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Ignited Nepal builds full-stack web applications for UK businesses where a CMS or Webflow site is not the right tool. React and Next.js front-ends, Node.js or Python back-ends, PostgreSQL or MongoDB database design, REST or GraphQL API development, authentication, and cloud infrastructure on AWS UK/EU regions for data residency. For FinTech, LegalTech, and PropTech SaaS builds, client portals, booking systems, and multi-tenant platforms where the architecture has to be right from the start.
You have a product concept that requires a multi-tenant architecture, role-based access control, subscription and billing integration, and a data model that a CMS cannot represent. You need a development partner who has built this type of product before, who understands the compliance considerations for UK financial, legal, or property data, and who will make architecture decisions that do not become expensive problems at scale.
Your clients need to log in, access documents, track project status, submit requests, and communicate with your team through a controlled environment. You have looked at off-the-shelf portal products and they do not fit your workflow, your branding, or the specific data your clients need to see. A custom-built client portal built around your process is a different product from a generic portal with your logo applied to it.
Your team manages a critical operational process, pricing, scheduling, case management, compliance tracking, through a combination of spreadsheets, email, and manual data entry. The process works until it does not, and when it fails the cost is visible. You need an internal application that puts the process into a proper data model, with a user interface designed for the people who use it and the audit trail that operations and compliance require.
You launched on a CMS with plugins or a no-code platform, and the platform is now a constraint. Performance is suffering, the features you need are not supported, and every customisation requires a workaround that creates the next problem. You need a ground-up build on a stack you own and can extend.
CMS platforms and no-code tools are excellent at the use cases they were designed for. When your requirements go beyond those use cases, the platform becomes the constraint. Every new feature is a workaround, every workaround creates a dependency, and the system as a whole becomes harder to maintain and slower to extend. At some point the cost of working within the platform exceeds the cost of building correctly.
A platform designed for blog posts and pages stores your data in a structure that does not match your process. You end up mapping your actual entities, clients, bookings, cases, properties, tenants, licences, into a content model that was not designed for them. The misfit is visible in every part of the system: slow queries, brittle integrations, data that has to be manually transformed to be useful, and reporting that requires exporting to a spreadsheet.
Authentication and data handling in a custom application require deliberate decisions: where personal data is stored, how it is encrypted at rest and in transit, what the data retention policy is, how users can exercise their rights, and what the audit log looks like. Applications that were built quickly, without those decisions being made explicitly, accumulate compliance debt that is expensive to address after the fact.
An application built quickly on a monolithic back-end with no API layer, a flat database schema, and no environment separation is a liability when the product grows. Adding a mobile client, integrating a third-party system, or onboarding a second tenant requires rebuilding what should have been foundational decisions. The cost of re-architecting is always higher than the cost of getting the architecture right at the start.
We begin with a technical specification that documents your data model, entity relationships, user roles and permissions, API surface, third-party integrations, and infrastructure plan. The specification is reviewed and approved before development begins. It becomes the reference document for the entire project and the handover documentation at the end.
We build the front-end in React with Next.js, using TypeScript throughout. The front-end is built to the technical specification, designed for the actual users of the application, optimised for the Core Web Vitals that affect perceived performance in complex applications, and tested across browsers and devices. Component architecture is documented so your team can extend it after handover.
We build the back-end in Node.js with Express or NestJS, or in Python with FastAPI or Django, depending on your requirements and integration ecosystem. The back-end exposes a clean REST or GraphQL API, implements the business logic defined in the specification, handles file storage, queuing, and background processing where required, and is structured for the environments you will need.
We design the database schema from your data model: PostgreSQL for relational data, MongoDB for document-oriented data, or a combination where the use case calls for it. Schema design decisions, indexing strategy, and query optimisation are made with your expected data volumes and query patterns in mind, not as defaults that will need revisiting at scale.
We build a documented, versioned API that exposes your application's capabilities to the front-end, to third-party integrations, and to any future clients, mobile applications, or partner systems. API documentation is generated from the code and kept current throughout development.
We implement authentication and authorisation appropriate to your application: email and password with secure session handling, OAuth 2.0 integration for Google or Microsoft SSO, multi-factor authentication where required, and role-based access control that enforces your permission model at every layer of the stack. For applications handling personal data, authentication is implemented with UK GDPR requirements in mind: secure storage, audit logging, and user rights management built in.
