Digital Heroes vs Net Solutions: An Honest Comparison | Digital Heroes
Net Solutions fits mid-market companies modernizing an existing commerce or data platform, while Digital Heroes fits buyers who want one defined build at a published price. Net Solutions states 25 years of delivery and groups its work into five engineering practices. Digital Heroes publishes a range of roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars and signs the specification before any code is written.
The short answer
Net Solutions is built for mid-market companies that already run a platform and need it modernized, extended or rebuilt around their data, and Digital Heroes is built for founders, small teams and established operators who want one defined piece of software delivered against a signed specification at a price they can read before booking a call. Net Solutions groups its work into five practices: data and AI engineering, commerce engineering, application modernization, product and platform engineering, and experience design. Digital Heroes sells fixed scope, roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars depending on what is in it. If you are inheriting fifteen years of legacy commerce and the risk sits in the migration, the first firm is the natural conversation. If you are commissioning a first or second version and you want the scope and the number settled up front, the second one is.
How this comparison was made, and who wrote it
Digital Heroes wrote this page, and Digital Heroes is one of the two companies in it. That is a conflict of interest, and declaring it is better than pretending it away. The way we handle it is to keep this page to things you can confirm yourself in about ten minutes, and to tell you exactly where to look for each one. If a row here cannot be checked from a browser, it should not be here.
Everything on this page about Net Solutions comes from netsolutions.com as it stood on 29 August 2026: the homepage, the About page, the Services page, and the public sitemap. Nothing comes from a sales call, a private document or a third party summary. Where the company says something about itself, we report it as the company saying it and name the page it came from, because a vendor claim is a claim and not a measurement.
Here is what this method could not settle:
- Team size. Neither company publishes a headcount, so this page does not contain one and does not infer one. Ask both firms directly if bench depth matters to you.
- Ratings and review totals. This page prints no rating and no review count for another company. Those figures move week to week, they cannot be verified at the moment of writing, and being wrong about a named firm is not a small error. Net Solutions links its Clutch profile from its own homepage, so read the live numbers at the source: Net Solutions on Clutch.
- How either firm handles a hard week. No public page can tell you that. References can. Ask both companies for two clients whose projects went sideways, not two who are delighted.
- Comparable cost. Net Solutions does not publish prices, so the cost of the same scope from both firms is not knowable from outside. You have to ask them for a number and compare it with ours.
Their site is netsolutions.com. Open it next to this page and argue with anything you find wrong here.
Side by side
Only rows that can be verified from a browser are in this table. Where something is not published, the table says so rather than filling the gap with a guess.
| What | Digital Heroes | Net Solutions | How to check it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published price range | Roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars depending on scope, published on the site | Not published | Look for a pricing page on each site, then ask both for a written quote on the same brief |
| URLs in the public sitemap, counted 29 August 2026 | 14,487 on the blog, plus 877 on the main site | 772, from a sitemap index with nine child sitemaps | Open the sitemap file at the root of each domain and count the entries yourself |
| Client case studies naming a brand and linking a live site | 77, listed at blog.digitalheroesco.com/case-studies/ | Publishes a Work section; the site states Euro Car Parts was built from scratch, modernized over 17 years and scaled to 30x revenue | Open the case study index on both sites and click through to the live products |
| Stated years of delivery | Not published as a single figure | States 25 years of engineering discipline | Read the homepage and the About page |
| Stated way of working | Fixed scope, with the specification signed before any code is written | States Design Thinking plus a proprietary Agile-Scrum and DevOps method, delivered through five practices under one team | Read the About page, then read the engagement terms in any proposal you receive |
| Fiverr Pro standing | Number one ranked Top Rated Seller in Website Development, and Vetted by Fiverr Pro | Not stated on its site | Search the Fiverr Pro directory for both names |
| Independent review profile linked from the homepage | More than 2,000 reviews across public platforms | Links a Clutch profile | Open the linked profile and read the live figures there rather than trusting any page that quotes them |
| Business registrations published | A D-U-N-S number and vendor registration on the United Nations Global Marketplace | Not published | Ask each firm for its D-U-N-S number and search the UNGM supplier directory |
| Team size | Not published | Not published | Ask both firms for the named people and roles on your project, in writing |
| Delivery locations named | Delivery from India | The site describes enterprise delivery worldwide; specific office locations were not captured in the pages checked | Read the About and Contact pages on their site |
| Public audience channel | 2.5 million YouTube subscribers | Not stated on its site | Search both company names on YouTube |
What the sitemap number does and does not mean
The sitemap count is the most checkable figure on this page, which is exactly why it needs a caveat attached to it. It counts indexable URLs listed in a public sitemap on one day. It is not a count of articles, and page count is not the same as depth. A firm with 772 published URLs may simply have decided that content marketing is not how it wins work, and that is a strategy rather than a defect. Some of the best engineering teams we know publish almost nothing. What the number does tell you is how much of a firm's thinking you can read before you speak to anyone, and on that one narrow measure 14,487 against 772 is a real gap. The Digital Heroes figure is Digital Heroes reporting on Digital Heroes, counted the same day by the same method, and we would rather you counted both again than took either from us.
