Web App Development: Login, Roles, Daily Work

Web app development is the URL a shift opens every morning: a login, a role, a record that changes, a next action. A marketing site with a password on one PDF folder is still a brochure. If we quote both as the same job, both ship late.

CodeLoop Studio in Sarajevo builds the logged-in product when Excel, mail, and WhatsApp are no longer a system. The commercial page is custom software development. How to choose the contract is web app versus website. This note is what we actually freeze before we pick a stack.

What web app development has to mean on a brief

Who signs in. What they are allowed to see. What happens after save. Which systems already exist — payments, identity, a warehouse file nobody wants to retype. None of that is a theme. If Google finding you is the job, stop here and read website development notes.

A shop with a cart is still a shop, even if buyers have accounts. That work sits on ecommerce website development. A native store binary is a third contract. We will say so before kickoff.

What we ship, and what we will not rename

• Roles on paper first. Who approves, who only reads. A third role waits for v2 unless the brief says otherwise.

• A named owner. Weekly demo you can click. “Backend is still working” is not a status.

• You keep the repo. Hosting keys and source stay yours. We do not hold the app hostage after the last invoice.

• Typical custom arc: 3–9 months. A narrower MVP can be shorter when v1 is frozen. Cost drivers are web app cost in BiH — no poster number here.

Proof we can point at, without invented MAU

Hena Em is bookings and a fleet staff actually run. LipoDIETA is a protocol with accounts, not a mock login on a slide. cijene.me is a public comparison product with clients. Koliko is bar inventory on mobile — not a web app, same studio, same refusal to relabel a site as software.

A heavier content-and-roles product is a web portal. A pipeline tool is custom CRM development. WordPress membership as a shortcut is how v1 dies on the third plugin update — when not WordPress.

How to start

Send who logs in, what they do after login, and which integrations already exist. Kickoff is on Dobrinja or on a call. We reply within 24 hours — online estimate or contact. If the job is a public page, we will say that before a contract.