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How a 200-person railway company replaced its whiteboard and paper forms with one no-code app
An Austrian railway operations company of up to 200 people tracked its cars on a whiteboard and posted its safety forms to head office. One Glide app, built by a five-person agency, now saves about €25,000 a year on repairs and roughly 700 hours of back-office time, by the builder's figures.
- €25,000
- Saved a year on mechanic invoices
- ~700 hrs
- Back-office time saved a year, across every module
- ~3 weeks
- To the first working version of the fleet app
- €300–400
- Monthly run cost
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A one-person consulting and training business runs on one repo of markdown files that keeps its own CRM, writes its own tasks and publishes his webinars. Monthly revenue ran at 2.4 times the 2025 average, and he splits the credit between a young business growing and AI.
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A €300,000/yr business that runs on 4 human hours a week
A one-man Dutch admin business ran for five years on seven Google Forms and a spreadsheet. He rebuilt it with Claude Code without being a developer, halved his operations time, and took four weeks off while it ran without him.
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