WAVECT vs BYTEPOETS

Wavect or BYTEPOETS. A solid Graz dev shop inside a cruise-software group, or an independent founder-led product team.

BYTEPOETS is what a good regional dev shop looks like: building in-house in Graz since 2011, Flutter and web work with long-term support, values they publish and appear to mean. Since January 2025 the company is wholly owned by MarineXchange, a cruise-industry software group, with announced plans to grow the Graz team for the group's platform. We are independent, founder-owned, and the product call is part of our scope. Both facts matter to different buyers.

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“The shop was good. The question we never asked was whose roadmap their best people were on.”

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How they actually differ

Six dimensions where BYTEPOETS and Wavect actually diverge.

WAVECT DIMENSION ALTERNATIVE

Independent, founder-owned.

OWNERSHIP

100% subsidiary of MarineXchange Software GmbH since January 2025, per their published announcement.

Client work is the only work. Your roadmap is what our seniors are on.

PRIORITY ROADMAP

Group announcement cites growing Graz capacity for the group's cruise platform alongside client work.

Build plus product call: scope pushback, fractional CTO, roadmap ownership.

SCOPE

App and web development, UI/UX, agile consulting, per their published services.

Stack-agnostic across web, mobile, AI and on-chain. Flutter, Angular and .NET included.

STACK

Published stack: Flutter, Angular, .NET, Spring Boot, built in-house in Graz.

Weekly outcome fee or fixed-price Werkvertrag. No timesheets, cancel any week.

PRICING MODEL

Project engagements. Pricing not published.

75+ products since 2018, 5.0 on Clutch, seven figures secured on mainnet.

TRACK RECORD

Building since 2011; named references include Merkur Insurance per their published site.

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The real difference, in practice

BYTEPOETS has been writing software in Graz since 2011, all in-house, with a published stack of Flutter, Angular, .NET and Spring Boot, and values, sustainable, sovereign, valuable, that read like a shop that means them. Named references include Merkur Insurance. For a contained app or web build with long-term support from an established regional team, that is a respectable offer.

The fact a 2026 buyer should weigh: since January 2025, BYTEPOETS is 100 percent owned by MarineXchange Software GmbH, a cruise-industry software company, and the published announcement frames the deal around growing Graz development capacity for the group, including its MXP platform. Leadership stayed, and outside client work continues. The fair question is the one any wholly-owned subsidiary raises: when the owner’s platform needs capacity, where do the best people go? Ask them directly; they may have a good answer.

We are the independent version of the same size class. Founder-owned, nobody’s subsidiary, and the roadmap our seniors work on is yours. On top of the build we carry what a classic dev shop does not list: the product call, scope pushback, fractional CTO work, and specialist depth in AI and on-chain.

For a contained build with a stable regional shop, BYTEPOETS is a fair pick. For an independent senior team with product judgement in the contract, see how we run build engagements.

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When each is the better call

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When Wavect is the better call

  • You want your vendor independent, with no parent company whose platform can outrank your roadmap.
  • You need the product call alongside the build: scope pushback, fractional CTO, build-or-kill decisions.
  • Your product needs AI or on-chain depth beyond a classic app-and-web stack.
  • You want outcome billing with a weekly cancel option instead of a project quote.
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When BYTEPOETS is the better call

  • You are in Graz or Styria and want an established shop you can sit down with, with fifteen years of local history.
  • Fifteen years of code maintained by the shop that wrote it counts for you. We build Flutter, Angular and .NET too; their edge is the long uninterrupted support history in one place, not the stack.
  • Group backing reads as stability to you: a parent with its own software business standing behind the shop.
  • You are in or near the cruise and maritime domain, where their owner's platform expertise is a feature, not a question.

A contained build with a stable Graz shop, BYTEPOETS is a fair pick. An independent senior team with the product call in scope, talk to us.

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Relevant Wavect work

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FAQs

Not by itself, and we are not claiming it is. The announcement says leadership stayed and client work continues. It is simply a structural fact: a wholly-owned subsidiary balances its owner’s platform needs against outside clients, and a buyer should ask how that balance is managed before signing.
Same class: small Austrian teams, double digits not hundreds. The difference is shape, not size. They are a classic dev shop with design and agile consulting. We are a product team with founders on every call, outcome billing, and AI and on-chain depth.
Neither publishes project pricing, so honestly: we do not know. Our entry points are public, €3,500 fixed-price discovery, weekly retainers from €400. Scope the same project with both and compare what you get per euro, not just the total.
Because the scarce resource is senior attention. An independent shop sells all of it to clients. A subsidiary’s seniors are also the owner’s bench. That is not dishonest, it is just a different structure, and you are entitled to know which one you are buying.
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