Blog
What we're building, and what it taught us.
Notes from Pattform on building, hosting and running digital products, the patterns we reuse, and what we learned building them.
Topics
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Agency or growth partner: what happens after your app launches?
An agency builds your app and hands it over. A growth partner stays to help it find customers. How the two differ, and which one your business needs.
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How to validate a SaaS idea before you build it
How to test whether your SaaS idea is worth building before you spend a dollar on code, using cheap experiments that tell you the truth early.
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Introducing PartPlanner
PartPlanner is our inventory and build-planning app for people who build and flip PCs. Why we built it, what it taught us, and who is using it now.
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How much does it cost to build an app in 2026?
What it costs to build an app in New Zealand in 2026, why the honest answer is 'it depends on your must-haves', and the choices that move the price most.
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How we build services that scale to zero
Scaling to zero means a service costs nothing while nobody is using it. Here is how we do that without leaving clients waiting on a slow first request.
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Why we build small business websites as static sites
Static sites ship plain HTML from a CDN instead of assembling pages per request. Here's why that suits a small business site, and where it doesn't.