Algeria AgencyDevelopment
Web & software development
Sites, shops, applications and internal tools — built to be maintained, not merely delivered, and handed over with their sources.
We write code you own. On delivery you receive the sources, the access and the documentation, and you can hand the work to anyone. That is an unusual position for an agency, and it is deliberate: a client held in place by technical lock-in is an unhappy client who stays.
We build with what comes afterwards in mind. Speed on an Algerian mobile network, hosting cost, how easily a third party could pick the project up: those are design decisions, not end-of-project optimisations.
The first question we ask is never "which features?" but "what does this product have to trigger, and in whom?". A specification full of features produces software nobody uses; a clear answer to that question produces something smaller, faster to deliver and easier to correct.
We also turn work down. A project with nobody accountable on the client side, a budget that visibly does not cover the scope, a mobile app that should have been a website: saying so beforehand costs a conversation, discovering it afterwards costs a project.
What we usually find
- Your site was delivered, and then nobody could touch it without calling its author back.
- You were asked for a list of features, never for what you wanted to achieve.
- Your internal tool is a shared file that three people edit at the same time.
- You pay a monthly subscription for software you do not own.
What changes
A product you own
Sources, access and documentation delivered. Changing supplier becomes a commercial decision again rather than a technical problem.
Fast where your customers are
Tested on a modest phone and an irregular connection, because that is your audience’s real access condition.
Editable without us
Content, prices, photographs and pages change from an interface, with no invoice and no waiting.
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Website Design & Development
A site that is fast on an Algerian phone, that you own outright, and that any developer can take over without coming back to us.Software Development
An internal tool built around how you actually work, when nothing on the market fits — and only in that case.Mobile App Development
An app when it is justified: repeated use, phone hardware, or work without a connection. Otherwise, we will tell you so.E-Commerce Development
An online shop built for the Algerian market: delivery by wilaya, cash on delivery, and card payment once you have it.CIB/Edahabia Payment Development
Algerian card payment on your site: the bank application, the technical integration, and the failure cases nobody tests.Legacy System Modernisation
Replacing an old application, a spreadsheet that became critical, or a paper procedure — without losing the data or stopping the business. And without doing it when it is not necessary.
Is this the right fit for you?
This is for you if
- You want to own what you pay for, sources included.
- Your product has to serve mobile users, in Algeria, on uneven connections.
- You accept scoping before building, even when it is slower at the start.
This is not for you if
- You want the cheapest and fastest possible. That is not what we do well.
- Nobody on your side can decide or approve. A project without a counterpart stalls, whatever the budget.
- You need a standard tool the market already sells. We will tell you to buy it.
What we commit to
Sources handed over at every stage
Not at the end, not against a final payment. You hold the code as it is written.
No technical lock-in
Nothing proprietary that only we could maintain. Another developer has to be able to take over.
Maintenance stays optional
A delivered project must be able to live without a contract with us. That constraint is what forces us to deliver it properly.
Building for the Algerian context
The reference device is not the office fibre connection but an entry-level phone on irregular 4G. That rules out heavy builds that only render properly on a good connection, and it changes design decisions in the first week rather than at optimisation time.
Bilingualism is structural: many products have to exist in at least French and Arabic, with a layout that flips right to left. Handled at design time it costs almost nothing; added afterwards it means revisiting every page.
Finally, hosting and payment carry their own constraints here — foreign currency, bank applications, hardware availability. These are design subjects rather than logistics, and we raise them during scoping.
Frequently asked questions
What technologies do you work in?
We choose based on the project and on who will have to maintain it, not on a house preference. We explain the choice before starting.
Do you offer maintenance?
Yes, and it is optional. A delivered project must be able to live without a maintenance contract with us.
Can you take over an existing site?
Often, yes. We start with a code audit so we can tell you honestly whether taking it over costs less than rebuilding it.
How long does a project take?
Development is rarely the limiting factor. The real timeline depends mostly on your content and your approvals, and we tell you which of the two is holding the project up.
Do you work fixed-price or time and materials?
Fixed price after scoping, against a written scope. Anything outside it is quoted and accepted before it is done, never discovered on an invoice.
How to start
Pick the service that matches, or simply describe what the product has to make possible, and for whom.
We come back with a scope: the smallest version that answers the need, what can wait for a second release, and a firm estimate. Scoping is billed when it is substantial, and deducted if you give us the build.
What we have written on this subject
Website, app or custom software: which one, and in what order
Three very different things share the name "IT project". Choosing the wrong one costs more than building the right one badly.Taking back a system nobody answers for: what can be recovered, what has to be rebuilt
Your site runs, your software runs, and whoever built them has stopped replying. A great deal of the answer is public and free.Custom software: the specification you write is not the one you need
Nobody knows what they want before using it. A complete specification written beforehand is a guess set down in the present tense.Artificial intelligence: what it does well, what it invents, and what you cannot hand it
Its failure mode is not breakage, it is confident error. It produces text just good enough that nobody checks it.Mobile apps: the weight and the asks decide more than the features
What makes people abandon an app is settled before the first feature: the download, the sign-up, the permissions.Your first AI invoice: the lines that were not in the calculation
The estimate said one amount and the invoice says another. The gap is almost never an error: it is six lines nobody counted.Paying an AI supplier from Algeria
The project is scoped, the team is ready, and the card is declined. That is not a fault: it is the service-import regime.The clause your supplier contract does not contain
Your contract describes a service: availability, support, price. It almost never says what the supplier is allowed to do with your data.The pilot that will never ship: the signs, from week two
A pilot that fails rarely fails at the end. It fails in the second week, quietly, and everybody carries on for three months.Replacing a system that still works
Four reasons justify replacing an old application. Outside those four, keeping it is almost always the right call — and nobody has an interest in telling you so.The cutover: running the old and the new at the same time
Replacing a system does not happen over a weekend. It happens across a period when both run, and that period has to be designed.When it works: what breaks next, and in what order
Growth breaks a business before it breaks a campaign. The constraint does not disappear, it moves — and never to where you are watching.
Let us talk about your project
A free audit, no commitment: we look at your online presence and tell you what is holding it back.
- Sources handed over at every stage
- No technical lock-in
- Maintenance stays optional