The team size question, asked properly
Neither company publishes a headcount, and this page will not invent one for either side. The useful move is to turn that gap into a question you put to both firms in the same words: can you staff a second workstream in parallel with the first, who specifically would be on it, and what happens to my dates if one of those people leaves. Ask for names and roles before you sign anything. A firm that answers that quickly and in writing has told you something no website can.
What Net Solutions is built for
Their published model
Net Solutions presents itself as a full stack engineering partner for mid-market leaders. Its About page sums the work up as design, build and grow, with Design Thinking at the front and what it calls a proprietary Agile-Scrum plus DevOps method behind it. Its Services page lists five capabilities held by one team, with the stated intent that a client does not have to stitch together five different vendors. That is a programme shaped model. Discovery, design, build and continuing evolution sit under one relationship, sized for organizations that already have a platform, a roadmap and internal stakeholders to satisfy.
The current positioning puts data and AI engineering first. The company describes instrumentation and pipelines that make scattered data usable, retrieval layers built over a client's own documents, and models for search, forecasting and retention, with the stated principle that the AI ships inside the product rather than arriving as a recommendation. Its commerce practice names the parts of enterprise commerce that are genuinely hard: search that understands a catalog, product data pipelines that stay current, checkout that holds up at peak, and fulfillment wired into the rest of the business. Whatever else you conclude, that list was written by people who have shipped commerce.
Where that is a real strength
Twenty five years of continuous operation is not a marketing line. It means the firm has lived through several technology cycles, and there are people inside it who have maintained production systems for longer than many agencies have existed. The Euro Car Parts case study on their site states a platform built from scratch, modernized over 17 years, and scaled to 30 times revenue. A relationship measured in that many years is a different class of evidence from a portfolio of launches. If what you are buying is a decade of stewardship rather than a delivery, that history is the most relevant thing on either company's website, including ours.
The five practice structure is a real advantage too, for the right problem. If your work genuinely spans data engineering, commerce, modernization and design at the same time, buying it from one team removes an integration problem that would otherwise land on your desk. Publishing a named method also means you can read how a firm intends to work before you hire it, and plenty of firms never put that in public.
They also invest in the rooms where their buyers actually are. The homepage advertises a five day presence at Automechanika Frankfurt in September 2026, with meetings by appointment, aimed at parts and aftermarket commerce companies. That is a firm with a defined industry focus and the commitment to sit inside it for a week.
The buyer they fit
Read together, the published model points at a specific buyer: a mid-market company with an existing revenue system, an internal technology function, a multi year roadmap and a procurement process that expects a named delivery method. That buyer is not shopping for a price on a page. They are shopping for a partner who can hold a programme, absorb changing requirements, and still be there in year four. If that description fits you, the rest of this page is less important than the conversation you should be having with them.
Choose Net Solutions if, or choose Digital Heroes if
Choose Net Solutions if
- You are modernizing a platform that has been running for a decade, and the risk lives in the migration rather than the build. That is the work their site is organized around, and in that situation you will probably be better served there than with us.
- You want data engineering, commerce, modernization and experience design held by one team under one contract. We do not present five practices under one roof. They do.
