The engine behind a product people log into.
Behind-the-scenes engineering and database architecture for complex, high-scale cloud software. We handle the heavy lifting: server-side logic, high-load data structures, secured user profiles and flexible subscription tiers, then deploy and stress-test the whole thing.
€1,500
Fixed price, excl. VAT
Quoted
Schedule, with the price
2
Cloud providers supported
30 days
Defect warranty
The part nobody sees.
Built to be inspected.
This package is deliberately weighted toward the back end. The infrastructure is deployed and stress-tested in cloud environments rather than demonstrated on a laptop.
Server-side logic
Business rules implemented where they belong: on the server, tested, and impossible to bypass from a browser console.
High-load data structures
A schema designed for the queries you will actually run, with indexing and caching planned before the first million rows arrive.
Secured user profiles
Registration, sessions, password hashing, role separation and account recovery: the whole identity surface, built properly.
Subscription tiers
Plans, entitlements, upgrades, downgrades and billing-cycle edge cases programmed as configuration rather than hard-coded conditionals.
Cloud deployment
Provisioned on AWS or DigitalOcean with environments separated, secrets managed outside the repository, and deploys reproducible.
Stress testing
Load-tested against realistic traffic before launch, with the results and the breaking point written down so you know what you own.
Honest fit.
Before you pay.
Choose The Platform if
- //01Your users log in and the product remembers them.
- //02You bill on a recurring cycle with more than one plan.
- //03You have a front end already and need the engine behind it.
- //04Your current prototype falls over under real traffic.
Look elsewhere if
- //01Nobody needs an account → Fast Start
- //02You are selling physical goods one at a time → Digital Retail
- //03The idea has not been validated with a single customer yet.
- //04You need native mobile apps rather than a cloud back end.
Where The Platform sits.
| Capability | Fast Start€700 | Digital Retail€1,000 | The Platform€1,500 | Custom CRMOn request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom-coded front end | ||||
| Deployment and domain wiring | ||||
| Payment gateway | — | Optional | ||
| User accounts and authentication | — | — | ||
| Subscription tiers and entitlements | — | — | Optional | |
| High-load database architecture | — | — | ||
| Cloud provisioning | — | — | ||
| Load and stress testing | — | — | Optional |
Brief to launch.
The same four steps.
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//01 Day 1
A short conversation about what the thing has to do and who it has to do it for. You leave with a written specification: pages, integrations, data model, and the exact list of what is not included.
Scope call
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//02 Days 2–3
Send a Figma file, a PDF, a competitor you like, or a sketch. We work from whatever exists. If nothing exists, we propose a structure and you approve it before anything is built.
Design handoff
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//03 Days 4–12
The build happens on a staging URL you can open at any time. Progress is visible daily rather than revealed in a single handover at the end.
Engineering
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//04 Days 13–15
We deploy to your hosting, point your domain, install analytics, hand over the repository and credentials, and walk you through editing anything you will need to edit yourself.
Deployment and handover
//01 Does the price cover the front end too?
The package is weighted toward server-side work: logic, database, authentication, billing and infrastructure. A functional interface for those features is included; an extensive bespoke design system on top is scoped and quoted separately so the price stays honest.
//02 Who pays for the cloud hosting?
You do, on your own AWS or DigitalOcean account, in your name. We provision and configure it. That way the infrastructure, the billing relationship and the root credentials are all yours from day one.
//03 Can you take over an existing codebase?
Often, yes. We start with a paid review of what exists and give you a written assessment, including the case for rewriting part of it if that is the honest answer. You decide before any migration work is committed to.
//04 What does stress-tested actually mean?
Synthetic traffic driven at the deployed system until response times degrade, so we can report the concurrency it comfortably handles and where it starts to break. You get the numbers.
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Bring us the hard part.
Describe the product and how people are meant to pay for it. You get a written scope and a fixed quote back.
Reply within two working days. No sales call unless you ask for one.