Services / Web Development
Apoliums builds web applications that hold real business data — customer portals, operations dashboards, booking systems and the internal tools a company runs on.
The work is custom software development, not a template with your logo on it. We start from the records your business actually keeps, decide the permission model before the first screen is drawn, and ship to a staging URL every week so you watch the application arrive instead of waiting for it.
What we build
Most projects are one of these, or two of them joined together. Each is quoted from a written scope rather than a category.
The screen your customers log into: their account, their data, their documents, their history. Built with the permission model decided before the first screen is drawn.
The software your own team runs the business on, replacing the spreadsheet that three people email each other every morning.
Multi-step flows where a half-finished state is a real business problem. We treat every write as retryable and every payment as concurrently callable.
An application that outgrew its first version gets a read-only audit before anything changes: entry points, data model, test coverage, and the paths most likely to break.
Your application rarely lives alone. We write the anti-corruption layer so a vendor's outage or schema change stays contained to one file.
Server rendering, image handling and bundle size are decided during the build, not retrofitted after a Lighthouse score comes back red.
How we work
Each step ends in something you can open, read or click. Nothing here produces a slide deck.
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We list the user roles, the screens each one needs, the systems the app has to talk to, and the records it owns. What is out of version one gets written down too.
Written scope and screen list
Step 02 / 05
Flows and interfaces are drawn with the actual field names and the states nobody enjoys designing — empty, loading, permission denied, and the record with a 90-character name.
Flows and interface design
Step 03 / 05
The PostgreSQL schema, the access rules and the API contract are agreed before feature work starts, because these are the three decisions that are expensive to reverse later.
Schema and API contract
Step 04 / 05
Every week ends with a staging URL you can open and click. Feedback lands while the code is still cheap to change, and the scope document is updated when it moves.
Weekly staging build
Step 05 / 05
Access control, error handling, load behaviour and backups each get a dedicated pass. Then we deploy, wire up logging and alerts, and hand over the runbook and the repository.
Production deploy and handover
Technologies
This is the default stack. Where your team already runs something else, we work in that instead and say so at scoping rather than after signing.
Stack manifest — 04 groups
25 components listed
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Server-rendered by default, so the first paint does not wait on JavaScript.
07 components
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Chosen per project — Node where the team is one language, Python where the work is data-heavy.
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PostgreSQL is the default. Anything else has to earn its place in the stack.
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The pipeline is part of the build, not a task left for the week before launch.
07 components
Questions
A web application development company builds software that runs in a browser and holds real business data — portals, dashboards, booking systems and internal tools. Apoliums covers the whole path: scoping, interface design, database and API design, the build itself, the deploy pipeline, and support after launch.
That is different from a website project. A marketing site presents information; a web application stores records, enforces permissions, takes payments and has to behave correctly when two people press the same button at the same second.
Apoliums prices web application development per project, after scoping, so the number reflects your build rather than an average. Cost is driven by four things: the number of user roles, the number of third-party systems to integrate, whether payments or regulated data are involved, and how much of the existing data has to be migrated.
You get a fixed-scope quote with those drivers itemised, plus what we would cut to bring the first release forward. Ongoing work after launch is quoted separately as a retainer or per change.
A first production release from Apoliums usually takes eight to sixteen weeks from signed scope to launch. The lower end is a single-role application with one integration; the upper end covers several user roles, payments, data migration from an existing system, and an admin console for your own team.
You do not wait to the end to see it. A staging URL goes up in week one and is updated every week, so the launch date is something you watch approach rather than something you are told.
Yes. Apoliums takes over existing web applications and starts with a read-only audit covering entry points, data model, test coverage, dependency health and the riskiest code paths. The audit lands before any change is made, so you get a map of what you own and a ranked list of what to fix first.
Rebuilds run route by route with the old and new systems live at the same time, so there is no single overnight cutover that has to work perfectly on the first attempt.
You own it. Apoliums writes every project in your repository or transfers the repository to you at handover, with full commit history, environment configuration and the deployment runbook included. There is no licence to renew and no component you have to keep paying us to use.
Yes. Apoliums offers support after launch as a monthly retainer covering dependency and security updates, monitoring and alert response, and an agreed number of change requests. Clients who prefer to run the application themselves get the runbook, the alert configuration and a handover session with their team instead.
Next step
Describe what the application has to do, who uses it and what exists already. Apoliums replies with the smallest version that solves it, what it takes to build, and what we would leave out of the first release.
