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Should you start from a ready-made platform or commission custom software?

Start from the catalogue when your product follows a known business model - a marketplace, a streaming service, a booking or delivery app - and what sets you apart is brand, pricing, market and a handful of features. One of our 90+ ready-made platforms then ships with its web app, admin panel and mobile apps in 6 working days at its fixed catalogue price, on the stack that product was built with.

Commission custom software when the rules are the product: an internal workflow nobody sells, a pricing or matching engine, integrations with your ERP or a legacy database, or data that has to follow your own design, not someone else's. Custom work takes 2-8 weeks and starts from $3,699, depending on the work. Some clients combine the two: launch on a ready-made platform, then add custom modules quoted separately.

How does Miracuves scope a custom software project?

Scoping turns an idea into a document you can price and test against. In the first sessions we map who uses the software, what each role may do, which systems it must talk to and which business rules cannot bend. That becomes a written scope, split into milestones, with a fixed quote for each signed before any payment. It records:

• User roles and permissions, written as a matrix rather than a paragraph
• Every third-party system - payments, CRM, ERP, SMS, maps - and who holds each account
• The data you migrate in, and the shape it arrives in
• Targets that are not features: expected users, response times, data residency and compliance scope
• The stack chosen for each layer, and what counts as done for each milestone

What happens between kickoff and handover?

Work starts inside a pipeline, not on a laptop: a repository, CI that runs the tests on every pull request, and staging and production environments defined as code. Every 5-7 days you see a working demo on staging rather than a slide, and priorities can change between sprints without renegotiating the whole project.

Before launch the software goes through functional, integration, load and security testing. Handover is a package: the repository with its full history, setup and deployment guides, API documentation, architecture notes that explain why things are built the way they are, and a runbook for the first weeks. After launch, 60 days of support cover defects in the delivered scope, and a retainer from $2,299/month covers new work.

Can a prototype that breaks in production become maintainable software?

Usually, yes - once we know what is worth keeping. Prototypes made quickly, often with AI code generators or no-code tools, tend to fail in the same places: no tests, API keys shipped to the browser, a database schema changed by hand, business rules copied into several screens, and no logs when something goes wrong.

We start with a short audit and a written recommendation for each part: keep, refactor or rebuild. Screens and flows users already like are often kept; the data layer and authentication are the parts most often rebuilt. The result is a codebase with versioned migrations, tests on the rules that matter, secrets held on the server, error tracking and a deploy pipeline another engineer can follow. Our blog covers the fix or rebuild decision in more depth.

Who owns the code, the servers and the accounts?

You do, from day one. The IP assignment is signed at project start, and cloud accounts on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure are opened in your company's name, so the billing, the root or owner access and the audit logs are yours. The infrastructure-as-code, pipelines and scripts we write are handed over with the application code, along with the admin credentials for every service the software uses.

Nothing proprietary keeps you with us: no private runtime, no licence fee, no platform only we can deploy to. The software is built on open, widely used stacks, and the written scope and architecture notes describe how it works, so any competent team can take it over. Managed services such as a hosted database remain the provider's products, running under your account.

Which Miracuves service fits your project best?

This page covers software development as a whole. When most of the work falls in one area, the specialist service is the better starting point:

• Web app development - browser-based products, customer portals and dashboards
• Custom mobile app development - iOS and Android apps built to your specification
• API development - APIs and integrations that other systems or partners call
• SaaS development - multi-tenant products sold by subscription
• DevOps engineering - pipelines, infrastructure-as-code and release automation for software you already run

Is an in-house or offshore team a better choice than Miracuves?

Hire in-house when the software is your long-term core and you can fund a team for years: recruiting and onboarding take months, but the knowledge stays in the company. Hourly offshore teams suit a stable, well-documented specification with someone on your side who manages them day to day. Low-code tools suit internal tools with simple logic and few users.

Miracuves sits between these: a company-run team with a written scope and a fixed quote, delivery in 2-8 weeks, and a handover built so your future in-house engineers can take over. A common path is to build version one with us, then hire the people who will run it.