What does a custom SaaS or web app cost?

Every build is scoped individually, so there is no fixed price list. Most focused MVPs start in the low five figures, while larger multi-tenant platforms grow from there. After a short discovery call we give you a clear, fixed scope and a predictable roadmap, no vague hourly estimates that quietly balloon over months.

Who owns the code and infrastructure?

You do, end to end. You own the entire codebase, the repositories and the infrastructure we set up for you. There is no vendor lock-in and no black box, you can take the project to any team at any time.

How long does a project take?

A typical MVP ships in 6 to 12 weeks, depending on scope and integrations. We work in clear milestones with regular previews, so you always see progress and can steer the build as it takes shape.

What kind of software do you build?

Bespoke, production-grade software: multi-tenant SaaS platforms, customer and client portals, web apps and dashboards, internal tools and automations, CRMs, and AI agents and copilots. If you can picture it, we can build it, we do not resell templates.

Do you build AI features into products?

Yes. AI is native to how we build, from assistants and copilots to retrieval-augmented (RAG) search and workflow automation, wired directly into your product and data rather than bolted on as a gimmick.

Do you work with clients outside Cyprus?

Absolutely. DevCore is a Cyprus-registered studio working with clients internationally and remotely. You get a direct line to the senior engineers actually building your product, wherever you are based.

What happens after launch?

Launch is a milestone, not the end. We harden security (RLS, encryption, audit logging), set up automated tests and CI, and can continue with iteration, support and new features as your product grows.

i18n

Translation Studio — the native Shopify translation engine.

We built Swing2sleep a bespoke translation platform that writes straight into Shopify's native Translations API — covering the products, metafields, theme sections, menus and alt-texts that Translate & Adapt and Langify never reach, with glossaries, reference masking and task-based AI routing.

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Client

Swing2sleep

Industry

E-commerce / Shopify

Scope

Custom Shopify translation app

Resources

Products, Metafields, Themes, Menus

// the_challenge

Standard Shopify translation tools kept getting in the way.

Swing2sleep sells its baby swings internationally on Shopify and must keep products, metafields and theme copy consistent across several languages. Shopify Translate & Adapt and Langify both broke down in daily use — limited AI, no real bulk control and translations that never reached the storefront.

AI limited to a few fields, with no control over model, tone or terminology
Metafields, metaobjects and nested rich-text shown only partially
Alt-texts saved on the wrong resource and never rendered in the storefront
Langify's parallel database is decoupled from Shopify — with per-language monthly fees

// the_solution

One translation engine, built on Shopify's native API.

DevCore designed and built a bespoke translation platform that saves every translation through translationsRegister directly on the original resource — compatible with Markets, Hydrogen and any storefront, with no vendor lock-in. It unlocks the resources other tools miss and adds the quality, safety and team layers a real localisation workflow needs.

~2M

Words translated in under 1 hour

>60

Previously inaccessible fields translated

100%

Tone of voice & native speaking covered

// what_it_does

What the software can do — at a glance.

Full access to Shopify's native Translations API

Every translation is written via translationsRegister straight onto the original resource — fully compatible with Markets, Hydrogen and any storefront. No parallel database, no vendor lock-in.

Resources that are otherwise invisible

We surface fields Translate & Adapt and Langify can't deliver cleanly: product, variant and shop metafields including nested metaobjects; theme sections and theme-app-embeds as their own virtual resource type; menus with LINK buckets, shop policies, email templates and delivery methods; and rich-text references with correct resolution of images, products and collections.

The alt-text fix no other tool does

Shopify keeps two parallel image resources (MediaImage and ProductImage), each with its own alt-text — themes read one or the other, so alt-texts often stay in the source language even when Translate & Adapt shows them as translated. On save, the engine writes to both resources and matches images by URL, so alt-texts reliably appear in the chosen language in the storefront.

Bulk workflows with real control

Multi-select then “translate selected” across every resource, language and field type. Cancelable jobs with a 45 s timeout and exponential backoff, plus an empty-fields-only mode versus overwrite, strictly filtered by the current search.

Quality & safety layer

Glossary and fixed terms for brand terms (“Swing2Sleep”, product lines) with case-sensitive placement, a blacklist and ignore-values for fields and values that must never be translated, plus reference masking that hides GIDs, URLs, handles, {{ liquid }} and [[ placeholders ]] before the AI call and restores them 1:1 afterwards.

AI routing instead of a one-size model

Task-based model routing (e.g. Gemini 2.5 as the default, a dedicated large-text model above 20k characters) with deterministic settings (temperature 0, top_p 0.1) for reproducible results.

Built for teams and daily operation

Live collaboration presence, per-field history and “outdated” badges when the source changes, a KPI dashboard with coverage per language and resource bucket, cross-language search with deep-links straight into the editor, and auto-translate rules for newly created products.

// inside_the_app

A look inside the platform.

// the_result

Translations that live natively in Shopify.

Swing2sleep's translations now live natively in Shopify, are Markets-ready and visible in the storefront (including alt-texts), editorially controllable and edited in minutes instead of days — with no monthly per-language fees and no dependency on an app database.

Translations stored natively via Shopify's Translations API — Markets & headless ready
Alt-texts reliably rendered in the storefront in every language
Brand terms, references and placeholders protected on every AI call
Coverage dashboard, per-field history and cross-language search for the whole team

Built with

Shopify APItranslationsRegisterMetafieldsMetaobjectsThemesGlossariesAI RoutingBulk JobsMarkets

Want localisation built around your exact store?

Like Swing2sleep, we can build a bespoke translation engine on Shopify's native API that replaces Translate & Adapt and Langify. Tell us how your store works — we'll build the software around it.

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