Guides to building software for a specific industry. How deep each one goes follows real proof: e-commerce and PropTech draw on platforms we built; regulated fintech and health topics are held until they are reviewed.
A guide to growing an online store with organic search instead of ads: how product and category pages earn traffic, the Product structured data and speed that help them rank, the content that pulls buyers in, and how organic sales compound.
Read articleA headless e-commerce SaaS splits a fast storefront from a commerce API behind it. The architecture that makes it fast, where it tends to break (stale cache, inconsistent prices, webhook ordering), and the test plan (unit, API and Playwright) that keeps the money paths correct while the front end stays quick.
Read articleA subscription store charges the same customer again and again, so the hard part is not the first sale but every renewal after it: proration, pauses and skips, failed-payment dunning and cancellations. The data model, the billing engine, and the test plan that keeps recurring revenue correct.
Read articleA PropTech SaaS MVP wins by shipping one workflow properly, not every feature badly. How to choose that workflow, the stack and data model, the roles and payments, and the test plan (listings, money, isolation) that lets the MVP grow into the full product instead of being rebuilt.
Read articleA property management SaaS serves many landlords or agencies from one platform, so the highest-risk bug is one customer seeing another customer’s tenants, leases or rent. The tenancy model, row-level security in PostgreSQL, and the QA that proves isolation holds on every build, plus the rent, lease and role paths.
Read articleA real-estate CRM fails not on features but on adoption: if lead capture is slow or follow-up is clumsy on a phone, agents go back to their notes. How to build a CRM SaaS they will use, keep each agency isolated, route leads fast, and test the paths (capture, routing, mobile) that decide whether it gets used.
Read articleHow to build a FinTech SaaS: a build-versus-rent decision for payments, identity verification, the ledger and reconciliation, and the QA that proves the money logic before launch. Build what encodes your rules; rent the commodities and the PCI scope. Engineering guidance only: whether your product needs a licence or meets a regime is for your adviser.
Read articleA returns system loses money in the maths, not the form: refunding tax you never owe back, refunding original shipping by accident, forgetting restocking fees, and a store-credit balance that drifts. The ledger model, the refund calculation, and the tests that keep every refund exact.
Read articleA promotions engine is a rule evaluator, not an if-statement. The rule model (conditions, discount, limits), how stacking and exclusions work, why usage limits leak under concurrency, and the Playwright and unit tests that stop a single-use code being redeemed a thousand times.
Read articleSeller onboarding is a state machine with two gates: can this seller list, and can this seller be paid. KYC usually runs through your payment provider, not you. How to model the states, drive them from verification webhooks, and test that an unverified seller can never receive a payout.
Read articleAn OMS is the orchestration layer above your cart: one order, many fulfilment states, split shipments, holds, edits and cancellations. The state machine, why an append-only event log beats an editable status column, and the tests that stop an order being shipped and refunded at once.
Read articleA points balance customers trust is never a number you edit. The append-only ledger that makes it defensible, how earning, redeeming and expiry become ledger entries, why double-spend needs a row lock, and the tests that keep the balance equal to the sum of its entries.
Read articleA store admin that works in a demo can still be unusable at 500 orders a day: slow search, no bulk actions, every role seeing everything, and a dangerous button one click from a disaster. The operability features a team needs, the patterns behind them, and how to test them.
Read articleA headless CMS lets your marketing team edit landing pages, banners and product copy without a deploy, while the commerce engine stays the source of truth for price and stock. How to model the content, build a safe draft-preview-publish workflow, and test that a draft never reaches a live shopper.
Read articleA viewings scheduling system has one bug that embarrasses an agency in front of a buyer: two appointments on the same agent or the same property at the same time. The data model, a PostgreSQL exclusion constraint that makes the overlap impossible, time-zone and reschedule edge cases, and the concurrency tests that prove it holds.
