The company behind Best City Places
Systems are judged when conditions get bad.
DevSolid is the company that designs and publishes Best City Places, the city companion that works even offline. It builds on more than twenty years of architecture for regulated systems, where real money moves and every action has to stand up to an audit.
Thierry MalangaFounder and president of DevSolid
Conditions
Illustration
Go on, make them worse.
Verdict
All clear. Calm conditions prove nothing.
Gaming platform
- Transactions
- committed
- Capacity
- headroom available
- Audit trail
- recording
Best City Places
- Map & data
- live from the network
Place Masséna
Square · Nice
- 4 min walk
- Audio guide
- 360°
Saved on this device
A note from the founder
Why I work this way.
I have spent more than twenty years in systems where an outage is counted in real money and every action has to be explained to a regulator. You learn quickly there that software is not judged on demo day, but on the day things get complicated.
That is the standard DevSolid brings to its clients, and the one we hold ourselves to with Best City Places: a city app that has to keep working where you actually need it — out in the street, with no signal.
I founded DevSolid to build that way, for the long run.
Thierry MalangaFounder and president of DevSolid
Our product · Best City Places
The best of every city, at the right time.
Exploring a city is still harder than it should be. Too many apps. Too much fragmentation. And very little that still works once you are actually out there — no signal, an unfamiliar language, no time to research.
Best City Places is one app that holds up all the way through, from the first idea of a trip to the moment you are standing in the street.
A selection, not a directory — and no recommendation is for sale.
Place Masséna
Square · Nice
- 4 min walk
- Audio guide
- 360°
Saved on this device
- Available
- Nice
- Languages
- 12
- Android app
- Coming soon
Four things we refuse to compromise on
No service — still working
Offline
A complete interactive map that keeps working with no network — transit, walking routes, tap any place.
- Transit
- Walking routes
- Every place
12languages
Curation
Places, neighbourhoods and local food selected and verified city by city, in 12 languages. Not scraped in bulk.
- Places
- Neighbourhoods
- Local food
Right place, right moment
Context
Being open is not the same as being worth your time. The weather, the hour, the season, how long you have, what makes sense right after what you have just done.
- Weather
- Time of day
- Season
- Time you have
Immersion
Narrated audio guides, stories, 360° views — a place you can experience before you leave, and truly understand once you are standing in it.
- Audio guides
- Stories
- 360° views
A city is not only a destination. It is a territory with its own goals.
Spreading visitor flows, extending the season, bringing value back to the villages behind the coast. Best City Places is built for the traveller first — and that is exactly what makes it worth something to the people who run these places.
Designed for
- Tourism boards & cities
- Hotels
- Content creators
- Museums & cultural sites
- Local businesses
Engineering
Solid software does not depend on the memory of whoever wrote it.
Best City Places is built the way regulated systems are: tested, documented, and able to be picked up, audited and extended.
- years of regulated systems
- 20+
- automated tests
- ≈ 30,000
- languages
- 12
What Best City Places demanded of us
Offline by design
Once a city is downloaded, the map, routes, timetables and recommendations work with no network.
Sourced content, in twelve languages
Every place goes through a production and verification chain before it is published, then goes out in twelve languages.
Web today, Android next
The website is live. The Android app is in preparation, on the same content.
Tested and documented
Around 30,000 automated tests and a documented architecture: the product does not rest on one person's memory.
Expertise · Gaming & casino systems
Twenty years where failure is not an option.
Casino and gaming platforms run on real money, under real regulation, around the clock. For more than 20 years, Thierry Malanga, the founder of DevSolid, has designed and led software systems in that environment, from casino management software to enterprise microservices. DevSolid brings that experience to gaming companies — now with AI built in where it genuinely helps.
- AI for regulated systems
- Gaming platform architecture
- Compliance, security & auditability
- .NET & the Microsoft stack
- Modernisation & software quality
- Product engineering, web & mobile
Recommendations
The people who worked with our founder say it better.
I worked with Thierry for 15 years. […] A technical and spiritual leader, he has consistently supported us, contributing to the team’s technical and interpersonal growth.We were always able to talk openly, find solutions and became real friends. […] He is not one for quick fixes as he wants his products to be high quality, robust and well tested.Working with Thierry for more than a decade on several enterprise and micro service solutions for Casino system, he is an exceptional technologist with an enthusiastic approach and unique ability to practically apply concepts and deliver results.I’m grateful for everything he has taught me, both technically and personally. I highly recommend that every company have someone like him.What I appreciate most about Thierry is his passion for exploring the latest technologies. Our shared enthusiasm for innovation made our collaboration not only productive but also enjoyable.Thierry is a passionate and curious developer who doesn’t shy away from any challenge to keep moving forward. […] As a bonus, he is a very pleasant colleague.Excerpts from recommendations published on LinkedIn.
Contact
Conditions getting tough? Let's talk.
One address for everything. Tell us what you are building and what is making it hard.
contact@devsolid.com- Gaming & casino systemsArchitecture, consulting, training.
- Best City PlacesDestinations, tourism boards, partners, investors, press.