Slow on the phones people actually use
The site feels fine on the office laptop and crawls on a mid-range phone over mobile data. Visitors who won’t wait for it go straight back to the search results.
Build a product
Web application development, fast and usable on every screen.
Web applications and platforms: customer portals, dashboards and marketing sites that do real work. React and Next.js on the front end, from first prototype to production. Accessible from the first screen, owned entirely by you, with a working demo every two weeks.
Sound familiar?
The problems this solves.
Customers ringing for things a portal should do
Checking an order, downloading an invoice, updating an address. Your team answers the same calls and emails every day because the self-service option is confusing, or missing.
Reports rebuilt from exports every week
Someone downloads a few spreadsheets, pastes them together and emails a chart. By the time anyone reads it, the numbers are already out of date.
A web app that breaks with every change
It grew one rushed feature at a time. There are no tests, small fixes take weeks, and the person who understood it has moved on.
What you get
Concrete things, not adjectives.
Web apps and customer portals
Sign-in, accounts and permissions, and the screens your customers and staff use to get things done without picking up the phone.
Dashboards your team will use
Live views of the numbers that matter, pulled straight from your systems, so nobody rebuilds a spreadsheet every Monday.
Marketing sites that lead somewhere
Enquiry forms that reach the right person, calculators, catalogues and ordering routes — pages that move a visitor to the next step, not just describe you.
Mobile-first, accessible screens
Every screen designed at phone width first, then widened. Keyboard navigation, readable colour contrast, clear form errors and proper labels for screen readers are checked as we build.
A performance pass before launch
Before launch we measure the pages that matter most and trim whatever slows the first screen, so the site feels quick where your customers are.
Tested code in your repository
Automated browser tests, readable code and written documentation, all in your repository from day one. Production runs in your own cloud accounts.
How an engagement runs
A demo every two weeks. No six-month silences.
Most projects start with a short, fixed-price discovery and move in two-week sprints you can stop, pause or extend.
From discovery to launch
Weeks 1–2
We learn the game before we play it
What happens
We sit with your users, your constraints and your numbers. Then architecture, scope, and the honest version of what fits your timeline — including the parts we would cut.
What you get
A scoped plan with a real budget, a technical architecture you own, and a working prototype of whichever part carries the most risk.
Fixed priceYours to keepNo obligation to continue
Two-week sprints
A demo at the end of every sprint
What happens
Design and engineering run together rather than in sequence. Every sprint closes with something you can click — never a status report standing in for progress.
What you get
A product growing in front of you, written status every week, and a direct line to the engineers writing the code.
Demo every two weeksYour repository from day oneRe-scope between sprints
Launch and after
We stay on past the launch party
What happens
A security review, a performance pass, and a handover your team can actually act on. Then we watch the first weeks of real traffic alongside you.
What you get
Production infrastructure in your accounts, documentation and training, and a support arrangement sized to your stage.
Security reviewed before launchFull handover and trainingSupport that answers
Expertise
The tools, and who it suits.
Technologies we use
- Front end
- Back end and data
- Hosting and delivery
- Testing
A good fit when
- Customers or staff need to do something on your site, not just read it.
- Your current site or web app is slow, hard to change or awkward on a phone.
- You want a codebase in widely used tools, so your own developers can take it over later.
- You would rather see working software every two weeks than wait for a big reveal.
Probably not the right fit when
- You need a handful of pages that rarely change, with no forms or logic behind them. A good website builder will probably serve you better, and we will say so.
- Your customers will use it often and rely on the phone itself: notifications, the camera, location or working with poor signal. Start with mobile app development instead.
Proof
Work we’ve delivered.
Restaurant website
Dancing Chef Biriyani
One home for a busy biriyani kitchen — the menu, the story, the gallery and the events calendar in one place, with ordering that opens WhatsApp or rings the shop directly. Built mobile-first, because that is where a hungry customer actually is.
Menu, gallery, events and story pagesWhatsApp and click-to-call orderingCatering enquiries with delivery radiusFranchise and careers enquiry routes
Questions
Web Development: your questions.
Do you build marketing websites, or only web apps?
Both, when the site has a job to do beyond describing you. Our project for Dancing Chef Biriyani is a mobile-first restaurant website with WhatsApp and click-to-call ordering, catering enquiries with a stated delivery radius, and separate franchise and careers enquiry routes. Each one sends a visitor straight to the right next step.
How do you make sure the site is fast?
We test on a mid-range phone over mobile data, not only on a fast office connection. Before launch there is a performance pass covering page weight, images and what loads first. Then we watch the first weeks of real traffic alongside you, as part of post-launch support sized to your stage.
How do you handle accessibility?
As part of how we build every screen, not as a check at the end. Keyboard navigation, colour contrast, clear form errors and labels for screen readers are worked on as each screen is built, because fixing them later means rework. If you have a particular accessibility standard to meet, tell us during discovery and we will plan the work around it.
Can you take over an existing web app?
Often, yes. We start by reading the code and running it, then tell you plainly what is worth keeping, what needs fixing first and whether a rebuild makes sense. That review happens in discovery, so you know where you stand before any sprint begins.
Why React and Next.js?
They are widely used and well supported, so your own developers — or whoever you hire next — can pick the code up without learning something unusual. Next.js can build pages on the server, so the content is already in the page when it arrives. It shows sooner, and search engines can read it without waiting to run JavaScript. If something simpler fits your project better, we will tell you during discovery.
How long does a web application take to build?
A focused first release is usually six to twelve weeks, after a discovery of one to two weeks. You see a working demo at the end of every two-week sprint, and you can re-scope between sprints as you learn from real users.
Further reading
From Step2Play Insights.
Product development
How to Turn a Business Idea into an MVP
A practical path from idea to a first version real users can try: what to build, what to leave out, and how to know it worked.
Software architecture
Monolith vs Microservices: What Should a Startup Choose?
Why most startups should begin with a well-structured monolith, the signs it is time to split, and how to keep that door open from day one.
Product development
How Much Does Custom Software Development Cost?
The factors that really drive the cost of custom software, why fixed quotes on vague scopes go wrong, and how a short discovery turns a guess into a budget.
Often paired with
Related services.
UI/UX Design
Research, flows, design systems and prototypes — so the first build is the right build.
Mobile App Development
iOS and Android apps with Flutter and native Swift, designed around how people really use their phones.
QA & Testing
Automated testing, penetration-test remediation and managed support once you are live.
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