The Shunya Blog

The questions that actually predict how a project goes, how to read a proposal, and which trust signals are weaker than they look.

July 8, 2026Read

Real 2026 price ranges for custom web applications, the five things that actually drive the number, and the costs that never appear in the build quote.

June 29, 2026Read

A two-page brief gets you comparable quotes. The nine things it needs, what to leave out, and a template you can copy straight into a document.

June 17, 2026Read

The three options are not priced on the same thing. How to match the arrangement to the shape of your work, including when to hire none of them.

June 8, 2026Read

The exact process Shunya uses to take an idea to a production MVP in 4 to 8 weeks - scoping, the stack, bi-weekly deploys, and what we deliberately leave out.

June 2, 2026Read

A practical guide to production RAG: chunking, retrieval quality, grounding and evaluation - what separates a demo from a system you can trust.

May 28, 2026Read

Buying Guide15 min

Budget 15-20% of build cost per year, and here is exactly what that buys - patching, runtime upgrades, monitoring, and the cost of skipping them.

May 25, 2026Read

Insights13 min

Handoffs between frontend, backend, infra and design are where projects rot. Why one team owning the whole stack ships faster and breaks less.

May 20, 2026Read

Guides15 min

Paying for software does not automatically mean you own it. The clause that transfers copyright, and the eight others worth checking before you sign.

May 13, 2026Read

Case Studies13 min

How we built CodrzAI in four months - AI roadmaps, six specialised agents, a scaffolding engine, an open-source bounty marketplace, and what we learned.

May 10, 2026Read

Insights14 min

The eight real causes, ranked, plus a pre-flight checklist. Seven of them are decided before any code is written and none are technical.

May 4, 2026Read

Comparisons13 min

Why we reach for Next.js, tRPC and Prisma by default - end-to-end type safety, one language across the stack, and a boring path to production.

April 30, 2026Read

Insights14 min

Not a request to tidy up. What the metaphor actually means, what it costs you, and which debt is genuinely not worth paying down.

April 21, 2026Read

A dozen App Router apps later: the mental model that stuck, where Server Components bit us, the four overlapping caches, and the rules we ship by.

April 14, 2026Read

An MVP answers a question. Start with the belief you are testing, ship one flow end to end, and cut the eight things that never needed to be there.

April 9, 2026Read

An eight-phase sequence for replacing an old system without a bad Monday, including why the data is always worse than anyone believes.

March 30, 2026Read

Most "we need to scale the database" conversations are really "we never tuned the database". How to scale Postgres in the right order.

March 22, 2026Read

We build on Next.js and for many business sites WordPress is the right answer. The honest comparison, with three-year costs both ways.

March 19, 2026Read

Looking dated and not working properly are different projects with a four-fold cost difference. A two-day audit that tells you which one you need.

March 9, 2026Read

Insights13 min

Cutting scope makes you faster at no long-term cost. Cutting corners makes you slower every day after. Why they are not the same thing.

February 26, 2026Read

Both models work and both fail. Which is right depends on how well-defined the work is, and the hybrid that suits most projects better than either.

February 25, 2026Read

A demo is a rehearsed performance. The questions that break the script, what the answers mean, and the two requests to send in advance.

February 16, 2026Read

The warning signs are structural, not about the price. Ten things to check in twenty minutes, and what a good quote actually looks like.

February 4, 2026Read

The week-by-week shape of a six-week MVP build - what happens in each one, what we need from you, and what deliberately waits until after launch.

January 30, 2026Read

Eight signals that your software is now costing more than it saves, how to put a number on it, and what to do in the next thirty days.

January 23, 2026Read

What changes, what it costs, when it is genuinely right, and the editor-experience mistake that causes most headless regret.

January 13, 2026Read

What the law asks for, what WCAG AA means in practice, the five fixes worth doing first, and why overlay widgets do not work.

January 2, 2026Read

What the three metrics actually measure, whether your red report is a real problem, and which fixes are cheap. Written for the person signing.

December 23, 2025Read

Hallucination is mostly an architecture problem, not a model problem. How we build agents businesses rely on - grounding, tools and evaluation.

December 12, 2025Read

Most SEO advice assumes a content site. Here is what matters when your product is an application and most of it sits behind a login.

December 11, 2025Read

The controls that block the attacks that actually happen, what each costs, and the questions to ask your team this week.

December 2, 2025Read

Why PostgreSQL is the right default, when each alternative earns its place, and why most scaling problems are missing indexes.

November 20, 2025Read

Buying Guide13 min

Real ranges by product shape, the floor every multi-tenant product pays before its first feature, and the running costs people forget.

November 11, 2025Read

A deployment pipeline has one job: make shipping so boring that nobody fears it. The CI/CD setup we put on every project, and why each piece earns it.

November 8, 2025Read

Comparisons13 min

What each approach costs your visitors, why the binary is outdated, and the five questions that settle it for your project.

October 30, 2025Read

What the main regimes actually require of your codebase, which parts are engineering rather than paperwork, and why retrofitting costs 3-4x.

October 21, 2025Read

Case Studies13 min

How SyncHQ came together - an agency with no single screen, the aggregation architecture, and why the data model was the genuinely hard part.

October 10, 2025Read