What Custom Software Costs a Small Business — Build and After
Most cost guides price the build and stop. Here's the build, the hosting, the maintenance, and the five-year number nobody puts on a quote.
Read the article →Straight answers about owning software you didn't build.
What custom software actually costs over five years, who maintains it after launch, who owns the code, and what happens if the people who built it disappear. Written by the founders, with the arithmetic shown.
In the works
- Who Maintains Custom Software After It's Built? A Real List
- Custom Software on a Monthly Price: What Build-and-Run Means
- Who Owns the Code When You Pay Someone to Build Software?
- If Your Software Vendor Disappears, What Happens to You?
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