Tutorials, best practices and news on Django, Python and modern web development.
Generic scheduling tools suit one person and one calendar. This guide covers what a custom booking app has to handle instead: resources and buffers, concurrent requests, deposits through Stripe, reminders and the admin side, with The Golf Cabin and Apple Tree Stays as examples.
Custom web app development for a B2B SaaS startup starts with one complete journey, not a small copy of the finished product. What to cut from an MVP, why Django suits it, the multi-tenancy decision, billing through Stripe, and the stages we build in.
A KPI tracking template you can copy: a north star metric, then acquisition, engagement, technical health and commercial metrics, each with a plain definition, a named source and a review cadence. Plus how to automate the report in a Django app.
Requirements for a custom web app describe who uses it, what each person must do, the rules it enforces and its limits. A twelve-heading outline to copy, how to write testable requirements, MoSCoW prioritising and a worked example.
A custom web-based workflow app turns a process run across spreadsheets, email and rented tools into one system that enforces the steps. How to tell when you need one, how to map it, the three workflows we build most often, and what the automation is made of.
The steps to move a WordPress site to a custom web app without losing rankings: export and clean the content, map every URL to a 301, rebuild the forms and integrations, launch from staging and watch Search Console.
A website is read; a web app is used. The plain-words difference, the six signs that spreadsheets and manual admin mean your business needs a web app, two platforms we run ourselves, and how one gets built in stages.
An API is how one piece of software asks another for something. When your website needs to use one, when it needs to offer one, and the mechanics that matter: REST and JSON, keys versus OAuth, rate limits, idempotency and consistent errors.