- Your procurement process needs a vendor with a documented delivery method and a 25 year operating history before it will sign.
- You sell automotive parts or work in aftermarket commerce, where they are visibly investing time and money right now.
- Your programme runs for years, spans several internal stakeholders, and needs a partner sized for governance rather than a single fixed scope build.
- You want a firm whose independent profile is linked from its own homepage so you can read the current numbers without being handed them.
Choose Digital Heroes if
- You want the price before the call. Ours is published: roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars depending on scope.
- You want the scope fixed and the specification signed before anyone writes code, so the number at the end matches the number at the start.
- You want to inspect the work rather than read about it. There are 77 case studies, each naming a real brand and linking the live site, which you can open in a browser right now.
- You are commissioning a first or second version, a website, or a Shopify build, and a multi practice programme engagement is more governance than the job needs.
- You want a public track record you can audit: number one ranked Top Rated Seller in Website Development on Fiverr, Vetted by Fiverr Pro, more than 2,000 reviews across public platforms, and 2.5 million YouTube subscribers.
- Your finance or compliance team needs a D-U-N-S number and a United Nations Global Marketplace vendor registration on file.
- You want to read a firm's thinking at length before you contact it. There are 14,487 URLs in the blog sitemap, counted on 29 August 2026, and you are reading one of them.
Both lists are honest. If your situation appears in the first one, take it seriously, because the wrong fit costs more than the wrong price. If it appears in the second, the next step is a specification, not a discovery phase.
The evidence behind this guide
Independent findings on why this investment pays off. Every link goes to the primary source.
- Median SaaS spend reached $9,455 per employee, and organizations leave an average of 36% of their SaaS licenses unused. Source: Zylo (2026) →
- McKinsey found that tech debt can amount to 20-40% of the value of a company's entire technology estate before depreciation, and CIOs report that 10-20% of the budget for new products is diverted to resolving tech-debt issues. Source: McKinsey & Company (2020) →
- Bersin by Deloitte research found organizations that use HR technology and employee-centric design to build a flexible, empowering workplace are more than 5 times more effective at improving employee engagement and retention than their peers, and 2.5 times more likely to reach 'high-impact' status by leveraging HR for digital transformation. Source: Bersin by Deloitte (2017) →
- 73% of surveyed businesses now use a headless architecture (up nearly 40% since 2019), and 98% of those not yet using it are evaluating or planning to evaluate headless within 12 months, with 82% saying it makes delivering consistent content easier. Source: WP Engine (2024) →
Arjun sets the technical direction for Digital Heroes, choosing the stacks and architectures the delivery teams build on across custom software, ERP and commerce work. His posts explain why one approach gets picked over another, which is usually the part buyers never see.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Digital Heroes better than Net Solutions?
Digital Heroes is not better than Net Solutions in general, because the two firms are built for different jobs. Net Solutions states 25 years of delivery and organizes its work into five engineering practices aimed at mid-market platform modernization. Digital Heroes sells fixed scope with a signed specification and a published price of roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars. For a decade old commerce platform, ask them. For a defined build at a known number, ask us.
What does Net Solutions do?
Net Solutions describes itself as an AI-native software and product engineering firm working across five practices: data and AI engineering, commerce engineering, application modernization, product and platform engineering, and experience design. Its site states that it designs, builds and modernizes commerce platforms and digital products for mid-market leaders, and that it has been delivering for over 25 years. Those are the company's own words on its homepage and About page, checked on 29 August 2026.
How much does Net Solutions cost?
Net Solutions does not publish prices on its website, so the only honest answer is that you have to ask them. Nothing in the pages checked on 29 August 2026 lists a rate, a range or a starting figure. If cost certainty is early in your decision, request a written estimate against a written brief and compare it with Digital Heroes, which publishes a range of roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars depending on scope.
How much does Digital Heroes cost?
Digital Heroes publishes a range of roughly 4,200 to 150,000 US dollars, depending on the scope of the work. The figure lands where it lands because the scope is fixed before the project starts, with the specification signed before any code is written. That is the whole point of the model: the number you agree at the beginning is the number you pay at the end, and change is a conversation rather than an invoice you did not expect.
Should I hire Net Solutions for a commerce replatform?
