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Mobility - EV Charging Rules Every Indian Company Has to Follow in 2026 (And the Software That Proves It)

October 13, 202629 min read

EV Charging Rules Every Indian Company Has to Follow in 2026 (And the Software That Proves It)

Buying chargers is the easy part. The Ministry of Power guidelines, the PM E-DRIVE subsidy conditions and your state building code all end in the same place: somebody has to produce data, invoices and reports on demand. Here is what is actually written down as of October 2026, which clauses are mandatory and which are only advised, and exactly which of them turn into software your company has to own. We already run that software in production, so there is a live demo at the end of it rather than a sales pitch.

Guides - Nobody Has a Backup of Your Website: How to Check Today (2026)

October 11, 202613 min read

Nobody Has a Backup of Your Website: How to Check Today (2026)

Most Indian business owners find out there was no backup on the day they need one. By then the site is gone, the developer is unreachable, and the quote to rebuild it is higher than what the site cost in the first place. Here is the ten-minute check that tells you whether a copy of your website exists, who holds it, and what it costs to put a real backup in place.

SEO - Your Website Is Not Showing on Google: How to Find Out Why (2026)

October 10, 202613 min read

Your Website Is Not Showing on Google: How to Find Out Why (2026)

You paid for a website, you search your own business name, and nothing comes up. Here is the ten-minute diagnosis that tells you whether Google has never seen your site, has seen it and refused it, or has it indexed and simply ranks it below everyone else. Three different problems, three different fixes, and only one of them costs money.

Guides - Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The 5-Minute Phone Test (2026)

October 8, 202612 min read

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The 5-Minute Phone Test (2026)

Most visitors to a small business website in India arrive on a phone, and Google now reads only the phone version. Here is a five-minute test you can do yourself, the eight mistakes we see most, what a fix costs in 2026, and the exact message to send your developer.

Business - Your Website Was Down and Nobody Told You: The ₹0 Fix (2026)

October 7, 20269 min read

Your Website Was Down and Nobody Told You: The ₹0 Fix (2026)

Most small business websites in India go down a few times a year and the owner finds out from a customer. Free uptime monitoring takes ten minutes to set up. Here is how, and what downtime really costs.

Business - Business Email ID in India: Cost and Setup Guide (2026)

October 6, 202610 min read

Business Email ID in India: Cost and Setup Guide (2026)

A business email ID on your own domain starts at ₹59 a user per month in India. 2026 prices, setup steps, and the DNS records that keep you out of spam.

Guides - Who Owns Your Website? The 10-Minute Check (2026)

October 5, 202611 min read

Who Owns Your Website? The 10-Minute Check (2026)

Your domain, hosting, admin login and Google accounts should all be in your own name. How to check in ten minutes, and what to do if they aren't.

Pricing - GST on Website Development in India: What You Pay (2026)

October 4, 202613 min read

GST on Website Development in India: What You Pay (2026)

What you really pay in GST on a website in India in 2026: the 18 percent rule, when you get it back, how TDS fits in, what a valid invoice needs.

Pricing - Website Renewal Charges: What You Should Pay Yearly (2026)

October 2, 202610 min read

Website Renewal Charges: What You Should Pay Yearly (2026)

What each line of a yearly website renewal bill in India should cost in 2026: domain, hosting, SSL, email, maintenance, and how to check yours.

Guides - Website Says "Not Secure" in Chrome? How to Fix It (2026)

September 29, 202610 min read

Website Says "Not Secure" in Chrome? How to Fix It (2026)

Why Chrome marks a small business site "Not secure", the four causes we keep finding across India, and the fixes, most of them free and under an hour.

Guides - Website Development Quotation: Format and Sample (2026)

September 28, 202610 min read

Website Development Quotation: Format and Sample (2026)

What a website development quotation in India should contain, a sample format you can copy, fair 2026 prices, and how to compare three quotes.

Guides - DLT Template Rejected? Fixes and Samples That Pass (2026)

September 27, 202611 min read

DLT Template Rejected? Fixes and Samples That Pass (2026)

Why DLT SMS templates get rejected or fail with "template not found" in 2026, the pre-tagging rules behind it, and sample templates that get approved.

