Backend development, databases, sign-in and API integrations
For founders and teams that need the secure engine behind an app, or two systems that should talk.
The secure engine behind your product: databases, user accounts, APIs and connections to the services you rely on.
This service is already chosen when you start from here.
An app asks for data. The API checks who is asking, reads the database, tells your other systems, and answers.
Problems we usually meet
If one of these sounds familiar, this service is a good place to start.
Your app team needs an API and database built properly.
A documented API, a designed database and sign-in with roles, delivered so your team can build on it.
Two systems hold the same data and never agree.
An integration that moves data between them automatically and records what it did.
Nobody knows whether the data is secure or backed up.
Access rules reviewed table by table, backups on a schedule, and monitoring that tells someone when it fails.
What we can deliver
App backend
Database, sign-in, file storage and notifications for a web or mobile app.
Partner API connection
Your system exchanging orders, payments or records with a partner's system.
Messaging
SMS, email or WhatsApp messages triggered by events in your system.
These are kinds of work we take on, not past clients.
In more detail
A good backend is what keeps an app fast, secure and easy to extend. We design databases, build APIs, set up authentication and connect your product to external services such as SMS, email, maps, accounting tools or government and partner systems.
We work with modern managed platforms so you are not paying for servers you do not need, and we document everything so another developer can pick it up later.
If you already have a frontend or a mobile app team, we can supply just the backend.
How scoping works
Before any price, a short conversation and a written scope. You see exactly what is included before you agree to anything.
We ask
- Which apps or systems need the backend
- The third-party services involved, and their documentation
- Who can sign in, and what each role may do
- How much data you expect in the first year
You receive
- Data model and API outline
- Integration plan checked against the providers' real documentation
- Security and backup approach
- A quote per integration or per backend release
How the price is set
Integrations are scoped against the third party's documentation before quoting, because that is where surprises hide.
We scope integrations against the real third-party documentation before quoting, because that is where surprises hide.
Budget and timeline you share in the enquiry help shape the proposal; they are not a price or a delivery promise.
The whole project journeyWhat affects scope and price
We do not publish price lists, because two projects with the same name rarely have the same scope. These are the things that move it, and the scope conversation settles each one before a quote.
- How many apps or systems the backend serves
- The size of the data model and how sensitive the data is
- Sign-in methods, roles and permission rules
- Each third-party service, and the quality of its documentation and test environment
- The number of users and records expected in the first year
- Backups, monitoring and the depth of security review you need
- Whether your own developers build against it or we deliver the whole product
How delivery runs
Scoping starts from the third parties' real documentation, because that is where surprises hide. We then design the data model and the API outline, build in stages your developers can test against, and set up backups and monitoring before launch. Everything is documented so another team can pick it up later.
- DiscoveryA conversation about your business, not a sales pitch.
- ScopeThe idea becomes a list you can read and price.
- DesignYou see and click it before anyone writes code.
- BuildWorking software every week, not a surprise at the end.
- TestingChecked on real phones and slow connections before launch.
- LaunchLive, in your name, with a handover.
- SupportSoftware keeps working after the launch excitement.
Questions owners ask
Can you work with our existing app developers?
Yes. We can supply only the backend and API documentation your team builds against.
Which platforms do you use?
Managed Postgres databases and serverless functions in most projects, chosen so you do not pay for idle servers.
Ready to scope this?
Tell us what you need in the guided enquiry. It takes a few minutes on a phone and you get a reference number straight away.