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Notes from the studio.

Honest pricing breakdowns, the engineering playbook behind Dokya, and what we've learned shipping software for SMEs across Delhi NCR and India.

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The Real Cost of a 3-Year-Old WordPress Site You Haven't Touched

The sticker price was fine three years ago. Nobody ever budgets for what accumulates underneath a site that just keeps running — until the rebuild bill arrives all at once.

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What Building Arjun Pathshala in Days Taught Us About Our Own Stack

A second brand, a different language, a completely different visual identity — shipped without a new deployment, a new codebase, or a single new piece of infrastructure. Here's what actually made that possible.

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The DPDP Act Is Coming for Your Website — Here's What Actually Changes

The law doesn't exempt you for being small. Here's the actual timeline, what a compliant consent flow looks like, and why 'we'll deal with it later' is a worse bet than it looks right now.

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Why Ekya Tech Is a Holding Company, Not Just an Agency

A services agency's revenue resets to zero every month. Here's the actual mechanism behind building products alongside client work, not just the pitch-deck version of "we diversified."

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We Self-Host Nothing: Why Every Client Site Runs on Vercel

No servers to patch, no SSH keys to rotate, no 2am pages for a disk that filled up. Here's the actual reasoning, not just "it's easier."

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React Native vs Flutter for Indian Startups in 2026

Both are legitimate choices. For an Indian startup specifically, the decision usually comes down to two things that have nothing to do with which framework is technically 'better': your hiring pool, and whether you already have a web team.

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API Security Audit: What We Actually Test For

Not a generic checklist — the specific categories from the OWASP API Security Top 10 that break real applications, and why most of them need a human, not a scanner.

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Dokya dashboard showing today's appointments, revenue, patient count and WhatsApp activity
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Why Indian Clinics Are Losing 30-40% of Follow-Up Patients (and What We Built to Fix It)

The visit went fine. The follow-up never happened. Here's why that gap is a scheduling problem, not a care problem — and why WhatsApp closes it better than a phone call ever did.

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Your WordPress SEO Plugin Isn't Doing What You Think It's Doing

A green checkmark in Yoast or RankMath means your meta title is the right length. It says nothing about the technical foundation Google has actually been ranking on since 2021.

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The 6 Most Common Vulnerabilities We Actually Find in Indian SME Web Apps

Not a generic OWASP checklist — the specific patterns that show up over and over in fast-shipped SME web apps, and the one-line fix for each.

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What a Penetration Test Actually Costs in India (and Why the ₹15,000 Ones Are Useless)

The price gap between pentest quotes isn't padding — it's the difference between a relabeled vulnerability scan and someone actually trying to break into your application. Here's what each band buys you.

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We Moved ekyatech.com Off WordPress. Here's What Actually Changed.

Not a client project — our own site. Real DNS records, real IPs, real response times, and the one surprise we found halfway through that made the whole migration easier.

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Website Development Cost in India in 2026: A Transparent Guide for SMEs

What a website actually costs in India in 2026 — broken down by site type, stack, and agency size, so you can budget honestly and avoid the ₹15,000 trap.

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Mobile App Development Cost in India in 2026: What ₹5 Lakh Actually Buys You

Realistic 2026 pricing for mobile app development in India — MVP vs full product, React Native vs native, plus the hidden costs nobody quotes upfront.

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Next.js vs WordPress for Indian SMEs in 2026: A Plain-English Comparison

Why we recommend Next.js over WordPress for SME marketing sites in India in 2026 — speed, SEO, security, and the long-term cost picture.

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