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Lessons from building software for Indonesian businesses, written down so the next client, or the next team, can skip a few mistakes.

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12 October 20262 min read

Check Internet Positif before you buy a .id domain.

We bought a new .id domain for our point of sale. It was already on Indonesia's blocklist. Here's the two-minute check that would have saved us.

DomainsLaunch

12 October 20262 min read

Loyalty points mean more when customers can see them.

A café's regulars were collecting points only the staff could see. We turned them into a public leaderboard and a game that grows with every coffee.

LoyaltyF&B

2 September 20262 min read

Taking over an app? First find out why fixes don't stick.

Every fix seemed to open a new problem somewhere else. Here's what we check in the first two weeks after taking over an app someone else built.

MobileMaintenance

26 August 20262 min read

Field apps should never wait for a signal.

On an oil-palm estate or in a basement car park, the signal goes first. Here's how we build apps that keep working without it.

MobileField ops

19 August 20262 min read

Three signs you've outgrown off-the-shelf software.

An optical chain spent a month typing its lens catalogue into an accounting package and got less than a tenth in. Here's how to tell you've outgrown yours.

POSBusiness

12 August 20263 min read

Print receipts from a web app to a Bluetooth printer.

Your web app can't reach the shop's Bluetooth receipt printer on its own. A free Android app on the same tablet can. Here's the setup and the code.

POSHow-to

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