Website vs. web application — the actual difference
A business website explains your services and captures leads — it's primarily a content product. A web application contains real user logic: accounts, roles and permissions, persistent data, workflows, and actions a user actually takes inside it, not just reads. See Website vs Web Application: What Does Your Business Actually Need? for the fuller decision framework.
Discovery and product scope
Before any build, we map the actual workflow the application needs to support — who uses it, what decisions or actions they take, and what data has to persist. This is scoped work, similar in spirit to the Revenue Audit for the website/lead side, but focused on product logic rather than lead flow.
Frontend, backend and database
Next.js/React on the frontend, a proper backend (API routes or a dedicated service depending on scope), and a real database for anything that needs to persist beyond a page load — not a website with a form bolted on. Which specific database and hosting model fits depends on data volume and access patterns, decided during scoping.
Authentication, roles and permissions
Login, role-based access (e.g. admin vs. client vs. team member), and permission boundaries are core to a web application in a way they usually aren't for a marketing website. See How to Plan Roles and Permissions in a Web Application for how this gets designed before a line of code is written.
APIs, integrations and AI features
Where relevant, the application connects to your existing CRM, calendar or messaging tools (see Integrations), and can include AI features — summarization, classification, a conversational layer — where they solve a real problem inside the product, not as decoration. See How to Add AI Features to an Existing Web Application.
Testing, deployment and maintenance
Testing against real user flows before launch, deployment on infrastructure appropriate to the product's actual traffic/data needs, and an agreed maintenance arrangement afterward — a web application, unlike a static marketing site, has ongoing operational needs (data backups, dependency updates, monitoring) that need to be planned for, not assumed away.
Security and data handling
Access control, data minimisation and a clear answer to "who can see what" are designed in from the start — see AI Intake Security & GDPR for the related question of data handling on the marketing/lead side, and note that a full application with user accounts carries additional security considerations (session handling, access logging) beyond that page's scope.
Mobile — an honest breakdown
We build responsive, mobile-first web applications and PWAs (installable, offline-capable web apps) in-house. We do not have an in-house native iOS/Android or Flutter/React Native team, and we won't claim to. If a project genuinely needs native mobile, we'll say so directly and can bring in a suitable partner for that specific piece rather than overselling capability we don't have. See PWA vs Native Mobile App for a Business MVP for when a PWA is honestly enough.
What happens next
- 01
We talk through what you need
The problem, the people who will use it and what runs it today.
- 02
We write the scope
What is built first, what is deliberately left out and what needs a decision from you.
- 03
Price agreed in writing
One price for that scope, approved by you before any work starts.
- 04
We build in stages you can review
You see working software along the way, not a reveal at the end.
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Test, hand over, document
Your code, your accounts and your domain, with documentation that lets someone else run it.
Who you would be working with
- Company · Who you would be working with
- LATYNEX Digital is a service line of Latynex Trade OÜ, a company registered in Estonia (EU). Contact: info@latynexdigital.com.
- How we work · Delivery
- Remote, in English, with the person who would run the project. No local office is implied in any market.
- How we work · Commercial terms
- One scope and one price, agreed in writing before work starts. Your accounts, code and domain stay yours; any access we use is granted by you and can be withdrawn.
There are no client case studies on this page, and none are implied. What LATYNEX has built and runs itself is on the portfolio, each system labelled by stage. Published prices are on the pricing page; anything not listed there is scoped and quoted after review.
Questions
How is this different from Business Website Design?+
A website explains your business and captures leads. A web application has user accounts, roles, persistent data and workflows — genuinely different scope and different pricing logic.
Do you build native mobile apps?+
Not in-house — we build responsive web applications and PWAs, and we're upfront if a project needs a native app, rather than overselling capability we don't have.
Can you add this to an existing product instead of building from scratch?+
Yes — adding a dashboard, a role, an integration or an AI feature to an existing application is common scoped work, not only greenfield builds.
What's the starting point for a first conversation?+
Describe the actual workflow or problem you need the application to handle — that's what determines scope, not a generic package.
Do you have live examples of this specific kind of build?+
Our own internal automation systems (Freelance Hunter AI, LATYNEX Intelligence, Tender Broker Agent — see Portfolio) demonstrate real backend/AI/data-pipeline work; a full authenticated multi-user portal is a capability we're offering based on the same team and stack, honestly not yet shown via a public live example.