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Building a prototype in Lovable, Bolt or Replit is quick. If the idea takes off, customers soon start using it with their own data. From then on the app has to do more than just work: those customers' data needs to be properly protected, and someone has to keep the app up to date.
Read morePlenty of business owners have built something good and can see what AI and tech could do, but not how to put them to work. Others are already trying things, and none of it really pays off. On 17 November 2026 a small group talks it through at StartDock on the Singel in Amsterdam. Emmo Elshof, co-founder of Backstage IT, invites business owners to this Rubicon evening.
Read moreAI is one reason open-source projects are getting far more security reports this year than in previous years. For anyone with their own software product, that means more updates someone has to apply.
Read moreThe Dutch ICT market has cooled, yet specialised talent stays hard to find and the tech sector is adopting AI faster than the rest of the economy. Five figures from the Dutch statistics office and the national labour market agency, and what they change about the developers a company needs next.
Read moreThe gap between companies experimenting with AI and the ones actually shipping it isn't a technical one. It's a structural one. Here is what separates the teams that ship from the teams that stall.
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