Read articleAn offer, lease or disclosure that gets signed out of order, or changes after signing, is a dispute waiting to happen. The signing state machine, a tamper-evident audit trail in PostgreSQL, how to integrate an e-sign provider safely, and the tests that prove an executed document can never be altered. General engineering guidance; confirm e-signature validity with your adviser.
Read articleA pricing tool that spits out a single number no one can explain loses the agent the listing. Build it from comparable sales with transparent adjustments, show the working, and be honest about where the data comes from. The data model, an explainable comparables method, the limits (no MLS, not a formal valuation), and how to test it. General guidance, not valuation advice.
Read articleA single landlord’s maintenance tracker and a SaaS that many property-management firms pay for are different products. The second needs per-firm isolation, SLA timers that escalate on time, a vendor side, and billing. The data model, the SLA and escalation engine, tenant isolation, and the tests that stop a ticket going quiet for two weeks.
Read articleA lead that reaches the form but never the CRM is a deal you paid for and lost. This is about the funnel between capture and CRM: ingesting portal and webform leads, deduplicating them, mapping fields, and delivering each one exactly once even when a source retries. The data model, idempotent ingestion, and the tests that prove no lead is dropped or doubled.
Read articleFor most landlords with under 50 units, buying beats building. How AppFolio and Buildium compare for small portfolios on their published pricing, what an off-the-shelf tool really costs over three years, when a spreadsheet is enough, and the two cases where building makes sense, with PropDesk, built for the 1-50 unit market, as the example.
Read articleShopify's eight real limits in 2026, each quoted from Shopify's own documentation: product options and variants, checkout customisation, custom Functions, B2B catalogs, payments outside Shopify Payments countries, multiple sellers, API rate limits, and staff and approval workflows. For each, the workaround on Shopify and the signal that it is time to go custom.
Read articleWhen a custom learning management system is worth building and when Moodle or a hosted platform is the right call, the modules every LMS needs, a PostgreSQL data model with attempts stored as events, where LTI, SCORM and xAPI fit, a first-version scope and the build order.
Read articleHow to build the rent collection part of a property management product: card versus ACH bank debit on Stripe's published pricing, how a bank payment moves from processing to paid or failed, late fees that respect the grace period and payments in transit, reminders that send exactly once, and the tests that prove it, from PropDesk.
Read articleShopify B2B now runs on every plan. What Basic, Grow and Advanced give you for tiered pricing and net terms, what still needs Plus, how to design three catalogs, how to handle credit limits Shopify does not enforce, and when a custom wholesale portal like Sundor Skin makes more sense than paying for Plus.
Read articleAn honest comparison from a studio that builds custom marketplaces: what Sharetribe costs in 2026, what its hosted backend and Stripe-based payments give you, the five signs you have outgrown it, and what a custom build changes, with TheSkinProof as the worked example.
Read articleWhen an agent or brokerage should buy a real estate CRM, when building one pays off, what a subscription really costs over three years, and the order to build a custom CRM in: lead capture, routing, agent dashboards and documents, with lessons from BlockEstate.
Read articleWhat a Dubai real estate platform has to connect to and how: the Dubai Land Department's API Gateway and its Ejari, Trakheesi and Mollak APIs, who is eligible to subscribe and what it costs, designing an Arabic right-to-left product, and the UAE payment providers to plan for.
Read articleThe five systems behind a tutoring marketplace like Preply or Cambly, how the commission model works, how to prevent double-booked lessons across time zones, what live video costs to buy rather than build, how to take payment and pay tutors, and how reviews and trust are earned.
Read articleHeadless Shopify keeps Shopify as the commerce engine and checkout, and replaces the theme with a front end you build. What Hydrogen, Oxygen and the Storefront API change, what you give up, five signals it is worth it, and the cases where a theme or a custom platform fits better.
Read articleThe tenant portal features worth building first: paying rent with a clear status, maintenance requests by priority, lease and document access, and payment history with receipts. How the tenant view fits alongside landlord, contractor and admin roles, how to sign tenants in, what to leave for later, and the tests that prove a tenant sees only their own records, from PropDesk.
