What does a custom web application cost?
Scoped MVPs start from €15K ex. VAT. The price depends on the number of user roles, integrations, and the complexity of your core workflow — discovery gives you a fixed quote before any build starts.
Web app development for Ghent companies
Ghent has one of the strongest startup and scale-up scenes in Belgium — and most of those products are web applications. The DK Studio builds them: SaaS products, customer portals, internal dashboards, and the integrations that connect them to the rest of your stack.
We are a senior engineering studio based in Antwerp, an hour from Ghent, working with founders and product teams who need production-grade software without big-agency overhead.
Applications that survive their first customers
An MVP that falls over at the first real workload is not viable, minimal or otherwise. We build web applications in TypeScript on Next.js and Node.js with the foundations that matter: typed APIs, authentication and role management, automated tests on critical paths, and deploy pipelines that catch regressions.
That foundation pays off when you scale. Adding a feature to a typed, tested codebase takes days; adding it to an untyped tangle takes weeks and breaks two other things.
Scope honestly, ship in milestones
Most SaaS budgets die from scope creep, not engineering cost. Our discovery process cuts your feature list down to what the first paying customer actually needs, then sequences the rest into milestones. You get a fixed quote per milestone and a working product at the end of each one.
Typical engagements: an MVP scoped from €15K, shipped in six to ten weeks, with analytics and GDPR-compliant tracking wired in so you can measure activation from week one.
Integrations included
Real products live in an ecosystem: payments (Stripe, Bancontact), CRM, email, accounting, auth providers, internal APIs. We have wired them all, and we design integration boundaries so a third-party outage degrades your product gracefully instead of taking it down.
Pricing indication
From €15K
Full-stack web apps, e-commerce, and platforms — All prices ex. VAT · Indicative starting points · Fixed quote after discovery
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Frequently asked questions
Do you take over existing codebases?
Yes, after a technical audit. We assess the state of the codebase, flag the risks, and give you an honest read on whether to refactor, extend, or rebuild.
Can you work on-site in Ghent?
Discovery sessions and key milestones can happen in person — Ghent is an easy trip from Antwerp. Day-to-day collaboration runs async with weekly demos.