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Saeedreza Abbaspour is the CEO of Refact, where he works across product, engineering, and sales. He sets the studio’s direction while staying closely involved in the work itself, from shaping product strategy and UX architecture to helping define the technical systems behind Refact’s projects. His role connects business thinking with hands-on product execution, giving him a practical view of how software should be planned, built, launched, and improved. At Refact, Saeedreza focuses on building a studio that can move quickly, solve real client problems, and turn ideas into reliable digital products.
Most companies that ask how to sell data start from the same assumption. They think the data already has a price, and the only job left is finding a buyer. The research says otherwise. MIT CISR’s work on data monetization finds that, on average, only 18% of reported returns come from selling data. Using it […]
In a 2024 Financial Cents survey of 367 accounting, bookkeeping, and tax firm owners, 65.2% named getting documents and information from clients as one of their biggest workflow problems. Before they automated, more than half said documents arrived several days after the request, and about one in five said it took weeks or months. That […]
Most agency client portals don’t fail at launch. They fail around week six, when the client who called the portal “really nice” sends the next question by email anyway. One agency operator wrote in 2026 about a portal that took about six months and roughly $100,000 to build, then sat unused for nine months. The […]
A 2025 UCL working paper, based on data bought from Patreon, found that the median creator earning only from Patreon made $55 a month in 2024. The mean was $307. That gap is the reason most lists of membership site examples mislead people. They show the creators in the long tail who made it and […]
A Shopify developer on Upwork can list a rate of $15 an hour. Clutch reports that most U.S. agencies charge $100 to $200. One merchant on Reddit paid £300 for a store, then got quotes from £1,500 to £16,000 to redo it. Every one of these figures is real Shopify development cost data, and none […]
A small business owner once asked on Reddit if $700 CAD a month was a fair price to maintain a simple WordPress site. Practitioners gave two answers. For a brochure site, $100 to $200 a month was typical, and a normal month might need about 15 minutes of work. But if the site ran memberships, […]
When Molex looked at its old supplier portal, the portal was running fine. Suppliers just weren’t using it. Only 30% of purchase orders were confirmed through it, and for more than 80% of confirmations, Molex’s own buyers were confirming orders on the suppliers’ behalf. That is the most common way vendor portal software fails. The […]
A member’s card declines on the third of the month. Someone now has to decide whether she loses access that afternoon, after a grace week, or not at all. Most teams shopping for a membership platform haven’t made that call yet, and it shapes the product more than anything on a pricing page. A membership […]
Basis spent about seven months building its software. After release, the team wrote in its January 2025 shutdown post, not one person tried it. Tract, a UK property-tech startup, raised £744,000, heard plenty of praise from design partners, and closed in March 2025 with zero revenue. Both teams knew the famous minimum viable product examples: […]
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