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Web Application Development

Dashboards, portals, admin panels, marketplaces, and authenticated internal platforms — built fast, made accessible, and shipped with the observability they need on day one.

Who this is for

Product teams shipping authenticated, data-rich web applications — customer dashboards, internal admin tools, B2B portals, marketplaces — that need to handle real workloads, not just look good in a screenshot.

What we solve

Most web apps slow down, get inaccessible, and accumulate frontend tech debt within a year of launch. We build for the third year, not just the launch — design systems, performance budgets, telemetry, and a clean component model from day one.

A serious web application is not a marketing site with a login form. It is a real product: state, permissions, integrations, edge cases, performance budgets, accessibility requirements, monitoring, and an upgrade path. We build them with the same discipline as native software — because that is what they are.

What we build

The systems we've shipped most often.

01

Customer-facing dashboards

Reporting, analytics, configuration, and self-service tools for paying customers. Real-time updates where they earn the complexity, polled data otherwise.

02

Internal admin panels

Operations, support, finance, and content tooling for in-house teams. Built around the actual workflow, not a generic CRUD generator.

03

Multi-tenant SaaS interfaces

RBAC, organization switching, billing, audit logs — the components every SaaS needs but most build twice.

04

Marketplace front-ends

Search, listings, profiles, messaging, and payment flows for two- and three-sided marketplaces.

05

Progressive Web Apps

Installable, offline-capable web apps when the use case warrants it — often a faster path to mobile than a wrapped native app.

06

Real-time interfaces

Collaborative editors, live dashboards, chat, and presence-aware UIs built on WebSockets, SSE, or CRDTs depending on the consistency model.

Capabilities

How the team is set up.

Architecture

Server-side rendering, static generation, or single-page — chosen per route based on what the page actually needs, not as a religion. App Router, RSC, and edge rendering used where they earn their place.

Next.js App RouterReact Server ComponentsVercelCloudflaretRPC

Performance

Core Web Vitals tracked, performance budgets enforced in CI, image and font pipelines tuned, hydration costs measured. The site is fast on a mid-range Android, not just a developer Mac.

Lighthouse CIWebPageTestBundle analyzernext/imagenext/font

Accessibility & quality

WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline, axe-core in CI, keyboard navigation tested, screen reader audits before release. Accessibility is a property of the codebase, not a one-time audit.

axe-corePlaywrightVitestStorybookTypeScript strict mode
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Proof

average increase in user engagement post-redesign

Across redesigns measured 6 months pre/post launch with the same analytics setup.

Process

How we run this work.

Full delivery process

02

Strategy

Architecture decisions made before a single line of code. Stack selection, deployment model, third-party dependencies — documented, debated, decided.

03

Build

Iterative, with weekly demos. No black-box sprints. You see working software every week or we're not doing it right.

04

Ship

Zero-downtime deployments with rollback capability. Every release is tested, monitored, and documented. We don't disappear after launch.

FAQ

Common questions

Should we build a single-page app, server-rendered app, or hybrid?+
It depends on the page. Marketing-style content benefits from SSR or static generation for SEO and Core Web Vitals. Highly interactive authenticated dashboards often favor client-side rendering for snappy state transitions. Modern frameworks like Next.js let you mix per route, which is usually the right answer.
Do you build progressive web apps?+
Yes when the use case justifies it — installability, offline capability, push notifications, hardware access. For many products a polished responsive web app is sufficient and a PWA shell adds complexity without payoff.
How do you handle accessibility?+
WCAG 2.2 AA as a baseline, with axe-core integrated into CI to catch regressions. We run keyboard-only and screen reader walkthroughs before each major release, and the design system enforces accessible defaults so feature work does not regress the baseline.
What is your approach to design systems?+
For projects with more than a handful of pages we build (or extend) a component library on top of Radix UI primitives and Tailwind, with Storybook for documentation and visual regression testing. The design system is owned by the same team writing application code, not a separate org.
Can you integrate with our existing backend?+
Yes. Most engagements include integration with existing APIs, identity providers, billing, analytics, and third-party services. We routinely build modern web frontends on top of legacy backends as a first step in a phased modernization.

Ready to scope it?

Most engagements start with a 30-minute discovery call. No pitch deck, no NDAs on day one — just an honest conversation about your problem.

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