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Fixed-price vs Time and materials − what is best for your project?

Outsourcing has become a widely popular model for running business in the modern world and there is no surprise. Companies specializing in one field do not need to allocate finances, employ people and plan their job in a field they have no experience and knowledge at ― they may take advantage of outsourcing companies. These can be services of any kind ― IT, design, finances and other. However, when it comes to selecting a model for the contract and project’s realization, there might be an issue what to choose for your project. Mainly, there are two different approaches ― Fixed-price Model and Time and Materials Model. In this article we will discuss both models and identify their pros and cons in order to select the approach which suits your project best.

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Outsourcing vs hiring software developers

When it comes to development of the next software project, you may start to consider how to get resources for it. There are three ways – software developers outsourcing, in-house hiring or using freelancers. In this post we will compare outsourcing and hiring software developers. Those options have much more sense in a long run than using freelancers, so we will limit this comparison to them. We’re going to explain the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches in deep.

Łukasz Kosiński Chief Executive Officer

4 Best frameworks for cross-platform desktop app development

Have you ever noticed that most professional software and games are available for all the most popular platforms? This is normal, because when creating an application you want it to be available to as many customers as possible. A wider audience means more interest in your product, but also more potential profits you can get from it. So it is worth releasing your app on several, different platforms, but how to do it?

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Qt Charts in Qt 6.2

The Qt Charts module provides the possibility to display various types of charts in order to visualize data. It is available in the Qt framework already for a quite long time, but the framework itself constantly evolves and it’s being improved all the time, so there were changes made to this framework as well. The newest, long-term support (LTS) version of the Qt framework is Qt 6.2 and this version includes most of the changes and improvements. Take a look at our blog post to learn more about improvements made to the Qt Charts in Qt 6.2.

Łukasz Kosiński Chief Executive Officer