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Web app development company for businesses

As a web app development company, we build web applications that replace spreadsheets, email threads and disconnected tools with one place to work. Staff and customers sign in from any browser, and the application reads and writes the systems you already run.

What it is and when it fits

A web application is software people open in the browser. Nobody installs anything, everyone uses the same version, and changes are live as soon as we ship them. We build in TypeScript with React and Next.js, on Postgres, with APIs in TypeScript or Python. Much of the software a business runs on is a web application of some kind, such as an internal tool, a customer portal, a SaaS product or an operations dashboard.

A custom web application makes sense when a process has outgrown its spreadsheets, when several tools are stitched together by hand, or when no product fits how you work. When people need the camera, offline access or push notifications on their phone, a mobile app is the better front end, and it can share the same back end. For a few simple forms on one data source, a low-code builder can be enough, and we will tell you so.

What we build

A web application we built: Moneyline.

Moneyline is an open-source platform that reads and processes financial documents, and it is live at moneyline.co (opens in a new tab). Besides its API and MCP server, it has two web applications that finance and operations teams work in: an API dashboard and a visual workflow builder. Both call the same services as the API, so a step in a workflow and an API endpoint behave the same way.

Operators put document workflows together on a canvas without writing code: a trigger, then steps to classify, parse, validate and enrich, each with its own settings such as a confidence threshold and OCR fallback.

Underneath both are user roles, single sign-on and an audit log. Read the full Moneyline case study.

API dashboard
Moneyline API dashboard with request volume, latency, documents parsed, API keys and request logs
Workflow builder
Moneyline visual workflow builder with a webhook trigger and steps that receive, classify and parse a document

API dashboard. Usage, API keys per environment, billing and request logs.

Workflow builder. Each block on the canvas is a service the API also exposes.

Screenshots show sample data.

When a web application is the right choice.

If you needChooseWhy
Staff to work at a desk across several systemsA web applicationOne screen for the whole process, nothing to install
People in the field with the camera, GPS or offline accessA mobile app on the same back endDevice access a browser does not give you
A few simple forms on one data sourceA low-code builderQuicker and cheaper for simple cases
A process your whole sector runs on a standard productOff-the-shelf softwareNo build to maintain

Some kinds of web application have their own page: internal tools, customer portals and SaaS products. For phones, see mobile app development.

How it works

  1. 01

    Map the work

    We watch how the process runs today, collect the spreadsheets and tools involved, and agree what the first release must do.

  2. 02

    Design with the users

    We sketch the key screens and test them with the people who will use them before anything is built.

  3. 03

    Build in short cycles

    Every week or two you use working software on a staging environment, connected to test copies of your systems.

  4. 04

    Go live and keep improving

    We move your data across and run next to the old process until the team is confident, then monitor, fix and keep building or hand over to your team.

Related work

A guide to start with

Further reading

Common questions

Talk through one process with the founder