Software
See it, click it and test it before you commit, a prototype that proves the idea, the feasibility and the cost.
Software prototype development at Superstack is for owners and founders about to fund a build who are not yet sure it is the right one. In one to three weeks you get screens your team can click, proof the hard part works, and an estimate built on evidence.
paying for a build nobody has seen
software prototype development, from sketch to working code
Every prototype exists to answer the question you are least sure about. That is sometimes whether users understand the idea, sometimes whether a connection or an AI step is possible at all. We pick the cheapest prototype that settles it, then decide together what comes next.
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A clickable prototype is designed screens linked together so it feels like the real app, with nothing behind them yet. Your operations manager taps through a job from booking to sign-off on her own phone and tells us which step is wrong before any code exists.
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When the risk is in the mechanics, not the look, we build a thin slice of real software. A distributor asks whether drivers can scan a delivery and update stock from a van with poor signal, so we build that screen and take it on a route.
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A spike is proof of concept software for one hard question: whether your accounting package accepts the data you push in, whether a label printer talks to a browser, or whether an AI model reads your handwritten job sheets reliably. We test on real data and report back.
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We put the prototype in front of the people who will use it and watch, without helping. A receptionist tries to book a repeat appointment while the phone rings. A technician fills in a job sheet with gloves on. Where they hesitate or guess, we note it.
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At the end you get a short report: what users struggled with, what changed, what the spikes proved and what remains unknown. The estimate with it rests on screens that exist and problems already solved, so it is tighter than a quote from a two-page brief and easier to approve.
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A throwaway prototype is fine when it only has to answer a question. When the working prototype will become the product, we build it on the same foundations as a Superstack system, so the login, database and delivery screen your drivers tested carry into the real build, not a rewrite.
You write the brief, a page on the problem. We sketch wireframes and turn the agreed ones into a clickable prototype within days. Five people from your team test it while we watch. We refine what tripped them up, then build the working prototype for the riskiest part. The last meeting is a go or no-go decision with an estimate for the board. You decide at every step.
A spike connects to whatever it has to prove: Your accounting software to push a test invoice and read it back, a barcode scanner, an AI model over a sample of your documents, or your old server. We use test data where we can and show you what moved.
Any system with an API connects. Click a logo to visit them.
Xero
MYOB
Stripe
Google Workspace
Microsoft 365
Twilio
Shopify
HubSpotAI is optional, and a prototype is the right place to find out whether it belongs in your system at all. Read how we use AI and where it fits inside business process automation.
We run extraction, classification, drafting or search over a sample of your job sheets or emails and show you how often it gets them right, so you fund it on evidence, not a demo.
Most prototypes start as a web app, because that is where the office team lives: the dispatch board, the quote builder, the approvals screen. We prototype the screens they use most.
An app prototype NZ field staff can hold is the fastest way to learn whether they will use it. We put it on a technician's phone and watch them try a job sheet between jobs.
When customers will log in to book, pay or check progress, we prototype their side too, because they get no training and no second chance. All three share one design and, once working, one database.
Anyone about to fund a build, most often:
Test the booking flow with a receptionist and a technician first.
PropertyPut a maintenance request screen in front of tenants and watch.
Healthcare adminProve an intake or referral flow works within the privacy rules.
DistributionCheck scanning and stock updates hold up in the van.
Start-upsA prototype for investors that shows the product working before a full build.
Quickest start
We prototype your version of an existing Superstack module, such as a booking system, with your stages and words, before you commit.
Most common
The clickable prototype shows how several modules join up on screen, and the working prototype tests the join that worries you most.
Fully bespoke
For a fully bespoke product or start-up idea, the prototype is the first proof it works and what the estimate is priced from.
Start with whatever you are least sure of. If it is whether people understand and want the tool, a clickable prototype answers that in days and costs the least. If it is whether a device, an integration or an AI step works at all, you need a working prototype before build. A picture cannot prove a connection.
One to three weeks, depending on the kind. A clickable prototype of a few screens sits at the short end, including a round of changes. A working prototype or a feasibility spike takes longer, because real code and real connections are involved. We agree the scope and finish date up front, and they hold.
A fraction of the build it protects. We quote it before we start, and the price depends on how many screens we design, whether a working slice is needed and how many spikes there are. The report and the estimate are yours either way, and that estimate is tighter than one from a written brief.
Yes, when we plan it that way. A clickable prototype is pictures, so its value is the design, which the build reuses. A working prototype on the evolvable code path shares its foundations with the full system, so the login, database and tested screens become the first sprint of the real product, not a throwaway demo.
You do, and we put that in writing before we start. The designs, the code, the test notes and the findings report are yours once the prototype is paid for. Take the estimate to another developer or shelve the idea, and everything comes with you. We keep nothing back to make you build with us.
Yes. Testing with your receptionist, your technicians or your real customers is the point, because they behave differently from us. We ask for five people who will use the tool daily, sit with each one and watch them attempt real tasks. If customers are off limits for now, the staff who deal with them stand in.
Built around the way you work.
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