Vidra Labs

We keep your software running.

Fixed-price rescue and maintenance for Android apps, dashboards and data pipelines. Built and maintained by a senior software engineer — no agency markup, no hourly surprises, no meetings you don't need.

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FLAGSHIP SERVICE

Google Play Compliance Rescue

Google raises its minimum Android target version every August. Apps that fall behind are hidden from new users on current phones and blocked from publishing updates — silently. We bring your existing app back to full compliance, publish it under your own developer account, and hand you before/after proof.

Standard

€490

fixed, ~1 week

Java/Kotlin app, buildable source provided. Target-SDK update, UI & permission fixes, full test pass, republish + proof.

Plus

€890

fixed, 1–2 weeks

Hybrid apps (Flutter / React Native) or light dependency surgery on aging libraries.

Annual Upkeep

€190/yr

existing clients

Every August the bar rises again. We re-audit, update and republish before the deadline — you never think about it.

How it works

Free 2-minute compliance report. Reply to our email or write to us — we audit your app's exact status against Google's current requirements. No call, no commitment.

Fixed quote, fixed scope. If the source code and signing access check out, you get one price and one deadline. 50% upfront, 50% on publish.

Published & proven. The update ships under your own Google Play account — you keep code, keys and ownership of everything. We hand over before/after compliance proof.

More rescues — fixed price, done in under a week

Same recipe as the flagship: a problem we can prove before you pay anything, one price, one deadline, and before/after evidence when we're done.

Analytics Rescue

€290

fixed, 2–3 days

Still running the old UA- Google Analytics tag? It stopped collecting on July 1, 2023, and Google later deleted the history permanently — many sites have been flying blind ever since. We install GA4 properly, wire up your real conversions, and hand you a verified live report.

Email Deliverability Rescue

€240

fixed, 1–2 days

Gmail and Yahoo tightened sender rules in 2024, and Microsoft now rejects non-compliant mail outright. If your domain is missing SPF, DKIM or DMARC, your quotes and invoices quietly land in spam. We configure all three correctly, prove it with a 10/10 deliverability score, and set up monitoring.

Dashboard & Data Rescue

from €490

fixed quote, ~1 week

The dashboard nobody dares touch since the person who built it left. Broken Power BI / Looker Studio reports, dead data pipelines, numbers that stopped matching reality. A decade of production BI experience — repaired or rebuilt, fixed price after a free look.

Custom Reporting & Business Insights

custom

quoted after a free look at your data

You're sitting on data — orders, bookings, app events, logs — but nobody turns it into answers. We connect to your database, map what's actually being recorded, and build the recurring reports you wish you had: sales trends, customer behaviour, what's quietly losing you money. Scope depends on your data, so the quote is custom — the first look is free.

Also under the roof: ongoing Android app maintenance and scripting away your team's boring manual work — ask for a quote.

Don't take our word for it

Everything we flag is independently verifiable in about a minute — we'd rather you check than trust:

Read Google's own policy. The target-API requirement and what happens to non-compliant apps is published by Google here: Target API level requirements.

Check your own app. Open your app's Google Play page and look at About this app → App info → Updated on. If the last update is older than ~18 months, your app is at or past the visibility cliff.

Try it on a new phone. Search for your app from a recent Android device you've never installed it on. If it doesn't appear — that's the problem we fix.

Check your site and your email in 60 seconds. Press Ctrl+U on your homepage and search for UA- — if it's there with no G- tag, your analytics has been dead since mid-2023. Then look up your domain on any free DMARC checker — if the record is missing, mailbox providers treat your email as suspect.

Honest answers

Do we keep ownership of the app?: Completely. Work happens under your Google Play developer account; code, keystore and listing stay yours. We never hold your assets.
What if we lost the source code?: The fixed price requires buildable source. If it's lost, we'll tell you honestly what a rebuild would involve — no pressure either way.
Why is it so much cheaper than an agency?: No office, no account managers, no markup — one senior engineer with a very specific specialty and a repeatable process.
Who are you?: Vidra Labs is run by a senior software engineer with a decade of production experience in data-heavy industries. Vidra is Serbian for otter — small, fast, fixes things with its hands.