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Custom software and internal tools
Custom software for the moment your spreadsheets give up.
Custom software development means building a platform, internal tool, admin panel or client portal around how your business already works, instead of bending the business around off-the-shelf software. Vyorde builds it for small and mid-size companies and startups whose spreadsheets, or the tools they rent, have stopped keeping up.
What you get
Custom platforms
Software built around how your business works, not the other way round.
Internal tools
The small apps your team uses every day instead of a shared spreadsheet.
Admin panels
A back office where staff can see and fix things without asking a developer.
Integrations
Your tools talking to each other through their APIs, so nobody retypes data.
Databases
A structure for your data that still makes sense when there's ten times more of it.
Reports
The numbers you need, ready when you need them.
What's included
- A written map of the process the software has to support, checked with the people who do the work
- A first version that does the main job, used by your team before anything else is added
- User roles, permissions and an admin panel for staff
- API integrations with the tools you are keeping
- Data moved over from spreadsheets or the old system
- Reports and exports of the numbers you need
- Documentation for the next developer, and the code in a repository you can see
What's not included
- Detailed interface design for a product with many screens. That is scoped as Product Design, usually inside the same project.
- Simple connections between two tools that work fine as they are. That is Automation, and it costs less than custom software.
- Reworking the servers and deploys of systems you already run. That is DevOps & Cloud.
You'll probably like this if
- Your business runs on five spreadsheets and one person who understands them.
- Off-the-shelf software does most of what you need, and the rest costs you hours every week.
- Two of your tools need to talk to each other, and they don't.
How it goes
We map how the work happens.
By talking to the people who do it, which is rarely the same as the org chart.
We build the core first.
The smallest version that does the main job properly.
Real people use it.
Your team works with it and tells us what's missing or annoying.
We add the rest.
Based on what people actually needed, rather than what we guessed at the start.
Every project follows the same five steps. See the full process.
What changes the price
- How many kinds of users and permissions there are
- How many other systems it connects to
- Moving data over from what you use now
- Security and compliance requirements
Tell us what you need and you get a quote in writing before anything starts.
Before you start
- The spreadsheets, forms or exports the work runs on today
- A list of who uses the process and what each of them is allowed to see or change
- The other systems it has to connect to, and who holds the admin logins
- The three things that waste the most time each week
- One person who can make decisions for your side
You don't need all of it for the first call.
Questions about custom software
Who owns the code?
You do, once it's paid for. That's written in the contract before we start. Accounts and handover are covered on How we work.
Can you work with our existing systems?
Usually, through their API. If a system doesn't have one, we'll tell you early what that means for the project.
Do you look after it after launch?
We can, under a separate support agreement, or hand it to your own developers.
How long does custom software take to build?
A first working version fits the range of our MVP Build package, 6 to 12 weeks, when the scope is kept to the main job. Larger systems are built in stages after that, each with its own scope and dates. The things that stretch a timeline are usually integrations and moving old data, so we look at those first.
What do you need from us to start?
Time with the people who do the work today, not only their managers. Copies of the spreadsheets or exports you use now. Access to the systems we have to connect to, or their API documentation. And one person on your side who can decide when two departments want different things.
Where do the code and data live while you build?
In a repository you can see and on hosting opened in your name. We get access to those accounts, and you can remove it. Where the real data is sensitive, we agree with you what the test version may use. If your data has to stay in the EU, we choose hosting there and write that into the scope.
Can another team take over the software later?
Yes, and we build with that in mind. We use well-known tools with good documentation, write notes for the next developer and list every account and who holds it. The parts where a bug would be expensive get automated tests. Afterwards your own developers can maintain it, or we can under a support agreement.
More questions are answered on the FAQ page.
Want to start smaller?
Try the MVP Build package first. For founders and teams with a product idea who want a first working version in front of real users, without building everything at once. Typical timeline: 6 to 12 weeks. The exact dates are in your quote.
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