Read articleZillow is many products on top of years of data, so a startup should not try to copy it. What a Zillow-style site is made of, which parts are realistic for a first release, where listings come from when you have no MLS access, how map search works and what it costs on Google's published pricing, and what BlockEstate's 6-week MVP shows.
Read articleHow to build the maintenance side of a property management product: requests submitted by priority, one owner at every step, contractor suggestions by trade and property, a status the tenant can see, escalation when a job stalls, safe photo uploads and the tests that prove it, with PropDesk's maintenance tracking and contractor portal as the example.
Read articleMoodle is free, open source and used by more than 146,000 registered sites, so a custom LMS has to earn its cost. What the GPL does and does not require of you, what running Moodle really involves (releases, PHP and database versions, plugins), where a custom build wins, the hybrid route through LTI and web services, and a decision table.
Read articleHow brokerages route each inquiry to one agent: the rule order (existing owner, listing agent, territory, language, round-robin), how to keep round-robin fair under load, how a response SLA reassigns ignored leads, a TypeScript sample, how to test it, and when a CRM you can buy already does the job.
Read articleAppFolio's Core plan states a 50-unit minimum, so smaller US portfolios need another tool. Four alternatives that publish small-portfolio pricing, which one fits which kind of landlord, what to check before switching, how to move your data, and the narrow cases where custom software is the right alternative.
Read articleWhat a white-label property portal for agencies is made of: one multi-tenant platform, a branded site and domain per agency, listings and leads isolated in the database, the market data UK and UAE listings must carry, what portal syndication really involves, and what BlockEstate's 6-week MVP shows.
Read articleHow the big UAE and UK property portals work, the features a first release needs, a reference architecture with a listing publish gate, a cost table, and a plain split between what you can build and what is licensed: portal listings, DLD data, Land Registry data and MLS feeds.
Read articleHow an off-plan developer's sales system should work: every unit as one record with one status, reservation holds that cannot double-book (with a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE example), payment plans stored as instalment rows, broker allocation and permissions, the document workflow for each sale, and when an off-the-shelf CRM is enough.
Read articleWhat a real estate web platform for Saudi Arabia should include first, what it costs in riyals line by line, how REGA's FAL licences, the Ejar lease platform and Wafi's off-plan rules shape the data model, how to plan an Ejar connection when no public API is documented, and what RAITHub's 6-week BlockEstate MVP shows about scope.
Read articleWhen an Australian agency or PropTech founder should buy property management software and when to build it: PropertyMe pricing in AUD, what custom costs over three years, why trust accounting is the scope item that decides everything, PayTo and BECS Direct Debit for rent, APP 8 when your developers are offshore, and honest time-zone overlap with Dhaka.
Read articleHow co-living operators and PropTech founders should approach co-living management software: why room-level leasing breaks unit-based tools, how to model rooms and beds so nothing is double-let, how to split utility bills fairly in integer cents, move-in proration with Stripe, the roles and scheduled jobs a platform needs, and when buying an operator platform is the better call.
Read articleWhat a student accommodation (PBSA) management system has to do and how to build one: bed inventory, academic-year and term-based contracts, a booking hold that stops two students paying for one bed, instalments in integer cents, the scheduled jobs behind rebooking season, the questions to settle with your adviser, and when an established platform is the better buy.
Read articleWhen strata managers and PropTech founders in Australia and British Columbia should buy strata software and when a custom build makes sense: how NSW, Victoria, Queensland and BC differ, the multi-role portals a strata product needs, a build vs buy table, levy apportionment by unit entitlement in code, and the parts, such as trust accounting, you should almost never build.
Read articleWhen a condo corporation, BC strata, US homeowners association or management company should buy SaaS and when custom software earns its cost: what Ontario and British Columbia rules mean for records, meetings and reserve funds, the features and roles the software needs, fee collection with pre-authorized debit, and a 3-year cost comparison you can run with your own numbers.
