Ecommerce stores and growth platforms
Deep skills without product context tend to produce fragile integrations. The specialist work has to connect to real user flows.
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
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your ecommerce development, 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 ecommerce 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 remote and worldwide teams 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 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.
An in-house hire
A permanent engineer is the right call once the ecommerce development is continuous rather than a project. Before that point you are paying a salary, recruiting for months, and carrying the risk that the first hire is the wrong shape for the problem.
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
Brain Blog
Frontend · Gatsby · Strapi
Custom Gatsby blog with Strapi CMS, built for fast content publishing and a clean reading experience.
Freelance content product pairing Gatsby performance with Tailwind styling and a Strapi-powered editorial workflow.
- · Gatsby static generation
- · Strapi blog integration
- · Tailwind-driven layout
- · Fast content browsing
Gatsby · Tailwind · Strapi
Dumbiez
Frontend · NFT product
NFT comics platform for exploring and interacting with digital comic collectibles.
Independent Next.js product for browsing and engaging with NFT comics, styled with Tailwind and shipped on Vercel.
- · NFT comics browsing
- · Interactive collectible UX
- · Responsive Next.js UI
- · Vercel deployment
Next.js · React · Tailwind · Vercel
StudioX Localization
Frontend · i18n
UI polish and language translation pages for the StudioX product experience.
Contract contribution implementing UI fixes and localization pages with Next.js, React, and Tailwind to improve accessibility and multi-language use.
- · Language translation pages
- · UI accessibility fixes
- · Next.js page delivery
- · Clearer multi-language UX
Next.js · React · Tailwind
Where we work
International clients across US, UK, EU, Middle East, and Asia. We work remote-first, so the time zone matters less than keeping updates clear and regular. We usually collaborate in English.
