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Web App Development

Web apps, not just websites

Custom web applications, dashboards, portals, internal tools and SaaS front-ends, with real authentication, data and logic, engineered to scale and stay cheap to maintain.

Web apps, not just websites

A marketing website tells people about your product. A web app is the product: people log in, do work and rely on it. That difference changes everything, because a web app has to handle real accounts, real data, permissions and edge cases, the parts that never show up in a pretty mockup but decide whether the thing survives real use.

Our take: a web app is a software product, not a bigger website. Price and build it for the foundations, auth, data model, permissions, not the screens, because that is where cheap builds quietly fail.
What's included

Web App Development, end to end

Dashboards & portals

Data-rich interfaces where your users and team actually get work done, built around your real workflow.

SaaS front-ends

The application layer of a subscription product, wired to auth, roles and billing.

Real auth & data

Proper accounts, permissions and a production database, not demo data that vanishes on refresh.

Integrations & APIs

Clean connections to the tools and services your app depends on, tested end to end.

Performance at scale

Engineered to stay fast as users and data grow, not just on launch day.

Built to maintain

Clean, componentised code so changes are cheap long after launch.

Why appico

Made by the team founders re-hire

A real software product, not a styled website
Auth, data and permissions built in properly
Engineered to scale and cheap to maintain
Integrations tested end to end before launch
Full ownership of code, data and accounts
Common questions

Web App Development, asked and answered

What is the difference between a website and a web app?

A website is mostly content people read; a web app is software people log into and use to do work, with accounts, data and logic behind it. Web apps need real engineering, auth, a database, permissions, so they are scoped and built more like software than like a brochure site.

How much does a web app cost?

It depends on how much the app has to do behind the screen, the number of user roles, integrations and real-time features drive the cost far more than the number of pages. We price fixed scope by milestone, and starting with a lean version keeps the first number down.

Can you build a SaaS web app?

Yes. We build multi-tenant SaaS front-ends and the foundations behind them, roles, permissions, billing and data isolation, engineered in from the start. See our custom software and SaaS service for the full picture.

Which frameworks do you use?

Typically Next.js and React with a Node backend and PostgreSQL, chosen because they are mature, fast and easy to hire for. We pick the stack for your app, not for novelty.

Will it scale as we grow?

That is the point of building it properly. We engineer the data model, performance and architecture to grow with your users, and we are honest upfront about what a first version handles versus what a later phase needs.

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