$15,000 – $50,000 · 2–4 months

Custom software that fits your business. Reading, Pennsylvania.

Your team deserves better than another workaround.

Turn a tangle of spreadsheets, messages and manual steps into a tool shaped around the work. Scheduling, inventory, quoting and review flows—with clear permissions and data you can export.

Discuss your project

What is in it

A workflow mapped with the people who will use it, then turned into screens and actions that fit the job.
Accounts and billing in your name, with permissions suited to the people using the tool.
A documented data export you can run yourself, in a format another system can read.
Tests around the important business rules, such as preventing a double booking or protecting a ledger entry from an untracked change.

What it costs

Prices and timescales for this kind of job
The job	Price	How long
A custom internal tool	$15,000 – $50,000	2–4 months

The Build Plan — $1,500, two weeks

A practical blueprint: numbered scope, a fixed price for each item, recommended technology, a dated timeline, exclusions and handover terms. Includes a one-hour walkthrough.

The plan is yours to keep and use with another developer. Start a build with me within 60 days and the $1,500 is credited against the first invoice.
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The Code Review — $3,000, two weeks

A written assessment of existing code: what works, what needs repair or rebuilding, and a priced completion plan. Includes a call to walk through the findings.

The review is yours to keep and use elsewhere. Start the build with me within 60 days and the $3,000 is credited against the first invoice. A rescue quote follows the review, not the other way around.
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Build fees are one-time project costs, not a website rental. Domain renewal, hosting, payment processing and any paid tools are separate, billed to your accounts. Optional maintenance is separate too. The written agreement sets the scope and payment terms.

What is not in it

The scope depends on the workflow, integrations and data migration involved. We will agree those before building. I do not charge a per-user software license; hosting, third-party services and any optional support are separate costs identified in the plan.

See the thinking in practice

Job Board brings roles, stable scores, evidence and reviewed drafts into one interface. It is a private personal tool—not a client deployment—and demonstrates how a specific workflow becomes usable software.

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Before you start

Can you work with our existing spreadsheets and software?: That is part of discovery. We will check your data, export formats and available integrations, then identify what to retain or migrate. A system without suitable access may limit what can be connected.
How do we know whether a custom tool is worth building?: Start with the repeated task, who performs it and what currently goes wrong. We will compare a focused custom build with adapting a tool you already have before deciding on the scope.

Talk through your project

Your project. Your way forward.

You own it: On final payment, the custom code, design, content and data are yours outright—assigned, not licensed. Unfinished work remains mine until final payment. Reusable components and third-party licenses are the exceptions described below.
The accounts will be yours from day one: Domain, hosting, DNS, analytics, email and payments will be set up in your name, on your billing, with me added where needed. You keep access when the work ends; I do not resell hosting.
Reusable and third-party components: My reusable components remain mine, with a permanent free license for you to use, change and have another developer maintain them. Third-party software retains its own license; any relevant restrictions or paid dependencies will be identified in the plan.
The code goes in your repository from the first commit: Your project code will be in your repository from the first commit. You can follow the changes and share the work with another developer without waiting for a final handover.
Getting your data out: If the project holds data, it will include a documented export you can run yourself. Any limits imposed by a connected service will be explained before you buy.
After launch: Thirty days of fixes are included for work that does not meet the agreed scope. New features are quoted separately. After that, support is $125 an hour with no minimum. Response targets: site down, same business day; other faults, one business day; changes, three business days. These are response times, not guaranteed resolution times.
How it ends: Ongoing support has no minimum term or cancellation fee, with thirty days’ notice either way. Ending support does not disable your site. Your domain, hosting and third-party subscriptions still need to be maintained.
If I am unavailable: There is no automatic replacement developer. Your accounts, repository and handover notes will be available to you throughout the project. If I cannot be reached for ten business days, you can give those materials to another developer and continue without waiting for me.

Explore another starting point

Everything else I build, the whole price list, the terms and the work itself are on the main page.

What would you love to make possible?

Tell me what you have in mind—no brief needed. I’ll reply within one business day with a practical next step, and there is no commitment to a paid project.

Or write directly: hello@sunwave.studio