We provision and configure your infrastructure on AWS, using UK or EU regions for applications subject to UK GDPR data residency requirements. Infrastructure is provisioned as code, with separate staging and production environments, automated deployments, monitoring, alerting, and backup configuration. We document the infrastructure so your team can manage it after handover.
We set up staging and production environments with a CI/CD pipeline from the project's start. Every change is reviewed against staging before reaching production. Deployment is automated and documented. Environment configuration, secrets management, and environment-specific settings are handled correctly from the first deployment.
We write unit tests for business logic, integration tests for API endpoints, and end-to-end tests for critical user flows. Test coverage is reported throughout the project. Technical documentation covers the architecture, the API, the database schema, the infrastructure, and the deployment process. Handover includes a walkthrough session with your team.
We work with your team to understand the process the application will serve, the users it will support, the data it will handle, and the integrations it will require. We identify the compliance requirements, data residency considerations, and infrastructure constraints that will shape the architecture. We produce a project scope document for your approval before the specification work begins.
We produce the full technical specification: data model, entity relationships, API design, authentication and authorisation model, third-party integration plan, infrastructure architecture, and environment strategy. The specification is reviewed and approved by your team before development begins. Changes to scope after this point are managed as formal change requests.
We build front-end and back-end in parallel sprints, with working software demonstrated at the end of each sprint. The staging environment is live from the first sprint. You can test real functionality against real data throughout development, not just at handover.
We complete all third-party integrations, run the full test suite, conduct a security review covering authentication, authorisation, injection vulnerabilities, and data exposure, and verify UK GDPR compliance requirements for the data the application handles. We fix all issues identified before moving to production.
We run a full validation cycle on staging with your team before production launch. Production infrastructure is provisioned, the CI/CD pipeline is confirmed, monitoring and alerting are live, and the deployment is made with a rollback plan in place. We remain available for four weeks after launch for issues that arise in production use.
We deliver the full technical documentation package, conduct a walkthrough session with your development team, and hand over all credentials, infrastructure access, and codebase ownership. The project is complete when your team can operate and extend the application independently.
A custom-built application is built to your specific data model, your specific user roles, your specific business logic, and your specific compliance requirements. A configured SaaS product makes those decisions for you, and when your requirements do not match the product's assumptions you work around the gaps. For simple use cases, a SaaS product is usually the right answer. For use cases where the data model is specific, the business logic is non-standard, the compliance requirements are particular, or the integration surface is complex, a custom build produces a system that serves the process rather than a process adapted to serve the system.
For a custom application handling personal data, UK GDPR compliance means making deliberate decisions about data storage location (AWS UK or EU region for data residency), encryption at rest and in transit, access control and audit logging, data retention and deletion policies, and user rights management including the right to access, the right to rectification, and the right to erasure. These are architecture and engineering decisions that are significantly more expensive to implement after the application is built than when they are built in from the start. We address them as part of the technical specification.
We price on a fixed-fee basis against a technical specification. The specification defines the scope: data model, features, API surface, integrations, infrastructure, and testing requirements. Fixed-fee pricing against a specification means you know the cost before development begins and scope changes are managed explicitly. We do not price against rough requirements and adjust the invoice at the end.
For UK applications, we default to eu-west-2 (London) or eu-west-1 (Ireland) for primary data residency. Under UK GDPR, personal data processed by a UK-based application must remain within the UK or an adequate jurisdiction. AWS EU regions satisfy this requirement. For applications with specific ICO obligations, we document the data residency configuration as part of the technical specification.
Timeline depends on the scope defined in the technical specification. A focused internal tool or client portal with a clean data model and no complex third-party integrations typically runs twelve to sixteen weeks from approved specification to production launch. A multi-tenant SaaS product with billing integration, complex role-based access control, and multiple user-facing surfaces typically runs twenty to thirty weeks. We give you a fixed timeline at the end of the specification step, after the scope is defined.
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Off-the-shelf software and CMS platforms are the right tool for the problems they were designed to solve. When your requirements go beyond those problems, the right tool is an application built around your actual data, your actual process, and your actual compliance obligations. We write the specification, build the application, and hand over a codebase your team owns. Start by sending us your brief.
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