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Other ways to get it built, compared
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How a Zaions project compares with a big agency, a solo freelancer, building it yourself with AI, hiring your own team or renting developers by the hour.
Coming from an AI app builder
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How a Zaions project runs next to building your app yourself with an AI or no-code tool, and how to bring what you built to us as a brief.
Coming from a big agency
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How a Zaions project runs next to a big agency: who answers your brief, how you see progress, what you own at the end, and when the big agency is the better choice.
Coming from hourly developers
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How a Zaions project runs next to renting developers by the hour: who plans the work, what sets the price, and when hourly developers are the better choice.
Hiring your own team instead
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How a Zaions project compares with hiring your own developers, and how a first version built by us hands over to the team you hire later.
Coming from a solo freelancer
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How a Zaions project runs next to hiring one freelancer: which jobs one person covers well, and what a team adds for design, testing and the handover.
Page tours and How working with Zaions works
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Take a tour of any main page on zaions.com, or read How working with Zaions works: six steps, from picking a service to handover.
What you'll see, and what you'll own
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How a Zaions project runs, step by step: writing the brief, the written estimate, milestone links, the packages, the handover and paying an invoice.
Writing your brief: what to include
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What to put in a Zaions brief, field by field, with an example of a good one. Only your name and email are required; a napkin sketch is a fine start.
Questions before you hire us, answered
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Short answers about Zaions: who owns the code, what an app costs, how progress is shown, scope changes, maintenance, running costs and where the team is.
What you own at handover: the checklist
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The code repository and design files move to you at handover, every account ends in your name, and your store listing ships from your own developer account.
How a project runs, from brief to handover
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Every Zaions project runs in four steps: the brief, a written plan and estimate, a link to the working build at every milestone, then a full handover.
Open-source cleanup tools for developers
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Three MIT-licensed disk cleanup tools for developers from the Zaions team: windowsweep for Windows, macleanup for macOS and linux-cleanup for Linux.
Packages explained: which one fits you
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Which Zaions package fits your project, what every package includes, what gets its own estimate, and the running costs your estimate lists beside the price.
Paying an invoice: the reference to add
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How to pay a Zaions invoice or estimate: pick a method on zaions.com/payments, copy the details, and add the reference from your invoice to the payment note.