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05 — Writing

Writing

Notes on decisions from our own projects — including the ones where we argued with the client and were right, and the ones where we were wrong.

6 min read

Why we talked a client out of a Telegram Mini App

The client wanted a polished catalogue inside Telegram. We ran the numbers and proposed plain buttons. A year later we revisited the conversation.

Alexey Shumilov

8 min read

React Native or native: where cross-platform breaks

React Native is our default, but four categories of work send us to native development — and we say so before the contract, not during the build.

Dmitry Basov

5 min read

What a CMS actually costs

Clients ask for an admin panel so they can "edit the text themselves". Here are the numbers on when it pays for itself, and when it is $2,000 for a button nobody presses.

Igor Novak

7 min read

What we look at in someone else's code in the first two days

Our technical audit checklist: nine checks that give you 80 % of the picture before you read a single line of business logic.

Viktor Samoilov

6 min read

How we estimate, and why it is stage by stage

A single fixed price for a whole project favours the contractor, not the client. Here is how we do it, and where that leaves us exposed.

Svetlana Yurchenko

7 min read

Language models in support: where you cannot let them near a customer

We built a bot for a bank and refused to hand the model every scenario. Here is how to split questions into ones where a model belongs and ones where it is dangerous.

Alexey Shumilov

06 — Contact

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