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GetAProgrammer is a premier IT Services provider with clients across the world and with our core client base in Sydney, Australia.

02/11/2026

AUD 141,300.

That is the average self-reported cost of a cybercrime for a medium-sized Australian business, according to the Australian Signals Directorate's new Annual Cyber Threat Report. It is up 45% from last year.

The report, released last week, names AI as the defining force in the threat landscape. Attackers are using it to find weak spots faster and at a scale we have not seen before.

And where do they find them? Very often, in old systems.

The report calls out legacy technology as one of the biggest openings. One example: attackers successfully exploited a flaw first identified back in 2008.

Here is the uncomfortable part. AI does not make old software weaker. It makes old software easier to find.

So the most useful thing you can do this week is not buy a new tool. It is to make a list:
📋 Every system your business relies on
🕰 Which ones no longer get security updates
🌐 Which of those are reachable from the internet

That list is where your real risk lives.

What is the oldest piece of software your business still relies on? Just the year is fine, no judgement 👇

29/10/2026

Quick maths for your business.

If five people in your team each spend one hour a day on manual admin, that adds up to around 1,200 hours a year.

That is roughly seven months of a full-time role, spent on tasks nobody was hired to do.

Here is where those hours usually go:
⏳ Reading and sorting every customer email by hand
⏳ Retyping invoice and form details into another system
⏳ Copying data between spreadsheets, CRMs and accounting tools
⏳ Juggling rosters and bookings across shared calendars

AI does not need to replace anyone to fix this. It simply needs to take the repetitive steps off your team’s plate.

That is the work we focus on at GetAProgrammer. We build custom AI-powered integrations for Australian businesses that plug into the systems your team already uses, so nothing about their day gets harder.

Saving time does not mean fewer people.

It means your people finally get to do the work you hired them for.

👇 If your team got five hours back every week, where would you spend them?

28/10/2026

Before you post that next job ad, look closely at what the new person would actually do.

For most growing Australian businesses, the honest answer is uncomfortable: chasing forms, copying data between systems, compiling weekly reports and nudging colleagues for approvals.

That is not a hiring problem. It is a systems problem.

A Melbourne service company with five staff reached this exact point earlier this year. Every role felt stretched, and a sixth hire looked like the only way out. Instead, they asked a simpler question: which tasks should no person be doing at all?

Here is what they handed over to software:

🔁 Client onboarding: Forms, confirmations and next steps now go out the moment a new client signs.

📊 Reporting: Live dashboards replaced the Friday afternoon spreadsheet scramble.

✅ Approvals: Requests route straight to the right person, with reminders built in.

💬 Client communication: One shared view replaced the hunt through inboxes and chat threads.

Ninety days later, the same five people deliver the output of a team three times their size. Nobody works longer hours. The hire they nearly made never needed to happen.

A new employee adds cost every month. A well-built system keeps paying you back.

If your team feels stretched, start by mapping the work, not the org chart.

27/10/2026

Most software projects do not fail at launch.

They fail in the first meeting, when nobody asks the right questions.

If you are hiring a development partner, here are three questions worth asking before you sign anything:

🔍 “How do you scope a project that sounds simple?”
A strong partner will not quote on a one-line brief. They will want to map your daily operations first, because “simple” requests often hide complex workflows.

🔍 “What would you leave out of version one?”
Good developers do not try to impress you with features. They protect usability and help you launch what your team will actually use.

🔍 “How will you update me when things go wrong?”
Listen for business language, not jargon. You need clear answers to three things:
→ What is happening?
→ What is delayed?
→ What does it mean for revenue, costs or customers?

We know these questions matter because we learned each answer the hard way at GetAProgrammer. Underestimated scope, features nobody needed, updates full of developer speak. Every one of those lessons now shapes how we run projects for Australian clients.

The right partner will welcome these questions.
The wrong one will rush past them.

What question do you always ask before hiring a technology partner?

Share it in the comments.

26/10/2026

How many spreadsheets does it take to keep your business application running?

If the answer is more than one, you are probably paying a workaround tax.

Off-the-shelf tools are brilliant, and most Australian businesses should start there. But every tool has limits, and growing businesses eventually reach them.

4 signs you have outgrown off-the-shelf software:
🔁 Your team enters the same data into two or more systems
🧩 You pay for three tools to do one job, and they still do not talk to each other
⏳ Key workflows depend on manual steps that slow down as you grow
🏆 The process that sets you apart is the one your software handles worst

If two or more sound familiar, the question is no longer “build or buy?” It is “what is staying put really costing us?”

