Custom web apps
Customer portals, booking systems, and SaaS products, designed and built end to end.
Custom software studio · Queen Creek, Arizona
Software built to fit how your team actually works.
Fortine designs and builds custom web apps, internal tools, and integrations for teams who have outgrown off-the-shelf. Small crew, senior hands, code you own.
What we build
If your team keeps a spreadsheet that runs the business, or pastes data between three tools every morning, we can probably help.
Internal tools
Dashboards, admin panels, and workflow apps that replace the spreadsheet your operation runs on.
Integrations & APIs
We connect the systems you already pay for, so data moves on its own instead of by copy and paste.
First versions
A focused first release of a new product, small enough to ship in weeks and learn from.
Specialties: E-commerce Store Development · Laravel Web App Development · Real Estate and MLS API Integrations · WordPress Theme & Plugin Development
Our products
Tools we build and run ourselves
Alongside client work, we make our own software. The same care goes into both.
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Accessible web components and a theme layer that styles plain HTML. Native elements look right with no classes, and the whole look re-themes by changing a few tokens.
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wrshp.co →How we work
Like building a good fire: in order, and tended.
- 1 · Gather
A working session with your team to map the job, the people, and the systems. You leave with a written scope and a fixed first milestone.
- 2 · Kindle
Clickable designs of the core screens, tested with the people who will use them before any production code.
- 3 · Build
Weekly releases to a live staging site you can use, with a short demo each Friday.
- 4 · Tend
Launch, then ongoing care: updates, monitoring, and new features on a simple monthly plan.
How a small shop stays useful
We take on a few projects at a time so the people you meet are the people writing the code.
- You own everything
- Code, designs, and accounts are yours from day one, in your own repositories.
- Plain-language updates
- A short written note every week: what shipped, what’s next, and what we need from you.
- Boring technology
- Proven tools your next developer can pick up, chosen for the job rather than for novelty.
- Fixed first milestone
- The first phase has a set price and date, so you can judge the fit before committing further.
From the blog
Notes from the workbench
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Adding Microsoft SQL Server Support to Laravel Forge
Installing the Microsoft and PHP dependencies needed to connect a Laravel Forge server to SQL Server.
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Add Multicolored Shadows to Images with CSS Variables
Adding multicolored shadows to images using CSS pseudo-elements, filters, and custom properties.
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Validating a Domain on Mailgun with GoDaddy DNS Settings
Setting up a free Mailgun account with a GoDaddy-hosted domain so email from your website is less likely to land in spam.
Pull up a chair. Tell us what you’re building.
A 30-minute call, no slides. We’ll tell you honestly whether custom software is the right answer.