Ecommerce stores and growth platforms
Newer tools change quickly, so it helps to work with someone who has already shipped the pattern you are buying.
We prototype the risky integration first, then sort out auth, data contracts, evaluation, and monitoring before spending time on polish.
Most people who reach this page are brands searching for ecommerce development. Ecommerce development for modern storefronts, headless commerce, checkout flows, and conversion-focused product UX.
What you get
- High-converting storefronts
- Headless commerce setups
- Checkout and payments
- SEO and performance focus
- Documented handover and runbooks
- Help getting it deployed
How engagement works
Projects are shaped around brands searching for ecommerce development, so scope stays realistic, the first release comes quickly, and there is room to improve without a rewrite.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. On ecommerce development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. The work for teams in San Francisco stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. You see progress on the critical path every week.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For ecommerce development work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- Shopify
- storefront, checkout, and payments handled, so the build goes into what makes the store different
- Stripe
- payments, subscriptions, and the tax and invoicing edge cases you do not want to build
- Medusa.js
- a headless commerce backend when Shopify's model is too rigid for the catalogue
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
What the first weeks look like
- Week 1
Spike the risky part
We build the thinnest possible version of high-converting storefronts against your real data. If it is going to be a problem, it is better to know in week one than week six.
- Weeks 2-3
Harden the integration
Auth, rate limits, error paths, and the data contract. This is the work that separates a demo from something you can leave running.
- Weeks 4-6
Wire it into the product
The ecommerce development stops being a standalone service and becomes a feature people use, with the interface and permissions that implies.
- Ongoing
Evaluate and tune
Behaviour gets measured against cases you care about, and we tune from that rather than from impressions.
Weighing up your options
There are three realistic ways to get this built. Each is the right answer for someone.
A solo freelancer
Cheapest per hour and fine for a contained task. The risk on ecommerce development is breadth — one person covering design, backend, infrastructure, and launch usually means one of them is weak, and there is no cover when they are unavailable.
A local agency in San Francisco
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying SF Bay Area expecting modern stacks and AI fluency. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your ecommerce development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the ecommerce development write the code, you get weekly demos instead of status decks, and the engagement ends when the thing is live and handed over.
Work we have shipped
React Email Templates
Email systems · Resend
Reusable React Email templates sent through Resend for production transactional mail.
Freelance email kit using React Email, Resend, TypeScript, and Tailwind to create and send branded emails from a React app.
- · Reusable email templates
- · Resend delivery integration
- · TypeScript-safe composition
- · Tailwind-styled layouts
React Email · Resend · TypeScript · Tailwind
Horizan Labs
Frontend · Internship
Marketing website contribution during the Arsol internship, focused on responsive UI and frontend delivery.
Early-career site work at Arsol using React, Next.js, and Tailwind to help ship the Horizan Labs web presence with the team.
- · Responsive marketing pages
- · Team-based frontend delivery
- · Modern React/Next stack
- · UI performance and accessibility focus
React · Next.js · Tailwind · MySQL
Case Management Hub
Full-stack engineer · NestJS · Next.js
HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS for 150+ US organizations, with dual databases, realtime collaboration, billing, and secure client portals.
Enterprise case management platform for healthcare and social-work organizations with encryption, realtime messaging, Stripe billing, Zoom, and calendar sync.
- · HIPAA-ready architecture with encryption and audit logging
- · Realtime collaboration via Socket.io + Redis
- · Client portal and role-based access control
- · Stripe billing and document workflows
Next.js · NestJS · TypeScript · MongoDB · Redis · Socket.io
Working with teams in San Francisco
SF Bay Area expecting modern stacks and AI fluency. We work with clients in San Francisco remotely and keep overlapping hours in PST/PDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with San Francisco teams
San Francisco is on PT, which is the widest gap we work across. We hold one fixed call in your morning and run everything else in writing, so the time difference costs you a day at most on decisions.
What San Francisco clients usually need
Bay Area briefs are the most AI-heavy we see: agents with real tool access, RAG over internal knowledge, MCP servers connecting models to existing systems, and evaluation harnesses to prove any of it works.
Contracts, data, and compliance
Teams here expect modern defaults, so we work in TypeScript, ship through CI, and keep infrastructure reproducible. Expect direct technical conversation with whoever is writing the code.
