Brand websites built to rank and convert
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.
We start with your constraints and what success looks like, then build in short demos so everyone can react to working software instead of documents.
We work best with businesses searching for a website developer who want a partner that ships. Custom website development with performance, SEO, and clear calls to action.
What you get
- Custom brand websites
- Core Web Vitals focus
- Clear conversion paths
- Easy content updates
- One studio accountable for the result
- Design and engineering on the same schedule
- Support available after launch
How engagement works
As your website 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 website 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 Austin 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 website developer 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
- React
- the component model most teams can already hire for and maintain
- Tailwind
- design decisions stay in the markup, so the CSS does not grow faster than the product
- Strapi
- a headless CMS so content editors ship copy without a deploy
- Vercel
- preview deploys on every branch, so review happens on a real URL instead of a screenshot
What the first weeks look like
- Days 1-3
Context and constraints
Codebase, deploy path, and what "done" means for the website development. Short, because the useful version of this is specific.
- Week 1
First shipped slice
Something real goes out in the first week — custom brand websites 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 website 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 Austin
Same timezone and a face to meet, which genuinely matters for some teams. You are also paying Austin tech scene favoring end-to-end product builders. rates for the whole team including the layers that never touch your website development, and a local shortlist is a small shortlist.
Arcode
A small senior team. The people who scope the website 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
Working with teams in Austin
Austin tech scene favoring end-to-end product builders. We work with clients in Austin remotely and keep overlapping hours in CST/CDT. We usually collaborate in English.
How we work with Austin teams
Austin is ten to eleven hours behind us, so your morning is our late afternoon. One scheduled call a day covers the synchronous part; everything else runs on a shared backlog and written updates.
What Austin clients usually need
Austin briefs are mostly seed-to-Series-A products that need to ship before the next raise, plus a steady run of AI and developer-tooling work that suits the city's engineering density.
Contracts, data, and compliance
We invoice in USD under US contractor agreements with IP assignment. Texas has no state privacy regime as strict as California's, but most Austin clients sell nationally, so we build to the stricter standard anyway.
