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Guides
Plain answers to the questions people ask before they pay for software. Each guide gives the answer first, links its sources and carries a review date.
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What does custom software cost in Namibia?
The published figures, what a first version costs here, and the monthly costs people forget.
Read the guideDecisionBuild or buy: custom software or a ready-made product?
Five questions that decide it, and the arithmetic over three years.
Read the guideSpreadsheetsWhen should a business stop using spreadsheets?
What spreadsheets do well, their real limits, and eight signs you have passed them.
Read the guideMobileDo you need an app, a web app or a website?
What each one can do on a phone, what it costs, and when the app store is worth it.
Read the guideOwnershipWho owns the code? What to check before you sign
Six things to have in your own name, and the questions to ask any developer.
Read the guideBriefHow to write a software brief
A one-page template that gets you quotes you can compare.
Read the guideGlossarySoftware words explained
API, MVP, hosting, database and twenty more, in plain words.
Read the guideHave a specific problem?
Start from the problem pages, which list what to try yourself, or price a first version with the estimator.
Describe the problem. We will send back a scope.
Say what is slowing the work down and who is affected. You get a one-page scope in plain words: what would be built first, how long it takes and what it costs. It is free, and you owe nothing if you do not go ahead.