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Mobile
React Native vs Native Apps: Which Should You Build?
React Native or fully native Swift and Kotlin? Compare cost, performance, time to market and maintenance to choose the right approach for your app.
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Holots Dev Team
Web
Next.js vs WordPress for Business Websites
Should your company website run on WordPress or a headless Next.js stack? Compare speed, SEO, security, editing experience and long-term cost.
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Holots Dev Team
Performance
Passing Core Web Vitals with Next.js
The handful of decisions that matter most for LCP, INP and CLS, and how we apply them on every client project.
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Holots Dev Team
Automation
Build vs Buy: When to Create Custom Internal Tools
Off-the-shelf software or a custom internal tool? A simple framework for deciding when building your own system saves time and money.
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Holots Dev Team
AI
How to Build an AI Chatbot That Uses Your Own Data
A plain-English guide to retrieval-augmented generation (RAG): how AI assistants answer from your documents, and what it takes to make them reliable.
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Holots Dev Team
AI
Shipping AI features users actually trust
Evaluation, grounding and graceful failure: the three habits that separate useful AI features from demos.
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Holots Dev Team
Product
How to scope an MVP you won't have to throw away
A lean MVP doesn't have to mean a throwaway codebase. How we balance speed today with a foundation for tomorrow.
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Holots Dev Team
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