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How Much Does a Website Cost in Indonesia? A 2026 Price Guide

Indicative Rupiah prices for landing pages, company profiles, online shops, and custom web applications, what really moves the number, theme versus custom design, yearly running costs, and why the cheapest offers often cost more.

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WordPress or a Custom Website: Which One Does Your Business Need?

An honest comparison of WordPress and custom-coded websites: what custom really means, when WordPress is the right call, when custom pays off, plugin maintenance, hosting and speed, headless WordPress, three-year costs, and migrating without losing SEO.

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Software Maintenance Costs and SLAs: What You Are Actually Paying For

What a maintenance contract covers and what counts as new work, common pricing models, indicative monthly Rupiah ranges, SLA terms such as response time, severity levels, and uptime explained in minutes, and what to write into the contract.

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How to Write Software Requirements Vendors Can Actually Quote

A practical guide for business owners: why vague briefs get quotes five times apart, what a useful brief contains, user stories and plain-language acceptance criteria, what to leave out, MoSCoW, sketches, and how the brief becomes your contract scope.

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Software Development Stages: What Happens Each Week and What You Need to Do

A first-time client's guide to the software development process: discovery, design, sprints with regular demos, QA and UAT, deployment, handover and maintenance, typical durations, what the vendor needs from you, and signs a project is drifting.

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Business System Integration with APIs: Marketplaces, Stock, and Accounting

How to connect marketplaces, stock, and Accurate or Jurnal without staff re-typing data: integration patterns, webhooks versus polling, idempotency, master data and SKU mapping, retries and error queues, daily reconciliation, security, and when n8n or Make is enough.

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Modernising a Legacy Application: Stabilise, Upgrade, or Rewrite?

A practical guide to old PHP, CodeIgniter, VB6, and Delphi systems: the signs it is time to act, the first steps before any decision, the options from stabilising to a full rewrite, why big-bang rewrites fail, data migration, and parallel running.

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PWA vs Native App: When a Progressive Web App Is Enough

What a progressive web app is, where it beats a store app, its real limits on iOS such as push only from the Home Screen on 16.4 or later, Android and Trusted Web Activity, when native or Flutter is the better call, cost, and how to build one well.

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How Much Does It Cost to Build a Mobile App in Indonesia?

Indicative price ranges in Rupiah for simple, medium, and complex mobile apps, what really drives the number, Flutter versus two native apps, team and timeline, the yearly costs after launch, and how to compare vendor quotes.

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