How to Compare App Development Quotes in 2026
In 2026, compare app quotes by the same outcomes, assumptions and handover, then separate development from post-launch costs.
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Notes from the studio
What I've learned building and shipping products — for the founders and CTOs who have to make the call.
Migrate your MVP to one Flutter codebase for €15,000
The app already exists. This is the port: one Flutter codebase, four weeks, €15,000, when what you have is still an MVP.
Two Claude accounts on one Mac: my Personal and Work setup
One Claude installation, two desktop profiles, and two short aliases. A practical macOS guide to keeping personal and work accounts open side by side.
How long App Store and Play review actually take in 2026
Neither store publishes an SLA. Here is what the clocks actually look like in 2026, and how a dual-store release calendar is built around that.
Fiestas de Gràcia: shipping our neighbourhood's festival guide in a week
Our neighbourhood's festival, a long District programme in a PDF, and a hard deadline that does not move: how a small guide shipped before the festa began.
What building an MVP actually costs in 2026
Most MVP quotes are answering a different question than the one you asked. Here's what the number is actually made of.
Hire a CTO or outsource? A founder's decision framework
The question isn't which is better. It's which risk you can least afford to carry right now.
The CEO↔CTO translation problem: why your roadmap keeps slipping
The roadmap isn't slipping because engineering is slow. It's slipping because two people are using the same words to mean different things.
Fixed price vs time and materials: which contract actually protects you
One of these transfers risk to your supplier. The other transfers it to you. Neither is generous.
Why agencies take six months to do three weeks of work
Nobody is being lazy. The six months is designed in, and mostly by accident.
Native vs Flutter vs React Native in 2026
Choose an app stack by the platform features you need, the team you can maintain, and the work you are willing to own after launch.
How to audit a codebase before you buy, fund, or inherit it
You have two days and no context. Here's the order I look at things, and which red flags are real.
AI-assisted delivery: what changes and what still needs judgment
Review AI-generated app code with a bounded change, concrete failure cases and release evidence.
I was a founder before I was a CTO. Here's what I got wrong.
I built the product beautifully and ran out of the thing that actually mattered. Twice.
What Yuzz and NEXT taught me that still holds up twelve years later
Two programmes, one year, one company that didn't make it. Four lessons that outlived all of it.