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Custom Software Development in Melbourne.

Custom software that replaces the spreadsheets and duct tape, shipped in quarters, not years. We build for Melbourne businesses with a senior team and pricing in AUD.

Melbourne market

Custom Software Development that fits how Melbourne operates.

Melbourne is Australia's deepest startup and SaaS market, with a dense retail-tech and ecommerce base and a design-literate buyer who expects product polish. Budgets here favour multi-tenant products and the operational software that scales a growing brand.

Melbourne is where Australia's SaaS founders concentrate, and the work follows: multi-tenant products, subscription billing, onboarding flows, and the admin tooling a growing software business needs once the first hundred customers arrive. The city also carries a heavy retail and ecommerce base, so a second stream of briefs is operational — order and inventory platforms, dealer and wholesale portals, and Odoo or ERP work for brands outgrowing spreadsheets and QuickBooks. Melbourne buyers tend to be design-literate and product-minded, which means a proposal that leads with a clean clickable flow lands better than one that leads with a tech stack. We find founders here value an honest cut-list more than a long feature list, because the city has watched enough startups stall by building version two before anyone used version one. AEST overlap keeps weekly sprint reviews live rather than asynchronous, and AUD quoting with GST itemised reads as standard professionalism to a Melbourne finance team rather than a courtesy.

What we build for Melbourne businesses

Scope, line by line.

  • Two-week paid discovery with a fixed-bid proposal at the end
  • Architecture diagram and data model
  • Authentication via Clerk, WorkOS, or Auth.js
  • Postgres database with migrations
  • Admin dashboard and role-based access control
  • REST or tRPC API with typed contracts
  • Stripe billing integration when relevant
  • Background jobs via Inngest or Trigger.dev
  • Observability with Sentry and Axiom
  • Production deployment with staging environment
Compliance

How we handle Melbourne data.

We design to the Privacy Act 1988 and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles, keeping personal data handling, consent, and breach-notification posture in scope from the data model up. Every quote separates GST as its own line so the price you approve is the price you pay.

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