Frontend to backend, one owner
Hiring rounds often take weeks before anyone writes real code. What you usually need is one person who can own the architecture and the delivery from the first week.
Discovery stays short and specific: users, data, and risks. After that we build the critical path first and strengthen it from there.
We work best with founders and teams needing full-stack ownership who want a partner that ships. UI, APIs, auth, payments, and infrastructure delivered as a coherent product system.
What you get
- Complete product delivery
- API and database design
- Auth, billing, and realtime
- Maintainable TypeScript codebases
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your full stack developer, we run a shared backlog, design reviews, and engineering sprints, and you keep one point of contact throughout.
- 01
Discover
Goals, constraints, data sources, and success metrics, all settled before we touch architecture or prompts. You see progress on the critical path every week.
- 02
Design
System design, AI/tool boundaries, interface direction, and interaction prototypes. Nothing here waits on a handover between separate teams.
- 03
Build
Modern stack, clean architecture, evaluated AI behavior, and iterative demos you can react to. On full stack development projects we favour practical architecture over trendy defaults.
- 04
Launch
Ship, monitor, harden, and keep improving models, tools, and product after go-live. The work for teams in Karachi stays tied to the outcome you asked for.
How we build it, and why
The stack is chosen per project, not applied from a template. For full stack developer work these are the defaults, and the reason each one is on the list.
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- Next.js
- server rendering and static generation in one framework, so marketing pages stay fast and app routes stay dynamic
- Node.js
- one language across the stack, so context does not get lost at the boundary
- NestJS
- structure and dependency injection on the backend, which keeps a growing API from turning into a pile of route handlers
- Stripe
- payments, subscriptions, and the tax and invoicing edge cases you do not want to build
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the full stack development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — complete product delivery rather than a setup ticket.
- Weeks 2-6
Build to the milestone
Pull requests, reviews, and weekly demos. You see the work as it happens rather than at a handover meeting.
- Handover
Documented and transferable
Runbooks, architecture notes, and a walkthrough, so the work does not depend on us still being here.
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 full stack 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 Karachi
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Karachi businesses needing modern websites, apps, and automation. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your full stack development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the full stack 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
Vigorant
Frontend · Accessibility
Accessible web app with reusable components, Redux Toolkit state, and Strapi integration.
Code Band product built with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Redux Toolkit, focused on accessibility and maintainable UI patterns.
- · Accessibility-first UI
- · Reusable component system
- · Efficient Redux Toolkit logic
- · Strapi-backed content
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Redux Toolkit · Strapi
Quickee UI Library
Design system · Tailwind
Tailwind component library for React and Next.js with reusable UI patterns inspired by Tailwind UI.
Code Band component kit providing a variety of production-ready Tailwind components with Redux-friendly patterns for React and Next.js apps.
- · Reusable Tailwind components
- · React and Next.js ready
- · Consistent interaction patterns
- · Faster UI assembly across projects
React · Next.js · Tailwind · Redux
CRM Dashboard
Frontend · Analytics
Customer relationship dashboard with management workflows and data visualization on Next.js.
Freelance CRM surface for managing relationships and visualizing key metrics, deployed on Vercel.
- · CRM management views
- · Data visualization
- · Responsive dashboard layout
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
Working with teams in Karachi
Karachi businesses needing modern websites, apps, and automation. We work with clients in Karachi remotely and keep overlapping hours in PKT. We usually collaborate in English/Urdu.
How we work with Karachi teams
Karachi shares our working day, so reviews and decisions happen without waiting for an overlap window. Meetings in person are practical when a project calls for them.
What Karachi clients usually need
Karachi briefs tend to come from trading, logistics, and retail businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and need real systems: inventory, orders, and customer-facing apps.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in PKR locally. Integrations with local banks, courier APIs, and payment gateways are common scope, and we plan around their real-world reliability rather than the documentation.
