Integrations and automation
Online booking through Google Calendar, without a database
How the website reads free times straight from the reception calendar and where this approach stops.
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Practical notes on pricing, interfaces, integrations, e-shops and working with AI. We write about decisions that affect day-to-day operations, not about general trends.
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AI and development
How to prepare your website so ChatGPT can find you too
What customers should find on your website, what to check technically and how to track results.
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AI and development
Why not build your website or app yourself with AI?
When AI is genuinely enough, and where the work it cannot do for you begins.
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Decisions and pricing
A website, an e-shop, or a custom application?
Four questions that show what you actually need to ask for.
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What should a brief for an application include?
No technical spec needed. Describe how work runs, who does it and what is retyped.
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Decisions and pricing
How much does an internal business system cost?
What drives the price, where to start and how to work out payback.
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Apps and UX
When is a custom portal worth it?
Signs that email no longer serves your customers, and how to start a portal small.
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Integrations and automation
What to prepare before connecting accounting and your e-shop
Numbering, VAT, returns, payments and errors: what to decide before development.
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Websites and WordPress
WordPress: an add-on or a new site?
How to tell whether a custom add-on is enough or it is time for a new site.
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Websites and WordPress
How to move an old website without losing its addresses?
An address inventory, a 301 redirect map and what to watch after launch.
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Decisions and pricing
How much does a custom application cost?
Four model budgets from 2,300 EUR and what drives the price.
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Apps and UX
Loyalty cards in Apple and Google Wallet
How Apple and Google Wallet differ, what card updates can do and who pays for cards issued.
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E-commerce
Booking system: off the shelf or custom
When an off-the-shelf system is enough, when an add-on, and when a custom solution starts to make sense.
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Integrations and automation
Importing property listings onto your website
Why this kind of integration keeps one source of truth and where duplicates come from.
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E-commerce
When WooCommerce is enough and when it is not
The real limits are not in the product count but in the rules of the sale.
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Apps and UX
Interface design before development
Why we start with the user’s task and what that saves later in development.
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AI and development
AI in development: where it helps and where it does not
Prototyping, alternative solutions and the line where the team takes responsibility.
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E-commerce
Grow the e-shop you have, or build a new one?
How we decide between adapting a platform and building a custom solution.
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