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80% of Your Software Budget Is Wasted on What Already Exists

Most software budgets go to rebuilding auth, payments, and user management from scratch. A tested core sends your budget to what makes you different.

EJ Boustany
EJ BoustanyFounder & Engineer, PaloozaLabs

I have always been into building software as side projects that I have built a few.

80% of Your Software Budget Is Wasted on What Already Exists

Some of them are a workout planner, a soccer social media platform with red/yellow cards instead of like interactions, and a guess the word learning game.

Based on my work experience as a software engineer working in the fields of ecommerce platforms and x-ray security scanning software, in addition to all the experience I got building side projects since the early years of university, I was able to build a tested core software architecture that includes authorization, authentication, security, users, roles, emails and notifications, subscriptions and payments.

My One Liner Pitch

Let me build your CUSTOM software on top of a tested core architecture so your budget goes straight to the features that actually differentiate your business.

I started to look for clients and was able to partner with a few founders that liked the idea of getting their software and having the budget go towards the core features. I was able to build more than 5 projects.

The recipe when starting to work with a new client, and after deeply understanding their idea, is to directly create a project that includes authorization, authentication, security, users, roles, emails and notifications, subscriptions and payments and directly start working on integrating the core feature the second day.

How Do I Differentiate Myself from Traditional Agencies?

I do not reengineer authentication, payments, and user management from scratch for every client. These problems are already solved and constantly improving. Your budget goes toward the features that actually differentiate your business.

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The AI Agent

I am currently working on an AI agent inhouse that is being trained on some of the projects I have built. This agent knows the core architecture since it has been fed multiple customized architectures and can help me and engineers working with me to write and build software that is based on a learned architecture. This will make AI outcomes structured and following specific rules taking into consideration scalability, separation of concerns, and flow organization.

AI and Software Engineers

Some might think that AI will be taking software engineers jobs and that might be true, but I think that in the upcoming years software engineers will be needed more than ever since a lot more people are building and vibe coding. The gap between what AI can generate and what production ready software actually requires is growing, and that is exactly the gap I am trying to bridge.

After the Work Is Done

After the work is done, clients pay a yearly maintenance fee. I keep fixing bugs and issues and take care of hosting and server management. Clients own 100% of the code. If at any point they want to take the project and hand it off to their own team or another agency, they can. No hostage situations.

What Would Be Your Concerns?

What would be your concerns working with someone like me? If you like to know more about the full process check out our process.

Thanks for reading.

We build custom software for startups and businesses. Behind every project is a core system with common features already built (auth, login, signup, payments, emails, user management) so we can focus entirely on what makes your product different. You own all the code. Ready to build? Let's talk.

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