Software build guide

The software build decision, end to end

This guide answers the questions founders actually ask before they build: what to build, what it costs, who should build it, and what tends to go wrong. It is written by the people who ship the code, not a marketing team. The goal is fewer expensive surprises and less agency theatre.

Start with a Discovery sprint
13 guides
63 questions answered
4 languages

“Honest buyer guides, not landing pages dressed as advice.”

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What this guide is for

Building software is a series of decisions, and the costly mistakes happen early, before a line of code exists. These guides walk each decision in plain English: budget, build model, stack, process, and handover. No fluff, no listicles, just how we would think it through if it were our money.

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Guides grouped by the decision you need to make

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What these guides are not

  • Not lead-gen fluff dressed up as advice. We tell you when we are not the right fit.
  • Not generic listicles scraped from the web. These come from 75+ shipped products.
  • Not written by a marketing team. The people who ship the code wrote them.
  • Not a sales funnel. If a guide says do not build it yet, that is the honest answer.
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FAQs

Founders and operators deciding whether to build, what it will cost, and who should build it. It assumes you want straight answers, not a sales pitch. If you already have a mature engineering team and a clear plan, you probably do not need it.
We are a software agency, so yes, we do this work. But the guides are written to help you decide well even if that decision is not to hire us. Each one is honest about when Wavect is the wrong fit.
Each guide is reviewed and dated, and the facts come from products we have actually shipped from Tyrol, Austria, since 2018. Where a number is not something we can stand behind, we leave it out rather than invent it.
If you do not know the scope yet, start with the Discovery phase guide. If you know what you want but not how to build it, start with the build-model and cost guides. A short Discovery sprint, from EUR 3,500, settles most of it fast.

Still deciding how to build?

The cheapest way to avoid an expensive build mistake is a few weeks of clear thinking before you commit. That is what a Discovery phase is for.

Start with a Discovery sprint