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Product 2026-09-11

The Health-Tech Agency Scorecard: 12 Capabilities a Diagnostics Startup Actually Buys (With Our Own Scores)

A capability-by-capability scorecard for evaluating software agencies for a diagnostics startup: 12 named capabilities, the evidence to demand for each, Jaspero's honest 0-5 score, and the four we refer out.

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Product 2026-09-10

The React Native Agency Shortlist: 11 Screening Questions, Our Own Answers, and How to Verify Each One

A founder's screening rubric for hiring a React Native agency in Europe, with Jaspero's own filled-in answers: production evidence, crash-free rates, rate bands, contract vehicles, and the projects we refuse.

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Engineering 2026-09-09

React Native in Production Across Four Engagements: Upgrade Log, Crash Rates, Store Outcomes, and the Native Modules We Wrote

Cross-project operational evidence from four production React Native apps: what broke in each upgrade, how crash-free session rates moved, what an App Store rejection actually costs, and when writing your own native module is the right call.

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Product 2026-09-08

Hiring a Dev Shop in Croatia: Osijek vs Zagreb, Our Rate Card, and When Not to Hire Us

A founder's comparison framework for Croatian software agencies, with Jaspero's actual team size, EUR rate bands, contract vehicles for UK, EU and US clients, and an explicit list of projects we tell people to take elsewhere.

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Product 2026-09-07

The First 90 Days of a Fractional CTO: A Week-by-Week Log From Three Real Engagements

What a fractional CTO actually does in the first 90 days, logged week by week across three engagements: access inventory, system map, risk register, killed vendor renewals, and the first shipped change. Including what we deliberately did not do.

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Engineering 2026-09-07

Building Health-Tech in Croatia for a UK Diagnostics Company: Data Residency, Contracts, Time Zones, and Four Things We Got Wrong

How an Osijek-based engineering team delivers regulated health-tech for a UK/EU diagnostics business: where personal and sample data lives, the DPA clauses that changed the architecture, controller versus processor duties, cross-jurisdiction contracting, and four mistakes we made.

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