Every website or app is a pile of layers, from the screen your customer taps down to the servers and data underneath. Here is what we use at each layer, why, and how to tell what your own project needs.
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Pick what you are building and what matters most. The suggested stack drops into the tray, with the reason for each piece.
1What are you building?
2What matters most?
Speed comes from tools that already solve the common parts, so our time goes into what is special about your business.
Checkout, hosting and security come ready, so the work goes into your products and brand.
Razorpay, Cashfree or PayU connect to checkout for UPI, cards, netbanking and wallets.
One panel books pickups with several couriers and sends tracking links to buyers.
Your team edits banners, policies and blog posts inside the same admin.
A starting point. We confirm the stack, with running costs, in your written quote.
Pick a shelf, then a tile. Each sheet says what the tool is, when we choose it, when we don't and which of our services use it.
What runs in your customer's browser: pages, buttons, forms and layout.
A popular library for building screens out of small reusable parts, such as a product card or a booking form.
Dashboards, portals and apps with many interactive screens, especially when an app will share code with the website.
A five-page brochure site, where a CMS gets you live sooner and your team can edit it.
A framework on top of React that prepares pages on the server, so they open fast and search engines can read them.
Public sites and stores that must rank on Google, and products where marketing pages and the app live together.
Internal tools behind a login, where search visibility does not matter and plain React is simpler.
Vue is another library for building screens, and Nuxt does for Vue what Next.js does for React.
When your existing product or in-house team already works in Vue, so we extend it instead of starting over.
New projects with no Vue history, where React has the larger pool of developers you can hire later.
JavaScript with labels on every piece of data, so many mistakes are caught while coding instead of by your customers.
Almost every app or portal we build, front end and back end, because it makes later changes safer.
A tiny script or a theme tweak, where the setup is more work than the safety it adds.
A styling toolkit that keeps spacing, colours and type consistent with your design system.
Custom designs built from a design system, where every button and gap must match the agreed look.
Shopify or WordPress themes that already ship their own styling, where adding it would mean two systems.
The rules behind the screen: logins, prices, approvals and payments.
Node.js runs JavaScript on the server. NestJS adds a clear structure for APIs, roles and background jobs.
APIs that serve a website, an app and an admin together, and anything with live updates such as order tracking.
Heavy number-crunching or AI pipelines, where Python has better libraries.
Python is the main language of data and AI work. Django gives a complete web framework and FastAPI a lean, fast API.
AI features, document processing, reports from large data sets, and admin-heavy back offices built on Django.
A simple store or content site, where a ready platform does the job with far less code to maintain.
Laravel is a well-organised PHP framework with login, roles, queues and emails built in.
Portals and back offices on a sensible budget, and businesses that want PHP hosting and developers that are easy to find locally.
Real-time features with thousands of live connections, where Node.js or Go fits better.
A compiled language from Google that handles a lot of traffic on modest servers.
The busiest single part of a system, such as a tracking feed, a pricing engine or a file processor.
The first version of most products, where development speed in Node.js or Laravel matters more.
How we build apps for Android and iPhone.
A toolkit from Google that builds the Android and iPhone apps from one codebase, with the same look on both.
Most business apps: bookings, ordering, loyalty, field staff and dealer apps.
Apps that lean on the newest phone features on launch day, such as advanced camera or watch features.
Builds Android and iPhone apps with React, the same library many websites use.
When your website or team already uses React, so logic and people can be shared between web and app.
Teams with no React background, where Flutter is usually quicker to get right.
The official languages for iPhone (Swift) and Android (Kotlin), written separately for each platform.
Apps that depend on deep phone features: Bluetooth devices, heavy camera work, widgets or offline sync at scale.
Most first versions, because two separate apps roughly double the build and upkeep.
Where your records live, and the AI models that read and write with them.
An open-source database known for keeping related records consistent, from invoices to bookings.
Our default for apps and portals, and for AI search through the pgvector extension.
When a platform such as Shopify already stores the data for you.
The open-source database behind WordPress, WooCommerce and many PHP applications.
WordPress and WooCommerce sites, Laravel projects on shared hosting, and existing systems already on MySQL.
New apps with complex reporting or AI search, where PostgreSQL gives more room.
A database that stores flexible documents instead of fixed tables.
Data whose shape changes a lot, such as event logs, form builders or catalogues with very different attributes.
Money, stock and anything that must add up exactly, where a table-based database is safer.
Very fast in-memory storage used for caching, queues and short-lived data like OTPs.
Busy apps where the same data is read again and again, and background jobs like sending invoices.
Small sites with light traffic, where it adds a moving part without a visible gain.
Paid access to large language models that read, summarise, sort and draft text on request.
Answering questions from your documents, drafting replies, reading invoices and summarising long records.
Decisions that must be exactly right every time, like tax maths, which normal code does better.
A way to find the right passages in your documents and hand them to the AI model, so answers come from your material.
Assistants that must quote your price list, policies or manuals, with links back to the source.
When you have only a page or two of information, which fits straight into the prompt.
Where everything runs, and how changes reach it safely.
Amazon's cloud: rented servers, databases and storage, with regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Apps and portals that need servers, managed databases and backups, kept in India when your data should stay here.
