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Build fast, secure software for the systems where a browser gets in the way — custom hardware, closed networks, and workloads that need every cycle of the machine.
Web is the right default for most products. Desktop earns its place when the browser becomes the constraint.
Desktop reaches fewer users than the web — but in these three situations, nothing else competes.
Hardware & custom systems
Browsers can't talk to serial ports, custom drivers, or lab and factory equipment. Desktop can, directly.
On-device security
When data can never leave the device, removing the browser removes the largest attack surface it has.
Performance-intensive workloads
Native code carries no sandbox tax. Animation, rendering, and networking all run closer to the metal.
Specialized technologies for high-performance, secure, hardware-aware applications.
Use full desktop resources for demanding applications.
Get direct access to system resources.
Keep sensitive data safely on-device.
Build across platforms with Qt.
Health / Fitness
The Altitude Center project demonstrates our ability to create cutting-edge solutions for the health and fitness industry. We developed a comprehensive system for a specialized gym in London, enabling high-altitude training simulations for elite athletes and fitness enthusiasts. Our work combined desktop applications, embedded systems, IoT integration, and web development, bringing the client's vision to life as a fully functional, data-driven training environment.
It depends on where your users are and what the product needs to touch. If you need hardware access, offline security, or raw performance, desktop is usually the answer — otherwise, start on the web.
Electron-style tools bundle a full browser inside your app, which costs memory, CPU, and much of desktop's real advantage. Qt compiles to native code, so you keep the performance you came for.
Yes. Qt is built for exactly this — one codebase that compiles natively for every major desktop platform, even if you only launch on one to start.
We set up signed installers and an auto-update pipeline as part of the build, so users get new versions without you managing distribution by hand.
We handle OS updates, driver changes, and dependency upgrades on a regular cadence, so the app keeps working as the platforms underneath it change.
Picked for founders about to test an idea for the first time
Development
A proof of concept (PoC) tests whether your idea can be built, and a prototype tests whether people want it, while a minimum viable product (MVP) is the first working version that shows whether customers will pay, so the MVP vs PoC choice comes down to your riskiest question. Build the one that tests it first, and skip the rest.Most founders who ask me for an MVP are about to pay for the wrong first build, which is why the first thing I tell them is the line I'd want you to remember:Test the riskiest assumption first. A proof of concept tests the technology, a prototype tests the demand, and an MVP tests whether people will pay.About six in ten of the MVP requests that reach Milo should start with something smaller, while the other four can go straight to an MVP because the technology is proven and the founder has already talked to real users.
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Development
If you have a half-built MVP or a backlog that grows faster than your team can ship, someone has probably offered to sell you a discovery phase before any more code gets written.Product strategy services, often sold as a discovery phase, are paid work in which an outside team tests your riskiest assumptions with users and engineers before development starts. What you should get back is a roadmap phrased as outcomes and a scoped first release that a developer can start building from.I run Milo Solutions, a software house, so my team has to build whatever a roadmap says. That gives me a blunt view of strategy work:The most expensive thing a founder can build is the wrong thing, finished. You can't know it's wrong until you test it, and testing is always cheaper before the build than after.Plenty of founders don't need to pay for this at all. If you do, you can judge a provider before signing by asking what you'll be held responsible for when the engagement ends.
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Development
The cost to develop a fintech app is the cost of a normal app plus regulated line items that most quotes leave out or bury: the regulatory route, a reconciling ledger, identity checks, card security scope, audits, and vendor fees. On our last fintech build, about half the engineering effort went into that work instead of features users can see.Many of those lines keep billing you after launch through audits and per-user vendor fees. Published ranges disagree because one agency prices only the app while another quietly includes some of that work. You'll get a truer number by pricing each line yourself.When a founder tells me they'll sort compliance out after launch, this is what I tell them:Without compliance, you don't have a product. It sits at the core of every architectural decision: what we build and how we build it. A single missed requirement can mean a months-long rebuild, or a shutdown.
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