I work with businesses of every size, from the shop round the corner to a group of companies. If you are not sure which service you need, write to me: the first answer is free.
Desktop apps
Not everything belongs in a browser. When a program has to run on a computer even without internet, talk to an instrument plugged in over USB, read folders full of files or grind through data for hours, an installed application is still the right answer. I have delivered five of them, and each one replaced a job that used to be done by hand.
Desktop applications nearly always start from the same sentence: «every week I spend two hours doing this». The craft is in working out exactly what those two hours are, and then removing the hours without removing the control.
Together, on the computer where it happens. Which files, which steps, where the mistakes come from. Without this you build a program that solves an imagined problem.
Not everything is worth automating: some decisions are right to leave to a person. The program should take away the drudgery, not the responsibility.
Few screens, buttons where you would go looking for them. People who use these programs do not want to learn a program: they want to finish sooner.
A real executable to try on the actual computer, not a presentation. That is almost always where the case nobody mentioned comes to light.
With your files and your volumes. A program that works on ten rows and dies on ten thousand is not finished.
Installer, instructions, and the commented source code. If somebody else works on it one day, they find things where they should be.
Fixes and new features as the work changes. These programs live for years, and nobody uses something for years if it cannot be repaired.
The tools. Python with Qt and PySide for the interfaces, multi-threaded processing where speed matters, local databases, and dialogue with hardware: thermal printers, readers, instruments on a serial port, MQTT for networked devices.
If instead the program has to be used by several people or from outside the office, a web app is almost always the better buy: it opens in a browser and does not have to be installed on every computer. Have a look at web app and business system development. At the first meeting I tell you which of the two suits your case, including when the answer bills me less.
Where I work. I am based in Abruzzo, in central Italy, and I work remotely across Italy and abroad. For desktop applications a meeting in person is more useful than usual: it helps to see the computer and the instruments the program will have to run with, so I travel for it when the distance makes sense.
Each case study sets out the problem it started from, how it was solved and what was learned. These are programs in use, not exercises.
It depends how much it has to do: a program that automates one repetitive job and a complete management system are not the same price. The first meeting and the quote are free, and if a web app would serve you better than an installed program, I say so.
A first installable version you can try in three or four weeks, because that is the moment the case nobody mentioned comes out. From there it gets adjusted against the real data.
Yes, and it is one of the reasons an installed program is sometimes chosen over a website: it runs on the computer, with its own data, even if the line drops. Where it is needed it can then sync once the connection is back.
Yes: I hand over commented source code and the documentation. That is not a token promise, it is the reason these programs last for years: whoever works on it afterwards finds things where they should be.
Yes, and it is often the very reason an installed program is needed: thermal printers, readers, instruments on a serial port, networked devices over MQTT. The Audio Server drives six audio channels in exactly that way.
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