Journal
Journal: pricing
On this topic, 12 articles from the journal, from practical guides to behind the scenes of the product.
Custom restaurant software: ingredient costs, purchasing and schedules, without the till
A compliant till is a legal obligation and will remain so: a tool you have built must not take payments. Everything else, ingredient costs, purchasing, hygiene plans and scheduling, is currently rented as modules from vendors, two of four of whom refuse to display a price.
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Custom software or SaaS: the five-year calculation, including per-user subscriptions
SaaS costs little in month one and a lot in year five, especially when billed per user. Custom software does the reverse. Here are both columns side by side, with French agencies' public prices and the maintenance line quotes leave out.
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Lovable review 2026: what $25 buys, and what you take when you leave
Pro starts at $25 per month and top-ups cost $0.30 per credit. What remains is to establish what a credit buys, what is consumed while you do nothing, and what you retrieve when you decide to leave with your application.
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Claude Fable 5.1 pricing: the reduction is in the cache, not the headline rate
Anthropic introduced Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1. The per-token rate is unchanged; rereading context falls by 75%. In practice, long building sessions that keep the same project in view for hours become the cheapest way to work.
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How long does it take to create an application in 2026?
Hours, days or months for the same idea: the difference lies less in writing code than in the exchanges around it. Timelines, route by route.
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Why agency prices have not followed the fall in AI costs
What cost $60 per million tokens in late 2021 now costs between $0.06 and $0.40 at equivalent performance, a reduction of 150 to 1,000 times. Meanwhile, a developer's average daily rate in France remains around €629. Someone is keeping that margin.
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The 5 AI development traps nobody tells you about
Drift without specifications, false green lights, opaque credits, disposable code and dependence: five documented traps encountered in our own measurement campaigns, and a safeguard for each.
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What does an application built by agents really cost? Our bills, line by line
Unlimited AI plans are dying, and budgets are exploding at businesses without caps. We publish our real costs: $105.64 for a complete campaign of 5 judged tasks, from brief to verified product.
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Association software: manage members, tax receipts and general meetings without a budget
The volunteer treasurer juggles four files and an email folder. You can now direct the building of a custom tool managing members, receipts and meetings for the price of a subscription, around €20 per month.
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Custom management software for tradespeople: generic SaaS or your own tool?
Obat and similar software cover construction quotes and invoices well. The question arises when your way of working outgrows their boxes. Here is the tipping point, and what each side costs.
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How much does application development cost in 2026: agency, freelancer or AI?
An agency charges a median €30,000, a freelancer €8,000 to €20,000, and an AI agent team a few dozen euros per month. The full picture: what each option buys, and when each remains the right choice.
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Agency, freelancer or AI tool: how to choose when launching your product
You have a product idea and no technical team. Three paths are available, each with its own logic; the right one depends on how much control you want to keep.
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