A guide for people about to buy or build a platform, internal system or website, or hire a vendor for tech and go-to-market. Pick your path, find your stage.

GarunaCDX Editorial

Oct 19, 2026

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Build, buy or configure: how to decide, and what goes in version 1

Most teams pick the tool before they define the problem. A short decision path, and how to scope a first release that ships.

Choosing and vetting a vendor, and what the handover should look like

Years in business are a weak signal. Habits you can inspect are a strong one. Eight checks, a handover list and a maintenance list you can hold any vendor to.

Architecture questions to ask: backend, concurrency and testing

Three questions that decide whether a platform survives a busy day: how many backends, what happens on a retry, and what was tested before launch.

Data, security and compliance: decisions to make before launch

What you collect, where it lives and how people consent and delete are design decisions. What the App Store already requires and what India's DPDP Rules reportedly require. Not legal advice.

Rollout, adoption and handover: making sure the old sheet really retires

Adoption fails when the new system is one more screen on top of old habits. Design for the daily tasks, set a retirement date and hand over everything in writing.

Tech and go-to-market together: publishing, search and one vendor or two

Marketing should publish without a developer queue, a relaunch should not delete your visibility, and the one-vendor-or-two question has an honest answer that depends on your stage.

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