If you can dream it, we can build it

What is WebDev

Web development is a much broader term than “website creation” and is meant to entail a necessarily greater degree of complexity. For example, a website like this one doesn’t actually need to do a whole lot. It renders a page for your web browser, it allows you navigate around pages with hyperlinks, and it even has a small amount of javascript (code), but you can’t really interact with it. At least at the time of my writing, there is no ability, as in the case of something like Facebook or Twitter (now “X”), “post” something here. There is no comment section, and there isn’t even a like button on this blog (sadly! Right?). There is no user authentication, so you can’t log in, and I can’t give you access to secret, your-eyes-only information.

Simplicity can be good for some things! It is great for reliability, maintainability, performance, and cost. However, it is not great for usefulness. That’s where real web development (“webdev”) comes in.

Examples

As I hinted earlier, Facebook and Twitter/X are great examples of what I’ll call a “web application” or “webapp,” which requires “web development” to build. The key distinction is in both form and function: interactivity and its requisite infrastructure.

In order to permit interaction, a webapp needs a server, which users can communicate with. The webapp server not only sends your computer (the “client”) a webpage, as this website does, it “populates” it just for you. When you open Twitter/X, you don’t see just any tweet/post, you see specific tweets/posts that have been curated for you algorithmically by a server. When you tweet/post on Twitter/X, you are allowed to do so under your own account name becasue a server has authenticated your identity and stores a little file on your web browser saying so. The Twitter/X website, Android app, iOS app, Windowsapp, MacOS app, and even this website, via the embedded tweet/post widget below, are all clients that communicate through the same server.

Owl bet you'll lose this staring contest 🦉 pic.twitter.com/eJh4f2zncC

— San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (@sandiegozoo) October 26, 2021

While this and my personal website are relatively simple websites, I have a sample portfolio of more intricate and interactive webapps we’ve built. You can check them out here.

Solveware Web Development Service

So, what can you use a webapp to do?

Just about anything.

From a custom, new inventory management system that your customers can interact with to make orders to a facial-recognition-powered employee authentication and security alert system–if it runs on more than one device, it is probably a webapp. Like I said, it’s a pretty broad term!

Made to Order

As way say on the home page:

> If you can dream it, we can build it.

If you have an idea for your business, and its too complex for the developer-for-hire you found on Fiverr or Upwork who doesn’t speak english, we’d love to hear about it. Since you already know what you want, we’ll help you figure out the how, and then make it a reality.

CTO as a Service

If you have a vague idea of what you want, but you need a bit of help with the specifics, you might find value in the Solveware Advisory Service, or “CTO as a Service” as we sometimes call it. Basically, we will step in and play the role of the internal tech expert you wish your team had! This means we won’t necessarily be the ones building the final product unless you request it, but we’ll scope out the project, contract with all the necessary parties on your behalf and with your approval, and ultimately make sure you end up with a successful project.

Bespoke Business Automation

And if you don’t have anything particular in mind, but you want to see how your business could work better for you, your customers, and your employees, we’d be happy to help!

When you know you want a suit, and you don’t want to get it off the rack, you go bespoke. The tailor takes your measurements and creates something just for you. Like the tailor, we start by sizing up your business: understanding your workflows, your customers, your revenue drivers, and your bottlenecks. Then, we’ll work with you to see if there’s any room for technology, whether its to ease pain points, reduce labor through automation, or drive more customers and revenue. You can learn more about our business automation service here.

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