Apps and websites for businesses that wanted to grow.
Augend Tech was a product studio in Kolkata. Between 2020 and 2022 it defined, designed and built more than 30 web and mobile products for over 25 clients in eight countries.
The studio no longer takes on new projects.
Selected work
A sample of the products the studio specified and built, from booking systems to back-office software.
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Sports venue booking
Customers booked slots online and could pay half up front. Staff took bookings from the front desk, phone and WhatsApp in the same calendar and sent payment links with automatic reminders.
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Community marketplace
An app for exchanging, borrowing and donating everyday products. It reached 30,000 downloads before the client's in-house team took it over.
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Multi-school platform
One system that ran many schools: courses, video lessons, attendance, teacher assignment, fees, subscriptions and assessments.
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Online store with loyalty
A store for a leather-goods brand with its own points programme: points for signing up and referring friends, gift cards, coupons, online payment or cash on delivery, and shipment tracking.
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Production back office
Software for a garment maker: purchase orders with GST, materials and stock, production batches sent to outside job workers, bills, and access set by role for purchasing, store, production and accounts staff.
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Local discovery app
A consumer app for finding events, meet-ups, restaurants and leisure activities nearby, with ticket booking for events.
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Meal subscriptions
A subscription platform for a restaurant's regular customers, with card payments and address lookup at checkout.
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Grocery delivery app
Product design for an organic dairy and produce delivery app: daily, weekday and weekend milk subscriptions, order tracking, coupons, and reward points for deliveries and referrals.
What the studio built
Every project started with how the client's business worked. The software followed from that.
- Product definition
- Discovery with the client's team, then written requirements and screens agreed before any code was written.
- Mobile apps
- Android and iOS apps for customers and for staff, built with React Native, Flutter or Ionic.
- Websites and web apps
- Online stores, booking systems, customer portals and company websites.
- Back-office systems
- Stock, production, orders and staff consoles, with access set by role.
- Payments and integrations
- Razorpay and Stripe checkout, payment links, SMS, email and WhatsApp messages, delivery tracking.
- Subscriptions and loyalty
- Recurring orders, points, referral rewards, gift cards and coupons that brought customers back.
How a project ran
Five stages, from the first conversation to launch day.
Discovery
Learning how orders, bookings or stock moved through the client's business, and where time and money were lost.
Specification
Writing down what the product would do, screen by screen, and agreeing it with the client.
Build
Design and development in short cycles, with working versions for the client to try along the way.
Testing
The client tested the product against the agreed specification before anything went live.
Launch and handover
Release to the stores and the web, then ongoing support or a handover to the client's own team.