REGION · GRONINGEN
Web development in Groningen.
Groningen with its university and startup scene. We work digitally from The Hague, with quarterly visits for strategy.
Groningen with its university and startup scene. We work digitally from The Hague, with quarterly visits for strategy.
NedDev builds websites, SaaS platforms and AI systems for companies in Groningen, from our studio at Den Haag in Rotterdam. With the University of Groningen and a lively startup scene, Groningen has many young companies that want to turn their idea into a scalable product. For that market we build software that scales with the growth. Groningen is the furthest from our studio, so we work mostly digitally with weekly demos and plan quarterly visits for strategy. Projects start from €2,500.
Web development in Groningen is about building websites, web applications and SaaS platforms for the northern business climate. The city combines a large student population with a growing startup scene around the University of Groningen and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences. That produces many young, ambitious companies that want to take their first serious step online.
NedDev works as a The Hague studio for clients in Groningen. Groningen is a long way off, and we are open about that: we build for the north with a digital way of working that causes no delay, and we travel deliberately when a strategy conversation around the table delivers more than a video call.
For companies in Groningen we often build:
Groningen is a student city with a surprisingly mature startup ecosystem. Around the University of Groningen and initiatives like Founded in Groningen, new companies keep emerging. The characteristic pattern: a good idea, a small team and the ambition to grow fast. The biggest pitfall is software that works for the first ten users but seizes up at the first hundred.
That is what we build against. For startups we use our multi-tenant SaaS architecture, so the codebase grows from the first customer to large numbers, with separated data and permissions built in by default. If a Groningen product wants to set itself apart with a smart feature, we build that through AI development, for example a knowledge base that pulls answers from your own sources, with source attribution so every answer can be traced.
We are an early-stage startup with a limited budget, can you do something for us? Yes. We cut an ambitious plan into a well-defined first product that delivers value on its own. That way you invest in a focused way, validate your idea and then build further without a rebuild.
The City of Groningen actively supports the business climate, see gemeente.groningen.nl. How we build an ambitious platform step by step is shown by Cor, an AI platform where memory stays strictly separated per client and which came about in phases.
Groningen is the furthest from our studio in The Hague, and that calls for a way of working that works well at a distance. For the north we lean on a digital core: weekly demos, shared access to progress and short written lines. For strategy and the bigger choices we plan quarterly visits, where we sit at the table for a full day and cut decisions. That way we combine the speed of digital work with the personal contact a good collaboration needs.
We build our websites and interfaces on Next.js, which produces fast, easily findable pages that run smoothly on mobile. The backend runs on Laravel. That consistent stack keeps the product manageable, even when your startup grows fast and the team changes.
A typical Groningen project looks like this:
Many Groningen founders register their first company at the Chamber of Commerce and then look for a build partner. For such teams a well-defined first platform is the smartest first step, and that is where we like to begin.
Our internal stack packages for multi-tenant SaaS. A Laravel + Filament starter, an audit-trail engine, and a tenant-impersonation package that runs across 12 clients.
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14 EXPERIMENTS · LIVE DEMOSYes, startups are a big part of what we do. In Groningen, around the University of Groningen and initiatives like Founded in Groningen, many young companies emerge with a good idea and the ambition to grow fast. The biggest pitfall for those teams is software that works fine for the first users but seizes up at the first hundred. We build on multi-tenant SaaS architecture, so the product grows along without having to be rewritten halfway. On top of that we cut an ambitious plan into a well-defined first product that delivers value on its own, so you invest in a focused way, validate your idea and then build further on the same foundation instead of starting over.
Groningen is the furthest from our studio in The Hague, so we are honest about that and organize the collaboration around it. The core is digital: weekly demos where you watch the product grow, shared access to progress and short written lines so you always know where it stands. For strategy and the bigger choices we plan quarterly visits, where we sit at the table for a full day to cut decisions. That mix gives you the speed of digital work with the personal contact a good project needs. In practice Groningen clients notice little of the distance, because the rhythm of demos and meetings is fixed.
Projects at NedDev start from €2,500. A full SaaS platform costs more, because that involves user management, scalability and ongoing maintenance. For startups with a limited budget we like to work with a well-defined first product: a smaller, focused version that validates your idea and that we then build out step by step on the same foundation. That way you spread the investment and build nothing twice. We would rather give you an honest range after a short conversation than a number that looks too good up front. The ongoing costs for hosting and management we make clear in advance, so you know from the start what the platform costs per month.