Custom software does not mean rebuilding everything. Often the smartest move is a focused build: one integration, one client portal, or one workflow that removes the friction for good.

As you plan your 2027 budget, put a number on your workarounds. Then compare it with the cost of fixing them properly.

That is the conversation we have with Australian businesses every week at GetAProgrammer. 👇

20/10/2026

Every business has one. Nobody talks about it.

The shared password spreadsheet.

It usually lives on the shared drive with a name like "logins_FINAL_v3." Five people use the same account for the supplier portal. And someone who left last year can probably still log in to at least one system.

This does not happen because people are careless.

It happens because the systems never made the right way easy. If adding a user costs extra, takes an admin or needs a phone call to the vendor, people share. If removing access means logging in to six places, someone forgets one.

Good software fixes this by design:
👤 Every person gets their own login
🔐 Permissions match the job, not the convenience
🚪 One offboarding step switches everything off at once

Access is one of the cheapest security wins available, and it is mostly a software design decision.

When someone leaves your business, how long until you switch off every one of their logins? Hours, days or "we would have to check"?

19/10/2026

"It works. Please do not touch it."

That was the unofficial policy for one client's booking system.

The platform ran on a framework that no longer received security updates. Customers could still book, so on the surface everything was fine. Underneath, every month made it harder to defend and harder to explain on the cyber insurance questionnaire.

A full rebuild felt risky. So we did not do one big switch.

We rebuilt it in stages on a supported stack, moving one module at a time. Bookings first, then payments, then reporting. Customers never saw a day of downtime.

The result:
✅ Security updates are now routine, not scary
✅ Monitoring flags problems before customers notice
✅ The insurance questionnaire takes minutes, not a week of guessing

The biggest change was not technical. The team stopped working around a system they feared.

Is there a system in your business that "works fine" but nobody wants to touch?

18/10/2026

October is Cyber Security Awareness Month, so here is an uncomfortable question.

Who in your business is responsible for updating each system you run?

Not the laptops. The software. The booking app built five years ago. The customer portal. The plugin holding your website together. The little script that still processes orders every night.

For most growing businesses, the honest answer is "nobody, really."

That is where most of the risk lives. Not in movie-style hacking, but in ordinary things left alone too long: unpatched code, shared logins and old libraries with known holes.

Security is not something you buy once. It is maintenance you schedule.

This month, we are looking at the quiet risks inside the software Australian businesses depend on, and how to fix them without panic or a massive budget.

Step one is simple: list every system you rely on and write one name next to each.

Could you fill in every name today? 👇

15/10/2026

A founder told us last month that his new AI chatbot was ""broken."" 🤖

It was quoting customers the wrong prices. Confidently. Every single time.

We looked under the hood, and the AI was working perfectly. The problem was what it was reading. Product prices lived in three different spreadsheets, and two of them had not been updated since last year.

The chatbot was not broken. It was simply repeating the mess it had been given, at speed. 📉

This happens far more often than people admit. Businesses rush to add AI, then blame the tool when results go sideways. The real issue usually sits one layer below.

So before you spend a dollar on AI, ask your team:

🗂️ Where does our most important data actually live?
🔍 When was it last checked for errors and duplicates?
🤝 Do all our systems agree on the same numbers?

If those questions make the room go quiet, you have found your starting point. Fix the data first, and AI becomes a genuine advantage instead of an expensive amplifier of old mistakes.

Smart AI starts with honest data. 🧱

Want the questions we use to assess AI readiness? Comment ""READY"" and we will send them over. 👇

14/10/2026

🧩 Picture this. Sprint three, demo day. A founder clicks through the new booking screen, pauses, and says, ""Actually, our customers will want to do this on their phone first.""

Six months into a traditional build, that sentence could cost weeks of rework.

At sprint three, it costs one conversation.

That is the real reason we demo working software every two weeks. Not to show progress. To catch the moment an idea meets reality, while change is still quick and affordable.

Ideas always look different once you can touch them. A workflow that made sense on paper feels clunky in practice. A feature everyone wanted turns out to be one nobody uses. Regular demos turn those discoveries into small adjustments instead of expensive surprises.

The result? Software shaped by real feedback, sprint after sprint, not by assumptions made on day one.

What is one feature you would want to get your hands on first? 💭

👉 Share it below. We would love to hear it.

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