menace that cos...

Strategy

Bespoke software development for business: A comprehensive guide

Costs and timelines can vary wildly in bespoke business software development. We want to help you ge...

Strategy

Lean Automation Framework for Business Processes

Discover a three-step framework for lean business process automation (BPA) that incorporates human-d...

Strategy

Bespoke software vendors - Local vs. Offshore software development

Explore the pros and cons of local, onshore, and offshore bespoke software vendors to make an inform...

Strategy

K-Optional Software rules for engagement with GPT and LLMs

For a custom software business in the year 2023, large language models (LLMs) like GPT are hard to a...

Strategy

Navigating BaaS Providers - Understanding Firebase in Business Applications

Firebase is a wildly popular app development platform, but it comes with tradeoffs. After years work...

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Bespoke software development: Mistakes every business should avoid

You’ve probably heard a success story or two about bespoke software development, something like “ord...

Strategy

Bespoke Software SaaS Integration Strategy to Streamline Your Business

In this software-as-a-service (SaaS) integration strategy guide, find out how to choose the right be...

Guide

How to Implement Business Automation Solutions: A Case Study

Learn how to implement business process automation with a real-world example from an appliance servi...

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Automate Your Business with these Bespoke Solutions

Thinking of automating a piece of your business? You’re probably onto something. Most companies, eve...

K-Optional Handbook

How to Evaluate and Select a Bespoke Software Development Firm

How do development firms price applications? As a client, what are the best ways to optimize on val...

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Why we’re moving away from Firebase

We’ve launched dozens of applications on Firebase, utilized nearly every facet of the platform, and ...

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The ultimate software start-up system essentials

Wondering what fundamental systems to adopt for your early-stage startup or idea? Here’s our definit...

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The perils of single-client SaaS products

Subscription revenue is the gift that keeps on giving; who doesn’t value long-term and predictable i...

Strategy

When to buy, and when to build custom software

Explore the build vs buy dilemma in software development with a real-world case study, and learn to ...

Case Study

Software Development: How to build an app in two days

In this article we will tell you how we built an app in two days. Hopefully you will be able to use ...

K-Optional Handbook

K-Optional Software - The Ultimate Developer Engagement

We’ve thought very hard about how to best align incentives in a product development engagement. We t...

K-Optional Handbook

Building MVPs with K-Optional - Our Strategy

Through dozens of minimum viable products, K-Optional Software has mastered the craft. We know the t...