Simple sites, where a managed host or Vercel is cheaper and needs less looking after.
Google's cloud, which includes Firebase for app sign-in and push notifications, with regions in Mumbai and Delhi.
Mobile apps using Firebase, and AI or data work that fits Google's tools.
When your company already runs everything on AWS, since two clouds mean two bills to watch.
Hosting made for Next.js, with a preview link for every change before it goes live.
Marketing sites and the public front of products built in Next.js.
Long-running back-end jobs and databases, which we keep on AWS or Google Cloud.
A network that sits in front of your site to cache pages, block attacks and manage your domain's DNS.
Nearly every site we look after, for speed, free SSL and protection from bot traffic.
Rarely skipped; Shopify stores already get similar protection from Shopify itself.
Packs an application with everything it needs, so it runs the same on a laptop, a test server and the live server.
Custom apps with several parts, and any project where you want to be able to switch hosting providers.
WordPress on managed hosting or Shopify, where the platform handles this.
Automatic checks and releases that run every time code changes in your GitHub repository.
Every custom codebase we hand over, so tests run before anything reaches your customers.
Theme-only Shopify work, where there is little code to test.
Ready platforms for selling online and editing content.
A hosted store platform: products, checkout, orders and hosting in one monthly plan.
Brands that want to sell soon, with little server work, and with apps for reviews, COD checks and shipping.
Complex B2B pricing per dealer, or catalogues where the plan and app fees outweigh the convenience.
A free, open-source store plugin for WordPress that you host yourself.
Stores that also need a content-heavy site, custom rules, or no monthly platform fee.
Owners who do not want to think about hosting, updates and security at all.
The most widely used open-source system for websites, with an editor most teams already know.
Company sites, blogs and lead-generation sites your marketing team updates every week.
Apps with logins, dashboards and complex data, which belong in a proper framework.
An editing panel that stores content separately from the design, so one text can feed a site, an app and more.
Next.js sites that need fast pages plus easy editing, and content shared across several channels.
Small teams that want plugins and themes ready to install, where WordPress is simpler.
Indian payment gateways for UPI, cards, netbanking, wallets and EMI, with settlements to your bank account.
Any site or app that takes money in India; we compare their fees and payout timing for your case.
Cross-border subscriptions billed in dollars, which may need a different provider.
A shipping aggregator that books pickups with several courier companies from one panel.
Stores shipping a few to a few hundred orders a day to many pincodes, including COD.
Brands with their own courier contracts or warehouse software, where we connect those instead.
Give points to what matters to you. The rope leans towards the option that fits, and the verdict explains why. The scores are our working judgement from past projects.
Either works. We would decide on your catalogue size and how much content you publish.
WooCommerce has no platform plan; Shopify adds a monthly fee and paid apps.
Shopify's checkout and hosting are ready on the first day.
WooCommerce code is open, so any rule can be changed.
Shopify handles updates and security; WooCommerce needs regular plugin updates.
A candidate has to pass all four. Pick one and watch where it drops out, or whether it makes it to your project.
Code sits in a repository under your account, and hosting, domain and database are in your name. If you ever leave us, nothing is held back.
Could you hand this to another team tomorrow?We pick tools that have been in wide use for years and have long-term support. New tools earn a place once they have shown they last.
Will this still be maintained in five years?You should be able to find developers for your stack in any Indian city, so your next hire or next agency can pick it up.
Can you find people who know this?We size hosting and paid services to your real traffic and avoid stacking monthly subscriptions you will not use.
Is the monthly bill sized to today's use?Search, or filter by topic. If your setup is unusual, ask us on the free call.
Yes. We start by reading your current code and hosting setup, then tell you plainly what is worth keeping. Most of the time we extend what you have instead of rebuilding it.
No. We explain each choice in business terms: what it costs to run, how fast it is to build and who can maintain it. You approve the stack in the written quote before work starts.
No. The code lives in a GitHub or GitLab repository under your account, and hosting, domain and payment gateway accounts are in your name. We use common, open tools so another team can take over.
New tools often change quickly, break older code and have few developers who know them. We use a newer tool only when it solves a real problem for you and has a track record behind it.
Yes. AWS has regions in Mumbai and Hyderabad, and Google Cloud has regions in Mumbai and Delhi. For apps that hold customer data we usually host there; check with your adviser if a specific law applies to your sector.
Yes. Common moves are WordPress to a headless setup, WooCommerce to Shopify or the reverse, and old PHP apps to Laravel. We move products, customers, orders and old URLs, and redirect the old addresses so search rankings carry over.
It depends on what you build. For a simple site, WordPress or a static Next.js site on low-cost hosting is cheapest to run. For apps, the cheapest stack is the one your next developer can maintain without a rewrite.
Most of the frameworks and databases here are free and open source. Platforms such as Shopify, cloud hosting, AI model usage and payment gateways charge fees, and we list each one in the quote.
You choose. We offer monthly care plans for updates, backups and fixes, billed monthly and cancellable anytime. Or we hand over the code, documentation and access to your own team.
We watch end-of-life dates for the versions in your stack and plan upgrades before support ends. On a care plan this is part of the routine; otherwise we tell you in advance and quote the work.
Tell us what you are building and we will suggest a stack, with the reasons and the running costs, in writing.