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Putti

Your local developers building the best of tech for partners.

With Putti you can create and manage your own mobile responsive website and app all in the same place. Quick, easy to use and packed full of features, let Putti help you reach and engage your audience in a way you never thought possible.

03/11/2026

AI is not perfect. And the problem is it does not even know when it is wrong.

John on where AI actually earns its keep right now: doing the pre-work, with a human still the arbiter of what is good. One minute from Launch Time Episode 12 that will save you from the expensive version of this lesson.

The full conversation is here: https://youtu.be/wQOyb80-Vx0

01/11/2026

Everyone asks which AI tool. Almost nobody asks the 5 questions that actually decide whether AI pays off.

We run these before pointing AI at anything: where does the same hour disappear every week, what happens when it is wrong, where does the data already live, can we pilot it in one corner, and who owns the result.

The full set is in the carousel. Save it for your next AI conversation, and if you want a straight answer on where AI fits your business, let's chat.

29/10/2026

Meet Moon. He's our CTO, and he's the one who decides how your project actually gets built.

Moon doesn't look like the developer people have in their heads, and he's definitely not the businessman type. He has one rule and he's had it as long as we've known him: whatever the situation, build the best thing you can with what you've got. That's it. He treats every project like it's his own, which sounds nice until you realise it means he'll push back on a shortcut even when the shortcut would've made us more money.

We've stopped arguing with him about that. The clients who've been with us for years are the reason why. They're still here because of how he works, not in spite of it.

Funny thing about working with Moon for a while: you start thinking like him. Nobody plans it. It just happens, and honestly it's one of the better things about this place.

Getting someone to trust you is hard. Keeping that trust for years is harder. Moon just does it, project after project, without making a thing of it.

If you've worked with him, you'll know what we mean. Either way, say hi below.

28/10/2026

AI coding tools are great at getting an idea working fast. The gap we keep seeing is between a working demo and software you can safely put in front of customers.

The prototype usually skips the same four things: security and data handling, architecture that can take real use, tests beyond the happy path, and production infrastructure. None of them show up in a demo. All of them show up in week one.

The fix is not a rebuild by default. Audit what exists, fix security and data first, then add the engineering rigour and ship on proper infrastructure. The full guide is here: https://www.puttiapps.com/guides/vibe-coded-app-to-production/

If you are taking a vibe-coded app toward real users, we will tell you honestly what it needs. Let's chat.

21/10/2026

If your website runs PHP, patch it today. Not this week. Today.

Two critical flaws in PHP went public yesterday. Both allow remote code ex*****on with no password. Both score 9.2 on CVSS. Government sites in France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia were pulled offline as a precaution, and the NSA has told organisations to patch now or take vulnerable systems down.

Our team has been on this since the advisory dropped. We're working through every client site and system we look after, checking PHP versions, applying the patched releases and locking down the ones that can't be upgraded on the spot. If you're a Putti client, you'll hear from us directly.

Why this matters to NZ businesses: PHP sits under WordPress, Laravel, Magento, Drupal and a huge share of custom-built sites and portals. Wiz estimates it runs about 70% of the world's websites. If you don't know what your site runs on, there's a fair chance it's this.

What to do right now:

1. Update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35. The fix is out.
2. On PHP 8.1 or older? The PHP project isn't shipping a fix. You need a vendor backport or an upgrade, and that's a bigger job.
3. Can't patch today? Set session.upload_progress.enabled=0 and restart every worker. It blocks part of the attack path, not all of it.

If your site is on PHP and you're not sure where you stand, or the person who built it has gone quiet, get in touch today. We'll tell you straight what's exposed and what it takes to fix it.

Sources: php.net security advisory (21 Oct), NZ Herald / AFP (22 Oct).

21/10/2026

Inheriting a stalled project is not just picking up where someone left off. It is working out what they actually left, and why it stopped.

From our Launch Time series, a bit on what that really looks like. Full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pjYha8yEOA

If a build of yours has gone quiet, the earlier you look, the more there is to save.

18/10/2026

We take over troubled software projects for a living, and the story usually starts the same way. The developer stops replying.

Not all at once. The messages just get slower, then vague, then rare, enough contact to keep you waiting instead of worrying. By the time someone calls us, they often cannot see inside their own project. No access to the repo, no clear picture of what is done, a lot of percent complete and very few features you can actually tap.

The part people do not expect is how much is usually salvageable. Taking over a stalled build is half engineering and half archaeology, but more survives than you fear, especially if you ask early. Waiting is the expensive part.

If yours has gone quiet, a second opinion costs you nothing. Coffee's on us.

15/10/2026

Two companies became one team, and somehow the coffee order got more complicated, not less. Worth it.

13/10/2026

Here is a quiet question worth asking before you sign anything. If you parted ways with your developer tomorrow, who owns the code?

Most founders assume the answer is them. A surprising number find out it is not, and they find out on the worst possible day, the day they want to leave. Paying for the work and owning the repo it lives in are not the same thing.

Hydraulink's applications manager, Marina Soares, tells the other half of the story. They moved to us after two years with a previous vendor, with thin documentation and a lot of complexity. Her words: we never had to talk to the previous vendor to collect information. One minute, worth watching.

Ask us who owns the code. Ask us anything. DM us.

11/10/2026

We keep noticing the same pattern in conversations with NZ businesses. The software that felt like a bargain when the team was small has quietly become one of the biggest lines on the tech budget.

The licence cost is only half of it. The other half is harder to see. Somewhere along the way you started shaping the business around the tool. An extra export here, a spreadsheet gluing two systems together there. Nobody decided that, it just accumulated.

None of this means build everything. If the job is generic, buying is still the right call. But when the tool no longer fits the way you actually work, and the workarounds have their own workarounds, it is worth doing the maths.

We put the honest version in this carousel. If you are weighing it up, we will give you a straight answer, even when it is keep buying. Let's chat.

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