Web design & development
Custom Web App
A working product rather than a prototype: accounts, a database, an admin surface and a deployment that stays up. The line between a website and a web application is whether something is stored and changed, and everything on the far side of that line costs more for good reasons.
- Price
- from $7,500
- Paid in full before work starts
- Delivery
- scoped
- Dated once we have seen your material
- Risk
- Refundable
- In full, any time before work starts
Buy this if people need to log in, if data has to persist, or if you currently run the business on a spreadsheet that has outgrown itself.
What you get
- Backend and database
- Authentication
- Admin surface
- Deployment and handover
What it is not
- Payment processing, which depends on your provider and is quoted once we know which one
- Ongoing maintenance, monitoring and support, which is a separate arrangement
- Native mobile apps for iOS or Android
- Third-party service fees: hosting, database, email, storage
Why it costs $7,500
$7,500 is the starting point for a first working version: backend, database, authentication, an admin surface and deployment. It is deliberately not an enterprise number, and it is deliberately not a number that pretends a complex product can be built for the price of a website.
How it runs
- 01 Brief and scope What the product does, who logs in, and what the first version genuinely needs to do. Cutting this list is most of the value.
- 02 Data model Agreed before code. Getting this wrong is the expensive mistake in software.
- 03 Build Backend, database, auth and admin, with the interface built against real data rather than mock-ups.
- 04 Deployment and handover Running in your own infrastructure, with the code and the keys handed to you.
Questions
Where is the line between a website and a web app?
If a visitor only reads, it is a website. If a visitor creates, changes or logs in, it is an application. Authentication is usually the moment it crosses over.
Who owns the code?
You do, once the final payment clears. Third-party libraries stay under their own licences, and we keep the right to describe the work in our portfolio without naming you.
Do you maintain it afterwards?
Not automatically. Tell us what you need and we will price it. We hand over a deployment any competent developer can pick up, so you are not trapped.