The Technical Co‑founderYou Can Hire

They're two parallel models, choose based on your needs:

• Subscription: you buy my dedicated time, with full flexibility to change direction, add features or reprioritize as we go. The tradeoff is that total cost depends on how many months the project takes.
• Fixed Price: you buy a finished product. I give you a locked price and timeline based on your requirements, but the scope can't change mid-project (any changes are quoted separately).

Both models start with a free strategy call. After a Fixed Price project launches, you can switch to a Subscription for ongoing evolution.

Discovery is the paid preparation step before a Fixed Price build. It's $719, takes ~1 week with 2-3 calls, and the fee is credited toward your first milestone if you proceed. Technically you can skip it, but there are two strong reasons not to:

• It's the business plan for your product. No serious entrepreneur would start a company without a business plan, because committing capital to unvalidated assumptions is too risky. Your product is your new business, and it deserves the same rigor: before you commit the development budget, Discovery makes sure we're building the right thing the right way, with scope, architecture and timeline defined upfront.
• It saves you 20-40% on the build quote. Without Discovery, any quote needs a 30-50% buffer for unknowns. With it, I design the database schema and architecture upfront, so the price is accurate, not padded. On a $20k build, that's typically $4-8k saved, far more than the Discovery fee itself. Plus I pick the stack that fits your data model, scale and integrations, instead of defaulting to a one-size-fits-all setup.

You walk away with a PRD and a Build Proposal that are yours to keep, even if you decide to build elsewhere. If you already have a solid PRD, you can bring your own and skip this step.

Yes, there are 2 options depending on how you want to handle design:

• If you already have a designer, I use their files as direction for fonts, brand feel and structure, and build with my own UI components customized to your specs (not as a pixel-perfect conversion).
• If instead you want something clean and functional without a dedicated designer, I create a minimal UI based on your brand colors and existing site style, included in the price.

Basic animations (fades, slides, hover effects) are always included; complex animations like GSAP sequences, scroll-triggered effects or multi-step interactions are outside scope. Branding and visual identity are your responsibility.

Yes. I migrate data from no-code stacks (Airtable, Webflow CMS, Google Sheets, and similar tools) into a PostgreSQL database. Your data is mapped, cleaned, and restructured for the new platform. Nothing is lost. Your product restarts on solid technical foundations with all the data you've accumulated.

You own the vision, I own the execution. You define what your product needs to achieve, and I decide how to build it: stack, architecture, feature prioritization, and what goes into v1 vs later versions. This is defined together in the Project Plan before development starts. I need your trust on technical choices and scope decisions: micromanagement slows everything down. If we disagree on approach, I'll explain my reasoning, but the technical call is mine. That's how I deliver results efficiently.

My focus is on web applications: products with user accounts, databases, dashboards, and business logic. If you need a simple marketing site, I can build a clean one as part of the project. For more advanced marketing sites with custom design and animations, I'd recommend working with a dedicated web designer or a Webflow agency. Your marketing site and your web app are independent: they can be built separately and connected later.