Software your team logs into.

The part only your team sees. Behind a login, it holds your records and does the day-to-day work.

  • Accounts and roles, so people see what they should
  • Your records in one searchable place
  • Runs in a browser, on a phone too
The WeeklyAsk member dashboard, a GeekThangs build, on a laptop
The SessionSmithy session planner, a GeekThangs build, on a laptop

The tell is always the same.

A spreadsheet three people edit, a folder of PDFs nobody can search, and one person who knows where everything is.

A web app turns that into accounts, records and screens, so the business stops running on one person's memory and the version of the file that happened to be open.

It is a bigger job than a website and it is worth saying so. What it buys you is a business that keeps working the week that person is away.

What Comes With a Web App

  • Accounts and roles

    People see what they should and change only what they should.

  • Records in one place

    Searchable, instead of five spreadsheets and a folder.

  • Screens built around the job

    The ones your team opens on a Tuesday morning, built around how the work actually runs.

  • Runs in a browser

    Nothing to install, and it works on a phone.

  • Your data, when you ask

    Exported in a format something else can read.

Describe the spreadsheet, and we will tell you whether it needs software.

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What One Actually Looks Like

Ones we run ourselves. Open any of them: these are working accounts, not screenshots of a plan.

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How an App Takes Shape

A small first version, real users early, and it grows from what they do.

We watch the current way

The spreadsheet, the folder, the person who knows. What the software has to replace is whatever they are doing by hand.

When the Spreadsheet Should Stay

Not the right fit if software you can buy already does it. Sometimes the honest answer is an off-the-shelf tool and an afternoon setting it up, and we would rather tell you that than build a worse version of it.

Not sure which one you need? Tell us the problem and we will say which of the six fixes it.

All Six, Side by Side
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Questions People Ask About Web Apps

Do we have to move everything over at once?

No. The first version does one job well, and the rest of the business keeps running the way it does now until that job is proven.

What happens to the spreadsheet?

It gets imported, so nobody retypes it. Once the app holds the records, the spreadsheet stops being the place people look.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. It runs in a browser, so there is nothing to install and it opens on whatever people already carry.

Who can see what?

You decide. Accounts and roles set who sees which records and who is allowed to change them.

What if we outgrow it?

The first version is built to be added to. When your team wants more, we plan the next round from how they used it, and if you ever want to leave, your records export in a format any other tool can open.

Tell us what the spreadsheet does.

Describe the thing three people are editing and the job it is holding together. We will tell you whether it needs software or a better spreadsheet.