From R22 500
Software development
Custom software, built and looked after by the person who wrote it.
For when nothing off the shelf quite fits, or when the subscription you have been paying for has stopped being worth what it costs.
- Good fit
- A business with a process no off-the-shelf product fits, or a subscription that has stopped earning what it charges.
- Not a fit
- If you need a supplier with a long record of shipped products behind them, that is not me yet, and I will not pretend otherwise to win the job.
In stages, not one long silence
The expensive way to build software is to disappear for four months and come back with the wrong thing. So it goes in stages, each one small enough to look at and change your mind about.
You see something working early. If the shape is wrong, we find out while it is still cheap to fix.
One person, the whole way
You talk to me from the first conversation to the last, and afterwards. No account manager relaying messages, and no junior doing the work with somebody else’s name on the invoice.
Everything is set up in your own accounts, and the code is yours with the notes to run it. Nothing about it depends on me still being here.
What you get
- A scoping stage first, and a fixed figure before building starts
- Built in stages, so you see it working early
- You speak to the person writing it, start to finish
- The code is yours, with the notes to run it
- Set up in your own accounts, not mine
- Support afterwards if you want it, and nothing locked to me if you do not
How it runs
- 01 Scope it A paid stage on its own. You come out with a written plan and a fixed figure, whether or not you build it with me.
- 02 Build the core The main thing it has to do, working, in front of real people.
- 03 Fill it out Accounts, permissions, the edges. Released in pieces you sign off as they land.
- 04 Hand over Running in your own accounts, documented as it went rather than written up at the end.
Where I have done this
Straight answers
- How do I know what it will cost?
- The scoping stage exists for exactly that. It is paid, it is separate, and you come out of it with a written plan and a fixed figure. If you take that plan somewhere else, that is fine.
- What have you built?
- Websites, mostly, plus my own tools — a client dashboard and an AI console. I will not dress those up as somebody else’s product. If you need a supplier with a shelf of shipped software behind them, that is not me yet.
- What if we stop halfway?
- You keep everything built to that point, running in your own accounts, with the notes. Stages are meant to be places you can stop.
Start a project
Need software development?
A business with a process no off-the-shelf product fits, or a subscription that has stopped earning what it charges.
Pick whichever suits you