Read articleWhen a commercial landlord, managing agent or PropTech founder in the UK, Australia or Canada should build custom property management software: how service charges, outgoings and CAM differ by market, how to apportion costs across units in integer cents, how to model one lease over several units, how to automate rent reviews with caps and collars, and what year-end reconciliation has to produce.
Read articleAn engineering guide to the part of a Kenyan rental management system that decides whether rent is paid: M-Pesa Paybill account references built from unit codes, storing every Safaricom confirmation once, allocating partial payments and overpayments, and a daily match against the M-Pesa and bank statements. Includes a TypeScript allocation function, SQL, and an honest note on what RAITHub has and has not shipped.
Read articleAn engineering guide for Nigerian landlords, estate managers and PropTech founders: how to model rent paid yearly or half-yearly, keep service charges apart from rent, give agents and caretakers the right permissions, issue numbered receipts, and scope Paystack, Flutterwave, bank transfer and cash as payment rails. Includes code, tables and an honest note on what RAITHub has and has not shipped.
Read articleMost small retailers should buy inventory software, and this guide shows what current plans cost in USD, GBP and AUD. It then sets out the four situations where custom inventory pays for itself, with a FEFO batch allocation sample in PostgreSQL and TypeScript, an idempotent stock ledger, and when to stay on a subscription.
Read articleAn honest guide for small US and UK nonprofits choosing donor management software: what you actually need, what vendors publish on their pricing pages, when to extend a tool with a small integration, the donation data model if you do build, recurring gifts with Stripe, receipts, consent, migration, and why most small charities should not build at all.
Read articleA DMS runs the dealership back office: deals, F&I, service, parts and accounting. Buy that core. This guide covers what CDK Global, Reynolds and Reynolds, Tekion and Keyloop include, what dealer groups in the US, UK and Australia build around it (lead routing, a used-car inventory site, trade-in flows, data sync), a buy/build table and a TypeScript inventory-sync sample.
Read articleWhat retail software development actually covers: one stock ledger that stores, web and marketplaces all write to, multi-location reservation in SQL, a POS-to-web sync that is safe to retry, how in-person payments through Stripe Terminal fit in, what drives the cost, and when a POS subscription is the better answer.
Read articleA practical guide for schools, school groups and EdTech founders: the modules a school management system needs, how it differs from an LMS, when to buy instead of build, a PostgreSQL schema that stops timetable clashes and duplicate attendance marks, roles for staff, parents and students, fees in many currencies, student data rules, and what a first release costs.
Read articleWhat small car rental businesses need from software (bookings, fleet availability, deposit holds, damage and extras, multi-currency pricing), what off-the-shelf tools cost, a PostgreSQL exclusion constraint that makes double-booking impossible, a Stripe manual-capture deposit sample with its authorisation windows, and when to build instead of buy.
Read articleA practical guide to telecom billing software for ISPs, WISPs, small MVNOs and VoIP providers: what the system has to do (CDR rating, plans and bundles, proration, taxes, invoicing, dunning), what Splynx, Sonar, Chargebee and Stripe Billing cost, and how to build the custom part safely, with SQL and TypeScript for idempotent CDR ingestion and rating in integer units.
Read articleGovernment software means citizen portals and internal tools that must meet accessibility rules such as WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508 and EN 301 549. An offshore web team can often do the build as a subcontractor, but usually cannot bid alone where tenders require registration, clearances, data residency or certifications.
Read articleA guide for UK charities and the people who build for them: what a charity CRM must record that a generic CRM does not, Gift Aid declarations and claims as HMRC describes them, the charitable purposes soft opt-in that commenced in February 2026, Direct Debit gifts, published pricing for charity CRMs, a declaration data model, and the narrow cases where custom software is the right answer.
