We build web applications in Dubai
Building web applications in Dubai
Qanat builds software for Dubai companies at a fixed price and a fixed date. Dubai has more software agencies per square kilometre than almost anywhere, which means the hard part is not finding a vendor — it is telling apart the ones who will still be reachable in month four.
- Scope
- Written
- Price
- Fixed
- Held back
- 20%
- Code
- Yours
Before anything is quoted
Agreed before we start
Until you accept
From the first commit
Scope
What a build of this kind actually contains.
Everything below is inside the quoted price. The items agencies leave out of a cheap quote — admin tooling, error states, deployment, handover — are the ones you end up paying for anyway.
- 01
Product and data modelling before any code is written
- 02
Design and build of every screen, including the empty and error states
- 03
Authentication, roles and permissions that survive an audit
- 04
Deployment, monitoring and a runbook you can actually follow
- 05
Handover session with the repository already in your organisation
What we build it with
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind
- Vercel
- AWS
How this goes wrong
The failure mode we see most often.
Scope written as a feature list rather than an outcome. A list of 40 features has no natural stopping point, which is how a 12-week build becomes a 9-month one. We scope to the outcome and cut features against it.
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
The constraint people miss in Dubai
Cheap quotes are usually cheap scopes. The gap between an AED 40,000 quote and an AED 140,000 quote for the same brief is almost always in what the cheap one silently excluded — and you find out in month three.
Who we build for in Dubai
- SMEs replacing spreadsheets and manual process
- Founders building a first product
- DIFC and free zone financial firms needing internal tooling
- Retail and B2B distribution digitising ordering
- Family-office groups modernising operations
What it costs
We do not publish a rate card, and you should distrust anyone who does.
The price of web applications is decided by scope, not by category. Two projects with the same label routinely differ by a factor of five, and a number quoted before anyone has read your requirements is a guess dressed as a quote.
What we commit to is this: one price, written against a scope you have read and agreed, fixed before work starts. If we estimated badly that is our problem, not a change request.
If you need a budget figure first
Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges, with every figure sourced. That is researched market data for budgeting — not our price list, and not a quote.
Questions
Web Application Development in Dubai
How much does a custom web application cost in Dubai?
There is no rate card, because the price is decided by scope rather than by category. Our UAE software cost guide publishes what the market charges so you can budget, with every figure sourced. Your own price is quoted once against a written scope and does not move afterwards.
Do we own the code?
Yes, from the first commit. The repository lives in your GitHub organisation, not ours, and the contract assigns the IP outright. Agencies that keep the code in their own account are creating a switching cost, not protecting you.
What is different about building software in Dubai?
Dubai buyers are usually on their second or third attempt. The market is dominated by large offshore delivery shops selling through local account managers, so the common experience is a strong pitch, a junior team, and a slow drift in scope. Quotes for the same brief routinely differ by a factor of five, which tells you the quotes are not measuring the same thing.
How long does it take to build web applications in Dubai?
It depends on the scope, and any studio quoting you a duration before reading your requirements is guessing. We commit to a specific date in the quote, once the scope is written, and you see the software running well before that date rather than at the end.
Start here
Building web applications? Tell us what it has to do.
A scope call, then a written scope and one fixed price against it. 20% of that price is held back until you accept the finished build, and the scope is yours to take elsewhere either way.
- Who reads it
- Alexandre Arnaud, Founder & Engineer. Not a coordinator, not an inbox.
- What happens
- A 20-minute call to pin the outcome, then a written scope and one fixed price against it.
- What it costs
- Nothing to get scoped and quoted. The quote is free and the scope is yours to take elsewhere.