Notes on building internal tools
What we have learned scoping and shipping custom dashboards for small businesses. No thought leadership, just the things that decide whether a build is worth doing.
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Six signs your business has outgrown spreadsheets
A spreadsheet does not fail loudly. It degrades, and the business absorbs the cost as somebody's second job. Here are the six symptoms worth taking seriously.
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Custom dashboard vs off-the-shelf software: how to actually decide
Off-the-shelf wins more often than a studio like ours likes to admit. Here is the honest version of the decision, including the cases where you should not build.
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What a custom dashboard costs, and what moves the number
Nobody publishes a price for custom software, for reasons that are half legitimate. Here is what actually moves the number, and how to compare quotes that look nothing alike.
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What to put in your first business dashboard
Most first builds fail by being too big, not too small. A method for deciding what goes in version one, and what to deliberately leave out.
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Why internal tools get abandoned, and how to avoid it
The tool works. Nobody uses it. That failure is almost never technical, and it is predictable enough to design against before a line of code is written.
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