Read articleA build guide for ISP and telecom customer self-service portals: the features subscribers expect (account, plan changes, usage, bill pay, fault tickets, outage status), what vendor and Stripe portals cover, a plan-change state machine in TypeScript, and how to separate staff and customer access with RBAC and row-level security.
Read articleA plain split of pharma software into web work an offshore team can safely build and GxP systems that need a validated vendor with a quality system, with the rules behind the line and how to scope the work without patient data.
Read articleAn engineering guide to HCP portals: how healthcare professionals register and get verified, how to gate promotional content by audience and market, what to log, and a TypeScript example of an NPI Registry check with caching.
Read articleA telemedicine platform is seven parts: video, scheduling, intake, visit notes, e-prescribing, payments and records access. Rent the video and prescribing, build the workflow, and design privacy in from the first spec.
Read articleWhat clinic management software covers (scheduling, patient records, billing, inventory, staff roles), published prices from Cliniko, Jane, SimplePractice and Tebra, when configuring open-source OpenEMR makes sense, and the three cases where a custom build pays: multi-branch rules, unusual workflows and integrations.
Read articleHow a doctor appointment booking system works underneath: generating slots from schedules, a PostgreSQL exclusion constraint on provider and tstzrange that makes double-booking impossible, email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders with their published prices, cancellations and no-shows, and time zones. Plus what to buy instead, and when.
Read articleA buyer-level guide to EHR integration for health startups: direct Epic and Oracle Health APIs, aggregators and unified APIs, HL7 v2 interfaces and FHIR, what each costs, what slows a first connection down, and how to choose.
Read articleMedical practice management software runs scheduling, billing, patient records, reporting and staff roles. Off-the-shelf tools start around $45 a month; this guide covers what each module involves, per-country notes for Australia, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa, and the narrow cases where a custom build pays off.
Read articlePatient intake software replaces the clipboard with conditional digital forms, recorded consent and e-signature, insurance card upload, pre-visit reminders and a log of who viewed each record. Tools start around $55 a month; this guide covers buy versus build and shows a validated conditional question schema in TypeScript.
Read articleAn engineering guide to mental health app development: the four feature sets, crisis signposting and escalation rules, why AI must not give clinical advice, clinical review of content, and the FTC and GDPR privacy points, with a TypeScript escalation sketch.
Read articleAn engineering guide to lab results portals: when a result may be released, the US information-blocking question, reference ranges and flags, PDF reports, provider and patient roles, audit logs, and notifications that never leak a result, with SQL and TypeScript for release gating.
Read articleCoaching center management software runs batches, admissions, instalment fees, attendance, test series and parent updates. Buy a tool for one centre; build when you run several branches, take fees through bKash, Nagad or UPI, or sell the software to other institutes.
Read articleOnline exam software needs a tagged question bank, per-student randomisation, a timer the server enforces, autosave and auditable grading. Browser lockdown and proctoring help less than vendors suggest, and exam day is a traffic spike you have to plan for.
Read articleSCORM lets packaged e-learning content run and report scores inside any compliant LMS, and SCORM 1.2 from 2001 is still the version every vendor supports. How an LMS runs a package (the API adapter and the cmi data model), how xAPI, the LRS and cmi5 differ, when you need SCORM and when you do not, and a buy, build or hire table.
Read articleA quiz and assessment engine is five parts: an item bank, pools and randomisation, an attempt runner, a scoring function and item analytics. Item types, partial credit and negative marking, attempts and feedback, difficulty and discrimination, a PostgreSQL schema, a TypeScript scoring function, and a buy, build or hire table.
Read articleA practical guide to school fee management: fee structures for tuition, transport and exams, instalments and due dates, sibling concessions, late fees, receipts, reminders and reconciliation; payment rails from bKash and SSLCommerz to Stripe; a PostgreSQL ledger in minor units; an instalment-split function; where Excel stops working; and when to buy, build or hire.
