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February 6, 2024

How to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers?

They say that a salesperson without enthusiasm is just another clerk. While making deals is a craft in its own right, there’s more to it than meets the eye. The 'how' of the sales process matters tremendously. And just like enthusiasm powers the efforts, good tools make for a smoother ride. If you’re in a solar photovoltaic (PV) niche, performant software should be as important for you as talented salespeople. So, let’s look at how to build a sales-accelerating platform for residential and commercial PV installers.

May 9, 2025

How to keep a mobile app stable as it grows?

When your users rate your mobile app low on the stability scale, it’s not only the question of technical issues that is brought to the fore. Low app ratings affect your business acutely, making the extent to which your users can rely on the product at hand a crucial issue for tech executives and their developer teams. How to develop technically stable mobile apps that are worthy of user appreciation and support your ROI at the same time? Let’s find out!

March 19, 2025

How to secure Flutter apps? Key insights

Feeling that you and your developer teams could do a better job of securing your platforms from attacks? You’ve come to the right place! Explore our security tips for Flutter apps as well as native Android and iOS apps.

2019-06-07

9 Best Practices to implement in REST API development

Although the RESTful style of Application Programming Interface is with us from the year 2000, it does not have any real guidelines or standards of API development. We have six constraints of a RESTful system: Client-server architecture, Statelessness, Cacheability, Layered system, Code on demand and a Uniform interface. But REST is just a design approach and not a framework or standard per se. Now it is easy to imagine that over the years the developers have applied multiple different approaches, and tried a variety of methods for delivering better REST API solutions. Some of them turned out not to be so great, others were adopted and are still widely used. It’s safe to say that over these 18-19 years, the software development community has worked out some key best practices that are either derived from the Roy Fielding’s dissertation or constituted through a trial and error process. Here are the 9 best practices you should consider when preparing the REST API.

2019-06-05

May the force of software development be with you - summary of May

If you ask anyone in Poland what’s the first thing that pops up to mind when thinking about May, hard work is not the first thing they mention. After all, with spring break, May is the month of relaxing, going on vacation, and giving yourself a break. But, even with that, our software house managed to get plenty of things done - check them out below!

2019-06-05

Product Design Process guide (Update)

Product Design stems from the need for extending the engagement of UX designers in the whole software development process. Enlarging theirs’ role to go beyond the pre-production stage and to include in-depth expertise not only about users but also business background translates strongly to rising the chance of achieving commercial success. The character and level of this engagement are changing due to the project advancement so to plan UX-driven development we should work out a specific Product Design Process. Of course, experienced designers will modify it to adjust to the requirements of a particular project but there are some commonly applied elements which should always be taken into consideration.