SaaS & Web Application Development
I build SaaS products and web applications end to end — database schema, backend API, frontend, authentication, billing, deployment — and hand you a repository you own outright.
This is a solo engagement. You work directly with the person writing the code, which means no requirements telephone game between a salesperson, a project manager and an offshore team. For a first product build, that is usually the difference between shipping in months and shipping in quarters.
What building a SaaS product with me actually looks like
We start with a call to pin down what the product has to do in its first version and, more usefully, what it does not. Most MVPs fail on scope, not on engineering. I will push back on features that can wait.
From there I work in milestones you approve and pay against, each ending in something you can actually click. You see working software every one to two weeks rather than a status document.
- Scoping call — what the product does, who it is for, what version one excludes
- Data model and architecture, written down before any UI is built
- Milestone builds, each deployed to a staging URL you can use
- Production deployment, monitoring, and a handover walkthrough
Do you build the frontend as well as the backend?
Yes — both. Frontend in React and Next.js with Tailwind, backend in Node.js (NestJS or Express) or Python (FastAPI, Django), and the database layer in PostgreSQL or MongoDB. That covers the whole path from a form a user fills in to the row it writes.
I am an engineer, not a brand designer. I build clean, conventional, accessible interfaces from a design system, and I have shipped plenty of products where I did the interface design myself. If your product needs genuine visual identity work — a distinctive brand, illustration, motion design — hire a designer for that part and I will build against their files.
What about multi-tenancy, auth and billing?
These are the three things first-time SaaS builds usually get wrong late and expensively, so they get decided at the schema stage, not bolted on.
Tenant isolation is designed into the data model up front. Authentication uses established providers rather than hand-rolled session code. Billing is wired to a real payment provider with webhook handling for the failure cases — expired cards, failed renewals, mid-cycle plan changes — because those are what actually break in production.
Will it survive growth?
The honest answer is that most new products do not need to scale, they need to launch — and building for imagined scale is the most common way an MVP runs out of money. I build for the load you can justify, on an architecture that will not have to be thrown away when the load arrives.
That means normal things done properly: indexed queries, background jobs for anything slow, caching where it earns its complexity, and a deployment you can actually run more than one of. I have taken systems from launch through to real production volume, and I would rather explain a scaling decision to you than make it silently.
What you get
- A private Git repository you own from the first commit
- Backend API with documented endpoints
- Frontend web application, responsive and accessible
- Database schema with migrations
- Authentication, roles and permissions
- Deployment to your cloud account, with CI/CD
- Handover documentation and a walkthrough call
Tools I use for this
A good fit if
- A founder taking a product from nothing to a first paying customer
- A business replacing spreadsheets or a manual process with an internal tool
- An existing product needing a substantial new module built alongside the current team
- A team that has an idea validated and now needs it built properly
Not a fit if
- A marketing site or brochure page — a web designer will do it faster and cheaper than I will
- A project where the requirement is the lowest possible hourly rate; I am not competing on price
- Work that needs a team of five starting next week — I am one person, and I will tell you when an agency is the right call
- Mobile-first native apps (iOS/Android); I build web and can advise, but native is not my craft
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How long does a SaaS MVP take to build?
A focused MVP — one core workflow, auth, billing, an admin view — is typically eight to sixteen weeks of build time. The range is driven almost entirely by scope, not by technology. After the scoping call I give you a milestone breakdown with dates rather than a single number.
Do I own the source code?
Yes. The repository is yours from the first commit, hosted under your GitHub organisation where possible. Intellectual property in the delivered work transfers to you on final payment for each milestone. There is no license-back arrangement and no proprietary framework you would be locked into.
What happens after launch?
Bugs in delivered work are fixed free within the warranty window after each milestone ships. Beyond that, most clients move to a monthly retainer for new features and maintenance, but that is optional — you can take the codebase and hire in-house, and it is written to be handed over.
Can you take over a project someone else started?
Yes, and a good part of my work is exactly that. It starts with a paid code review — usually a few days — where I read the codebase and give you a written assessment of what is salvageable, what is risky, and what it would cost to continue versus rebuild. You get that assessment whether or not you continue with me.
Need web app & saas development?
Tell me what you're building and what's in your way. I reply within 24 hours with honest questions and a rough estimate — no sales sequence.