Read articleA practical guide for course creators, academies and EdTech founders: how cohort-based courses differ from self-paced ones, the features a cohort platform needs (schedules, live sessions, community, assignments, certificates), Maven, Circle, Teachable, Thinkific and Kajabi pricing from their own pages, what fees cost at real revenue, when combining tools beats building, and when a custom platform pays.
Read articleTeachable, Thinkific and Kajabi compared on their published pricing, transaction and processing fees, product and admin limits, branding, API access and B2B features; the limits that push course businesses to a custom platform; the middle path of extending a platform through its API; and how to migrate without losing students.
Read articleA white-label LMS gets your brand on a working platform for roughly $95 to $450 a month; a custom multi-tenant LMS costs tens of thousands up front but removes seat limits and vendor rules. Branding, domains, per-seat economics, data ownership, B2B reselling, a three-year cost table and a buy, build or hire table.
Read articleWhatsApp allows free-form replies for 24 hours after a learner writes; outside that window only approved templates go out, priced per message. Telegram bots message for free but cannot start a chat. How to run lessons, quizzes and tutoring on both, what it costs, opt-in rules, a TypeScript webhook, and when a PWA is the better channel.
Read articleHow to take course and tuition payments across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya and Indonesia: one provider interface with a local gateway per country, what flat fees do to small course prices, instalments, failed-payment recovery for mobile money, refunds, and a TypeScript provider abstraction.
Read articleLoan management software runs a loan after approval: the repayment schedule, daily interest accrual, fees, payment allocation, arrears and collections. How each part works, a TypeScript amortisation sample in integer minor units, vendors compared, and when a custom build makes sense.
Read articleA digital wallet is a ledger with a user interface. Closed-loop store credit is an ordinary backend build; an open-loop wallet that holds customer money usually needs a licensed e-money, payments or banking partner. Architecture, licensing questions per region, and how RAITHub would build the engineering.
Read articlePayment reconciliation matches your orders, the gateway settlement report and your bank statement, and queues every difference. How matching works, the differences to expect, a SQL matcher with an exceptions table, buy-or-build options, and how RAITHub would build it.
Read articleCash on delivery works at scale when the order is a state machine, not a paid flag. Order states, courier status sync, remittance reconciliation, failed deliveries and returns, advance-payment rules and partial COD, with a TypeScript state machine.
Read articleA multi-vendor marketplace is seven systems around one checkout: onboarding, moderation, commissions, payouts, disputes and returns, vendor dashboards and search. Here is how each works, what Sharetribe, CS-Cart and Dokan cost, and when to build.
Read articleA return is a small state machine: requested, approved, picked up, received, inspected, then refunded, exchanged or credited. When Loop, ReturnGO or AfterShip Returns fit, when a custom build pays off, and how to make refunds idempotent and restock correct.
Read articleA three-year cost model for Shopify and WooCommerce from their own pricing pages: plans and transaction fees against hosting, extensions and maintenance. Plus performance, apps and plugins, B2B, payments where Shopify Payments and WooPayments are not offered, and when neither fits.
Read articleA white-label SaaS platform is one multi-tenant codebase that each customer or reseller runs under their own brand, domain and email, while the database keeps their data apart. Theming, custom domains with TLS on Vercel or Cloudflare for SaaS, branded email, row-level security, reseller hierarchies and per-tenant feature flags, with code.
Read articleA wholesale portal needs ten features trade buyers now expect, from customer-specific price lists and credit terms to CSV reorder, case packs, approvals, statements and FEFO stock. What each one must do, where its rules belong, and when a hosted platform is enough.
Read articleHow a marketplace proves its products are genuine: supplier documents matched to batch and lot numbers, seller onboarding checks, a document review queue with an append-only audit trail, a public batch lookup page for buyers, and a refund guarantee that is backed by a process, not a banner.
