Field notes

Notes from the build.

Name: DeenLytics — Biella
Address: Via Antonio Cristiano Vanni, 6, Biella, 13900, IT
Telephone: +393471341147
Price range: $$

The problems we were handed, the decisions we made, and what changed for the people using the software. Written by the team that shipped it.

Engineering
Why we moved our own website off WordPress
Our old site ran on a purchased theme and was attacked repeatedly. What we replaced it with, and the two decisions where our first plan was wrong.
September 6, 20265 min read
Engineering
Three languages, one codebase, and one that reads right to left
Translating the words is the easy part. The URL builder, the logical CSS, the icons that must not mirror, and the variable names hiding a direction.
September 5, 20266 min read
EngineeringIqra Online Madrasa
Why a public site, an admin panel and an API are three applications
Iqra Online Madrasa looks like one website. It is three applications with three different jobs — the reasoning, the cost, and when we would not do it.
September 2, 20266 min read
Case studyCBL Mart
Cash on delivery is not a fallback
Most eCommerce advice assumes the customer pays first. In Bangladesh that is backwards. Building CBL Mart around the payment habits that actually convert.
August 31, 20266 min read
Case studyFifteen Avenue
Taking an estate agency off the portals
Fifteen Avenue sells on personal knowledge of a small portfolio; a portal throws that away. What we built instead, in two languages and two cookies.
August 28, 20265 min read
EngineeringIqra Billing Software
Taking payments in the field: bKash, Laravel and an Android app
Fees arrived as cash and mobile money, reconciled by hand. We built a Laravel ledger, verified every bKash payment server-side, and shipped an Android app.
August 21, 20266 min read
Case studyTE Power
Selling a battery nobody can inspect
TE POWER makes batteries at its own plant and sells through dealers in 64 districts. None of it was visible online. Building a site for a trust purchase.
August 14, 20265 min read
Case studyCanberra Limited
From paper order books to a live order system
Canberra Limited's reps took orders on paper and phoned them in. We replaced that with one API and two front-ends — and here is why we split it that way.
August 7, 20266 min read

Notes from the build.

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