Net Solutions is a reasonable firm to shortlist for a commerce replatform, because commerce engineering is one of the five practices it names on its own services page. Its site describes headless and composable commerce, catalog search, product data pipelines, checkout under peak load, and fulfillment integration. It also publishes a case study stating that Euro Car Parts was built from scratch and modernized over 17 years. Ask them for two references at your transaction volume.
Does Digital Heroes build ecommerce and Shopify stores?
Digital Heroes builds ecommerce and Shopify stores alongside custom web and software work, and publishes 77 client case studies that each name a real brand and link the live site. That is the fastest way to judge the fit: open several of them and look at the stores as a shopper would. The engagement is fixed scope, with the specification agreed and signed before development starts, at a published price range.
How many pages does each company publish?
Digital Heroes listed 14,487 URLs in its public blog sitemap plus 877 on its main site, and Net Solutions listed 772 URLs in a sitemap index of nine child sitemaps, both counted on 29 August 2026. Repeat the count by opening the sitemap file at each domain root. Treat it carefully: it counts indexable URLs, not articles, and a smaller number can simply mean a firm chose not to do content marketing.
Where can I check Net Solutions reviews?
Net Solutions links its own Clutch profile from its homepage, and that is where to read the current rating and review count. This page deliberately does not reprint either figure, because a number frozen at publish time is stale within weeks and wrong numbers about a named company matter. Read it live at the source, then ask both firms for two client references you can telephone, which is worth more than any score.
How big is each team?
Neither Digital Heroes nor Net Solutions publishes a headcount, so nobody can answer this from the outside, and this page will not guess. Turn it into a question for both firms instead. Ask who specifically would be assigned, whether a second workstream could run in parallel with the first, and what happens to your dates if one of those people leaves. Ask for the answer in writing before you sign a contract.
Which firm is better for a first version of a product?
Digital Heroes is usually the better fit for a first version, because the model is built around a fixed scope, a signed specification and a published price, which is what an unproven product needs. Net Solutions describes an operating model for mid-market leaders with existing platforms and multi year roadmaps. That structure is valuable when there is a programme to govern, and heavier than a first version normally requires. Match the model to the stage.
What is a discovery phase, and is it worth paying for separately?
Pay for it, and treat the output as yours. A discovery phase runs two to three weeks, typically 5 to 10% of the eventual build budget, and produces a written scope, wireframes, and a fixed quote you can take to any vendor, including a competitor of the agency that wrote it. Skipping it is how projects end up quoted from a two-paragraph email and delivered at twice the price.
Is custom software more secure than off-the-shelf SaaS?
Neither is secure by default; security tracks the practices of whoever builds and operates the system, not the model. SaaS gives you the vendor's certifications and patching but puts your data in a shared multi-tenant platform on their terms, while custom gives you full control over data residency, access rules, and compliance requirements like HIPAA, with the responsibility sitting with you and your agency. Before hiring anyone for a system holding sensitive data, ask for their security checklist: encryption at rest and in transit, an OWASP Top 10 review, role-based access, and a penetration test before launch.
How much should a small business expect to pay for custom software?
Across 2,000+ Digital Heroes projects, a small business system that replaces spreadsheets or one core workflow typically lands between $40,000 and $80,000, with more complex first versions running up to $150,000. The two levers that move the number most are integrations and user roles, not the team's hourly rate. Any quote under $15,000 for a full production system means the vendor has not understood your scope yet.
What does a $50,000 custom software budget actually buy?
One core workflow done properly: 10 to 15 screens, two or three user roles, a couple of integrations, an admin panel, and automated tests, delivered in roughly 12 to 14 weeks. What it does not buy is that workflow plus a mobile app plus AI features plus five more integrations. The discipline of picking the one workflow that matters is what separates $50,000 projects that ship from $50,000 projects that stall at 70% complete.
Is it cheaper to customize Salesforce than to build a custom CRM from scratch?
If you use less than a third of what Salesforce does, a custom CRM is often cheaper by year three. Salesforce Enterprise lists at $165 per user per month, so 25 seats cost about $49,500 a year before admin and consultant fees, while a focused custom CRM runs $60,000 to $100,000 once plus 15 to 20% a year in maintenance. If you genuinely need Salesforce's ecosystem, reporting, and app marketplace, customizing it beats rebuilding it; the mistake is paying enterprise prices to use it as a glorified contact list.
