App development in Galicia

Galicia has a business fabric spread across its seven cities and a dense network of towns: textiles and distribution around A Coruña, regional government and the university in Santiago, industry and the port in Vigo, agri-food in Lugo and Ourense. And everywhere, more and more projects are born digital from day one: online academies, paid communities, marketplaces, subscription services.

For those projects, having the technical team in the same region — same time zone, same context, the chance to meet when needed — is more useful than it seems. Product decisions are made better in a conversation than in an email thread with an agency a thousand kilometres away.

We work remotely with clients across Galicia and travel for the moments that merit it. The distance from Vigo to A Coruña or Santiago is not the problem; the problem is usually not having a technical counterpart who understands the business.

Many digital products fail by building too much before knowing whether anyone wants them. Our work in the definition phase is deliberately uncomfortable: we ask what happens if we remove each feature, until we are left with the smallest version that already solves something.

That doesn't mean building badly. The first version has to be small, not fragile: authentication, data and payments done properly from the start, because they are the most expensive parts to redo later.

In training and community products, the value lies in the content and in who has access to it. That is why we work with payment-based access control, profiles and, when needed, protection against recordings and screenshots, as in the Portal de Formación Lift desktop app.

Moving a community off third-party platforms and into its own app, as Lift did when it left Telegram, is also a decision about control: the data, the rules and the relationship with users become yours.