SaaS platforms
Multi-tenant applications with subscriptions, authentication and role-based access. We take on the tenancy and billing plumbing so your team works on the product.
Web applications for businesses that have outgrown the spreadsheet
We build web applications for businesses that already have customers and a process that is starting to strain. The front end is React, Next.js or Vue; the back end is Django or FastAPI on PostgreSQL. The source is yours at the end.
First release in two to four weeks, typical.
What we get asked to build
Most requests are one of these. If yours is not, the first call will tell us both quickly.
Online stores
Custom storefronts with inventory, payment processing and order fulfilment. Headless only where the catalogue is large enough to justify it.
Customer portals
Self-service accounts that take the repeat questions off your support line. Order tracking, documents and messages in one place the customer can log into.
Internal tools
The spreadsheet your operations team has outgrown, rebuilt as software. Purpose-built screens for the three tasks people actually do all day.
What the work covers
Frontend
Interfaces in React, Next.js and Vue, typed end to end and designed small screen first, that hold up on a mid-range Android phone on a shop counter.
Backend
Server-side work in Python on Django or FastAPI, with PostgreSQL as the system of record and background jobs that can be retried.
The stack, stated plainly
Boring on purpose. Everything here is something a future team can hire for.
| Layer | Tools |
|---|---|
| Frontend | React, Next.js, Vue, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS |
| Backend | Python: Django, FastAPI. PostgreSQL as the system of record |
| Infrastructure | Google Cloud, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions |
The web application we run ourselves
Polaris is a Vue front end on Django and PostgreSQL, used at shop counters every trading day, with every action behind a permission and the reports read straight off the ledger.
How a first release runs
There is a demo at the end of every week. If a week slips, you hear it that week.
- Week 1
Discovery and wireframes
We sit with the people who will use the thing, write down what the software has to do, and put rough screens in front of you.
- Week 2
Design and frontend shell
The visual direction lands and the real screens go up against mock data. This is the week you can still change your mind cheaply.
- Week 3
Backend and integrations
Schema, APIs and the connections to whatever you already run. The demo at the end of this week works on real records.
- Week 4
Testing and launch
Load checks, accessibility pass, deploy pipeline and handover. Then we watch the first week of live traffic with you.
What you hold at handover
If we stopped working together the day after launch, this is what you would still have.
- The full repository, with the commit history and no vendor lock on the code
- Technical docs, API reference and a deployment guide someone else could follow
- A performance budget agreed up front and checked on every build
- Structured data, meta tags and Core Web Vitals measured on real devices
What building Polaris taught us
- 3 min read
Optimizing Django ORM queries for large applications
How I cut query time in a Django POS billing system with select_related, prefetch_related, bulk writes and query profiling.
Read the post - 6 min read
Every abstraction I regret
Abstractions I added before I needed them, why each one got worse over time, and the rule I use now before extracting anything.
Read the post - 7 min read
Polaris ERP architecture: scaling lessons from Pakistani retail
How Polaris ERP is built: a Vue front end on Django and PostgreSQL, tenant isolation in the ORM, connection pooling, a read replica for reports and staged deploys.
Read the post
Questions we get asked
Tell us which spreadsheet your team has outgrown.
A 30 minute call. We look at what you run now and what it costs you in time, and sketch what a first release would cover.
Book a call- First reply
- same working day
- Hours
- Set to your time zone
- Built in
- Lahore, Pakistan