What custom web application development companies build
The usual commissions are customer and partner portals, internal operations and workflow systems, dashboards over data that lives in several places, booking, scheduling and dispatch tools, marketplaces and multi-sided platforms, quoting and configuration engines, and the first production version of a SaaS product. Each has user roles and permissions, forms and workflows, reporting, notifications, and integrations with payment, accounting, CRM, ERP or mapping services.
The phases are discovery and requirements, UX wireframes and UI design, architecture and stack selection, development in sprints across front end and back end, integration work, QA and user acceptance testing, deployment to cloud hosting, and a support or maintenance agreement. Stacks vary: React, Angular or Vue on the front end; Node, Django, Laravel, .NET or Rails behind it; PostgreSQL or MySQL for data; AWS, Azure or Google Cloud for hosting.
Firms sell fixed-scope builds against a written specification, dedicated teams billed monthly for products with long roadmaps, time-and-materials for evolving requirements, MVP packages for startups, and maintenance contracts with response targets.