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Pricing - AI Chatbot Development Cost in India (2026): Build and Run

September 25, 202611 min read

AI Chatbot Development Cost in India (2026): Build and Run

What an AI chatbot costs to build and run in India in 2026: our INR prices, the monthly model bill worked out, and why enterprise quotes start at ₹6 lakh.

Mobility - Unified Bharat e-Charge (UBC), Explained for EV Operators

September 25, 202612 min read

Unified Bharat e-Charge (UBC), Explained for EV Operators

UBC puts EV charging inside BHIM over the Beckn protocol. What it is, how it sits next to OCPP and OCPI, and what operators' software has to get right.

Technology - What to Send a QA Team, and What You Should Get Back

September 19, 20266 min read

What to Send a QA Team, and What You Should Get Back

Most manual testing engagements go wrong in the brief, not the testing. What a QA team actually needs from you, what a bug report has to contain to be actionable, and how to tell a good one from a list of screenshots.

Backend - The javax to jakarta Break: Why Your Old Java App Is Stuck, and What It Costs to Move

September 19, 202610 min read

The javax to jakarta Break: Why Your Old Java App Is Stuck, and What It Costs to Move

One package rename in 2020 split the Java ecosystem in two, and it is the reason most legacy Java applications cannot be upgraded a version at a time. What the break is, where your app sits, and the four honest ways forward.

Mobility - OCPP 1.6-J Source Code: Five Open-Source Codebases Worth Reading Before You Write a CSMS

September 19, 20268 min read

OCPP 1.6-J Source Code: Five Open-Source Codebases Worth Reading Before You Write a CSMS

Three open-source central systems and two protocol libraries, with licences and OCPP versions checked against the repositories, the half of the product none of them contain for India, and the trade we made on PlugEV.

Backend - .NET Does Not Need Windows Any More: What It Actually Costs to Run in 2026

September 19, 20265 min read

.NET Does Not Need Windows Any More: What It Actually Costs to Run in 2026

The licensing objection to .NET is a decade out of date, and it still decides stacks. What .NET actually costs to host in India now, where the real costs sit, and when it is still the wrong pick.

Backend - Inheriting a Laravel App: The Seven Things We Open on Day One

September 18, 202619 min read

Inheriting a Laravel App: The Seven Things We Open on Day One

The exact sequence we run on the first day with a Laravel codebase somebody else wrote: what to secure before you read a line of code, the commands we run and the output we hope for, and the findings that make us quote a rebuild instead of a takeover.

Mobility - OCPP 1.6-J by Example: The Eight Messages a CSMS Has to Get Right, With Real Payloads

September 16, 202613 min read

OCPP 1.6-J by Example: The Eight Messages a CSMS Has to Get Right, With Real Payloads

The exact JSON a charger sends and a CSMS must answer, message by message, with the fields that matter for billing and the mistakes we made implementing each one on PlugEV.

Mobility - EV Charging Tariffs in India: Per kWh, Per Minute, Idle Fees and the Maths Behind the Bill

September 12, 202613 min read

EV Charging Tariffs in India: Per kWh, Per Minute, Idle Fees and the Maths Behind the Bill

How a charge point operator in India should price a session, what the bill is actually computed from, why offline sessions are where billing breaks, and how the money splits with the site host.

Dark navy cover reading Laravel versus Node.js, with the line hiring depth decides this, not benchmarks.

September 5, 20269 min read

Laravel vs Node.js in India 2026: Which Backend to Build On

Laravel is the safer default for most Indian SMBs in 2026, and Node.js wins on realtime. The deciding factor is hiring depth in India, not benchmarks.

Dark navy cover reading SEO versus GEO, with the line mostly good SEO plus structure and citability.

September 5, 20269 min read

SEO vs GEO: What Changes When AI Answers the Question

GEO is mostly good SEO plus structure and citability. What genuinely changes when an AI answers the question, and why nobody can guarantee citations.

Dark navy cover reading PWA versus Native app, with the line most businesses asking for an app need a faster site.

September 5, 20269 min read

PWA vs Native App in India 2026: Do You Need the App Store?

Most Indian SMBs asking for an app need a fast mobile site first. The rule for when a PWA is enough, and when native genuinely earns its cost.

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