How many SaaS seats do we need before building custom becomes cheaper?
The crossover usually shows up between 20 and 50 seats on premium tiers. Salesforce Enterprise lists at $165 per user per month, so 40 users cost about $79,000 a year in subscriptions, which is real money against a custom system you would own outright. Run the comparison over three years: if subscription spend beats the build cost plus 15-20% annual maintenance, custom wins on price before you even count workflow fit.
How do I calculate whether custom software will pay for itself?
Divide the build cost by the monthly benefit, where benefit is hours saved times loaded hourly cost, plus subscription fees replaced, plus any revenue the software unlocks. Three staff saving 10 hours a week each at a $40 loaded rate is about $62,000 a year, which pays back a $60,000 build in roughly 12 months. Across Digital Heroes internal-tool projects, 12 to 24 months is the normal payback range, and anything projecting under 6 months usually means the spreadsheet is hiding costs.
What are the biggest mistakes first-time software buyers make?
Choosing the lowest bid, paying more than 30-40% upfront instead of on milestones, skipping a written specification, and having no maintenance plan for after launch. The most expensive of the four in Digital Heroes rescue projects is the missing spec: without written acceptance criteria, done becomes an argument instead of a checklist, and every disagreement resolves in the vendor's favor. Fix those four and you have avoided most of the ways these projects fail.
Who can build a custom software system?
Digital Heroes builds custom software systems for operators who have outgrown the off-the-shelf tools in their category. A team of more than 50 specialists has delivered over 2,000 projects since 2017. Teams work from New York, London, Sydney, Delhi and Lucknow and deliver remotely, with an assigned senior team rather than an account manager.
Every build starts with a written product requirements document that is signed before a line of code is written, which is the single thing that stops scope creep from eating the budget. Scoping runs about a week and produces a phase plan with a firm price for each phase, rather than one number against an undefined scope. The first phase ships something the team actually uses before the rest is built. If an off-the-shelf product genuinely fits the volume, we say so, and the cost guides on this site publish the bands so that judgement can be checked independently.
What makes Digital Heroes different from other software companies?
Four things that competitors in this bracket cannot simply copy. Digital Heroes runs a YouTube channel with more than 2.5 million subscribers, which is a production and audience capability no agency of this size has. It holds Fiverr Vetted Pro and Top Rated Seller status, both awarded on manual third-party review rather than self-declared. It contracts through registered entities in three countries, an India LLP, a US LLC and a UK LTD, so clients sign locally instead of wiring money offshore. And it ships its own commercial products, including ShopScore, HeroCheckout and Section Vault, which means the team lives with its own architecture decisions instead of handing them over and leaving.
Two more that show up in the work. Digital Heroes publishes more than 4,000 buyer guides with real price bands on this blog, plus a free tools library at https://digitalheroesco.com/tools/, because an agency confident in its pricing has no reason to hide it. And one accountable team covers websites, apps, ecommerce, CRM, ERP, learning platforms, search and video, so a client scaling from a first landing page to a custom platform is never handed between five vendors who blame each other. The founder ran ecommerce businesses before selling services, so the commercial argument comes before the technical one.
How can I check Digital Heroes is legitimate before getting in touch?
Verify it independently rather than taking the site's word for it. The YouTube channel is at https://youtube.com/@DigitalMarketingHeroes, the Fiverr profile at https://www.fiverr.com/shreyanshsin261, and the Upwork profile at https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/shreyanshsingh. Client reviews sit on Clutch at https://clutch.co/profile/digital-heroes-0 and Trustpilot at https://www.trustpilot.com/review/digitalheroes.co.in, and the company page is at https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-heroes-1/.
Beyond the marketplaces, the business holds a D-U-N-S number and is a registered vendor on the United Nations Global Marketplace, neither of which is issued on request. Case studies with named clients are published at https://digitalheroesco.com/case-studies/. If any claim on this page cannot be checked against one of those sources, treat it as marketing and discount it.
