News, tutorials, and updates from the Huxly team.

Education apps for children sit under heavy regulation, and the rules just tightened, COPPA's revised rule became fully mandatory in April 2026. COPPA and FERPA aren't the same law, and most school-facing tools need to satisfy both.
5 min readDead zones are the normal operating environment for a delivery route, not an edge case, which makes offline reliability the real engineering problem. What offline failures cost, and the data volume most teams don't plan for.
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A booking app lives or dies on calendar sync that never double-books. The no-show math that decides which features to build first, and why most 2026 builds use an existing scheduling API instead of writing conflict logic from scratch.
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Mobile commerce is most of US e-commerce now, so the app question is settled. What actually matters: physical goods skip Apple and Google's IAP cut entirely, and picking the right commerce platform underneath.
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Commission math and POS integration decide whether a restaurant app is worth building, not the interface. When owning your own ordering channel beats marketplace commission.
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MLS access, display rules, and fair housing compliance determine whether a real estate app works, not the screens or the map view. Why RETS is dead, and where IDX and VOW rules actually diverge.
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Not every health app needs HIPAA compliance, the trigger is handling PHI for a covered entity, not just being health-related. The BAA requirement, which backends are actually eligible, and what compliance really costs.
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Fintech is the one app category where the interface is the easy part. The compliance foundation, KYC, AML, PCI DSS, and BaaS partnerships, is what actually determines cost, timeline, and whether the app can legally operate.
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