Hire a web developer — with the numbers published first.
One independent developer, every major stack, terms written down before money moves: rate bands published, scope fixed-price, quote within two business days, and you own everything on payment.
Most "hire a developer" pages are marketplaces: thousands of profiles, prices hidden, quality a lottery. This is the opposite — one developer, a defined stack, and every commercial fact published before the first call. The rate benchmarks are real editorial estimates, the service pages carry honest price bands, and the contract terms are the ones every engagement actually runs on.
The stack map: WordPress (custom themes, all major builders, WooCommerce), Shopify (themes, apps, migrations), and custom builds on Node and React-family front-ends — plus the surrounding work: redesigns, migrations, performance, security and technical SEO. If your project fits a platform, you get the platform recommendation; if it needs custom, you get custom. Never the reverse order.
How it starts: you send the brief — six questions, ten minutes. Within two business days you receive a written scope with a fixed price, what is included, what is explicitly not, and the milestones. No discovery-call theatre, no "contact us for pricing."
Where to start
By what you need built.
WordPress
Custom themes, every major builder, WooCommerce, migrations that keep rankings.
Shopify
Custom themes, app integrations, store builds and migrations that convert.
Custom development
Web apps and builds where platforms fight your requirements — Node, React, PostgreSQL.
Redesign
Modernize without losing the traffic and rankings the current site earned.
Maintenance
Updates, backups with tested restores, monitoring — a site that stays healthy.
Rate benchmarks
What web developers cost by stack, seniority and region — the honest tables.
Quarterly, and only when the numbers move
Get the rate report before you negotiate.
Updated rate bands across the major stacks and regions, plus what changed and why. No other email.
Questions
Asked before hiring.
Independent developers typically bill $18–150 per hour depending on region and stack, with projects landing between $1,500 and $80,000 by size. This site publishes full rate benchmarks by stack and region, and every project here is quoted fixed-price against a written scope within two business days.
A scoped quote comes back within two business days of the brief. Starts are typically one to two weeks after signing, and urgent rescue work can often begin sooner. If the timeline cannot be met honestly, you hear that at the quote stage.
A brief that answers six questions: the business goal, what needs to exist, your constraints, who handles content, what exists already, and the real deadline. The brief form walks all six — or start from the free brief template.
You do, on payment. Repository and hosting access from day one, IP assignment per milestone, no license games. The contract guide covers the five clauses that make this enforceable — every engagement here runs on exactly those terms.
Tell me what you are building. Get a real number back.
Scoped quote within two business days. If it is not a fit, you keep the scope and the numbers.