Low-code and no-code are perfect for quickly prototyping and validating an idea. But as your application becomes strategic, technical ceilings, license costs and vendor dependency become a risk. Hexit takes over and turns your prototype into a robust application that you fully control.
When low-code / no-code hits its limits
These platforms are ideal at the start, but several signals indicate it's time to move to a custom solution:
- Spiraling costs: per-user or usage-based licenses that become prohibitive as you grow.
- Vendor lock-in: your data and business logic are trapped inside a platform you don't control.
- Technical ceiling: performance, complex integrations or specific business rules that are impossible to implement.
- Security and compliance: GDPR requirements, sovereign hosting or audits that are hard to satisfy.
WinDev, WebDev and WinDev Mobile applications
PC SOFT's licensing change — the end of perpetual physical-key licenses, the move to subscription — puts many WinDev applications in the same position: a tool that works, but a recurring cost and a single-vendor dependency for every future change. The question applies to WinDev, WebDev and WinDev Mobile alike.
- Audit of the existing application: windows, WLanguage code, reports, HFSQL analysis
- HFSQL data moved to the database engine of your choice, history included
- Progressive rewrite, module by module, with both applications running side by side during the transition
- Existing integrations preserved (Sage 100, Sage X3, Batigest and your other tools)
We always start by costing both scenarios: what staying on subscription costs over three to five years, and what the rewrite costs. If staying is the more sensible call, we say so.
Our takeover approach
We secure the transition to avoid any service disruption or data loss:
- Audit of the existing application: features, data, integrations
- Mapping and recovery of your data and business logic
- Progressive rewrite on a modern, documented stack
- Data migration, testing and controlled cutover
A custom application you keep the keys to
We rewrite your application with proven technologies (Angular, Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL…), with no black box: the code is yours, documented, tested and hostable wherever you want.
A French company based in the Hauts-de-France region, we can also use this takeover to integrate artificial intelligence and optimize your workflows, so the new version goes far beyond the old one.