MakeProps blog
The MakeProps blog on custom software
Our technical convictions, explained simply.
We share choices that often come back in our projects. Using Neo4j when business relationships matter, using our CII approval when a project truly innovates and modelling seriously before writing code.
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Three topics to frame a software project better.
Architecture, funding and method. Short explanations of the decisions that make custom software clearer, easier to fund and built to last.
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Why we use Neo4j for custom business software
Graph-based projects are still rare. In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, Neo4j shows up in 2.6 % of the database environments developers reported. That rarity is exactly why the approach deserves a look when relationships become the real subject of the software.
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Our CII approval: making software innovation more accessible
Our French Innovation Tax Credit approval can help eligible software projects become easier to finance. The point is not to innovate on paper, but to build a useful product with clear scope and real technical uncertainty.
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Data modelling before you build software
Before we draw a single screen, we work out the objects of your business, their rules, their states and the words everyone uses. That modelling turns a vague idea into a project we can build and commit to at a fixed price.
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A technical topic needs proper scoping?
We can turn an idea, a constraint or a business intuition into a clear, estimated and buildable software project.