Digital Republic

An IT company in Mostar building its own products

Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is home to Digital Republic, a software firm set up in 2019. It describes itself as blending traditional business values with software development, and its work spans websites, web apps and cross-platform mobile apps for clients. Alongside client work, the company develops its own products, including Montwork, an app that gathers information and tasks in one place and helps with logistics and field work planning.

Client platforms in equestrian, beauty and running

Several client projects show the range of the company's work. Horse Republic is a French start-up that brings equestrian riders together on one platform, listing competitions, stables to rent and a marketplace for horse gear, along with online classes for riders. The beauty sector is served by a software-as-a-service system for salons, where appointments, services, prices and statistics are kept in one place. It is built with Laravel, InertiaJS, VueJS and MySQL.

Other projects include an online coaching and mentoring platform built to a client's own specification, a WooCommerce shop for a beauty business and a news portal for running clubs and schools, built with NuxtJS, Strapi, Docker and MySQL.

Mobile apps, hosting and databases

The company writes its phone apps in React Native, so one code base serves both Android and iOS. It chooses and sets up databases to suit each project's needs, and it runs projects on cloud, serverless or dedicated servers. It says it aims for 99 per cent uptime on the infrastructure it manages.

First versions of products for founders

For founders who need to show investors that an idea has a market, the company builds a minimum viable product, meaning the first working version of the product. Projects start with an introductory meeting, where the company answers questions and sets out a detailed project timeline so the client can follow progress at any point.