Read articleAbout a third of SaaS churn in Recurly's July 2026 benchmark is involuntary: failed payments, not unhappy customers. Here are the engineering levers that cut both kinds of churn, from retries and card updates to onboarding, speed, health scores and honest cancellation flows.
Read articleWhat short-term rental and Airbnb management software has to do, why channel connections go through approved partners, where iCal sync breaks, how Guesty, Hostaway and Lodgify price, and which parts are worth building yourself.
Read articleEnterprise-ready SaaS means SSO, SCIM provisioning, granular roles, an exportable audit log, data export and deletion, a written uptime SLA, a status page and honest security-questionnaire answers. What each one involves, a now, 3-month and 6-month roadmap, SAML versus OIDC, and what to buy instead of build.
Read articleLease management software needs nine core features, from rent escalations and renewal notices to deposits, e-signature and expiry alerts. What residential and commercial leases need differently, where ASC 842 and IFRS 16 fit, and when to buy instead of build.
Read articleHow a property portal should moderate listings: automated checks for duplicates, bait prices, reused photos, missing fields and permit numbers, then a review queue with SLAs and an appeal flow, modelled as an 11-state lifecycle with sample TypeScript.
Read articleFrom 1 May 2026, private tenancies in England moved to assured periodic tenancies, section 21 ended, and rent increases, possession notices and pet requests got new rules. Here is each change mapped to the lettings software feature it needs, with the dates still to come.
Read articleThe three rules that separate B2B ecommerce from a consumer store: who may see a trade price, how much credit each buyer may use, and whose data each login can reach. How to enforce them in the database, with Sundor Skin, a live wholesale platform, as the worked example.
Read articleAn honest decision guide: Shopify is right for most single-brand stores, and here are its 2026 plan prices and fees. Custom pays off when the rules are the business, shown by the specific reasons two live platforms, a verified marketplace and a B2B wholesale portal, were built custom.
Read articleProperty management software is rent collection, a ledger, maintenance routing and role-scoped portals working as one record. How to build each part, with the numbers from PropDesk: Stripe rent collection, 4 user roles, 5 daily jobs and 1,024 automated tests.
Read articleA real estate marketplace is agency isolation, listing moderation, lead routing and search on shared infrastructure. How to build each one, where listing data comes from, and what BlockEstate, a multi-tenant listing platform with a 6-week MVP, shows.
Read articleA developer explainer of MLS and IDX integration: how access and data licensing work, the RESO Web API and Data Dictionary, IDX versus VOW, how to replicate and reconcile listing data, and the display rules in the NAR IDX policy.
Read articleA multi-tenant B2B SaaS is built right when one customer can never see another customer's data, and tests prove it. Here is how tenancy, auth, RBAC, billing and audit logs should be built, and what enterprise buyers ask for, with examples from platforms RAITHub built.
Read articleHow to move money correctly inside a product: idempotency, integer money, server-side pricing, webhooks, reconciliation and audit trails, where compliance starts, and when to hire a regulated-fintech specialist instead. Drawn from payment code RAITHub has shipped.
Read articleA plain guide to building health software: the general HIPAA, GDPR and FHIR context, what a patient portal needs, how to run a health project with a compliance partner, and an honest account of what RAITHub has and has not built.
Read articleWhat a learning product has to get right, from assessment and AI tutoring cost to LTI, accessibility, student privacy and exam-time load, with lessons from PadhAI, the AI tutoring platform RAITHub built.
Read articleLessons from building two live commerce platforms: when Shopify beats a custom build, the seven hard problems in marketplace and B2B ecommerce, the order to build in, realistic timelines and what drives the cost.
Read articleLessons from building PropDesk and BlockEstate: when to buy instead of build, what makes rent, leases and multi-role portals hard, what MLS and IDX access really depends on, realistic timelines and what drives cost.
Read articleA practical, honest playbook for ecommerce checkout optimization: what drives abandonment, the fixes that move revenue, and how to measure them properly.
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