Services

Two ways in, and running it afterwards. Each starts with a small fixed-price step that is credited when you commission the work. Each states who it is for, how it runs and where it is already running.

Prices at a glance
ItemServiceFirst stepBuild
1Website & findabilityQuick check free → Audit €790Fixed price from the audit
2Custom softwareScoping €490from €6,000
3Maintenance & Operations—from €99 / month

Website & findability

Your website exists but customers don't find it. I look for the cause first — it usually sits in the technology, not the marketing — and fix it verifiably: load time, structure, local visibility, and a machine-readable description for Google and AI search.

Audit

€790

The first three audits for €590 if I may show the result as a reference. Credited if you commission the work within four weeks.

Quick check free

How it runs

  1. Audit: name the causes before any work is commissioned, with scope and effort
  2. Repair the foundation: plugin conflicts, load time, duplicates, crawl hygiene
  3. Content and structure: distinct text per landing page, not swapped place names
  4. Make it machine-readable: Schema.org markup for Google and answer engines
  5. Hand over documentation complete enough to run the site without me

Already running at

Who it's for

Local businesses and independent professionals with an existing website, usually WordPress, who rank behind their competitors and don't know why. Mainly around Regensburg — that is where the clients I have done this for are based.

Common questions

Do you work on site?

Around Regensburg, yes. The first conversation and the handover at the end are best done at your place — with a website it helps to look at it together rather than trade screenshots. The work in between happens remotely, which keeps travel time off your invoice. Further away works just as well, entirely by video and phone.

What does it cost to make a website findable?

It starts with a free quick check: the three biggest problems as a short video. The audit costs a fixed €790 and names the causes, the scope and a fixed price for the work. What the work costs depends on how much legacy sits in the system — one completed project of this kind took roughly 50 hours across twelve stages. Commission it within four weeks and the audit is credited.

Do you also build new websites?

Yes, when the old one cannot be saved or simply looks dated. Before anything is built, you see the home page as a clickable design draft in two directions. The design draft costs €590 fixed and is credited if you commission the work within four weeks. Building a typical site with around five pages starts from €3,500, including a move that keeps old addresses working so Google loses nothing.

Why is my SEO plugin not doing anything?

The most common cause in practice: a second plugin is working against it. When two SEO plugins are active at once, one controls robots.txt, the sitemap and the meta tags while the other emits nothing — so everything you maintain in the backend never reaches the page. Other frequent causes are bloated markup from page builders and subpages that are copies of one another.

What is GEO and do I need it?

GEO refers to being found by answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini. They preferentially cite pages that are clearly structured, answer concrete questions up front, and describe in machine-readable form who you are. The work largely overlaps with classic SEO — so it comes along anyway when the job is done properly.

Do you maintain the site afterwards?

If you want me to, yes. A clean handover is just as explicitly available: you receive documentation with a technical reference for every setting and separate task lists. A website only its developer understands is a dependency, not a result.

Afterwards: Maintenance & Operations from €99 / month

Custom software

A web application or app for your problem — and no abandonment afterwards. I build from concept through to production: payments, user accounts, protected content, integrations, and all the way into the Play Store when needed. Whether it becomes web or app is the first thing we settle.

Build from

€6,000

Scoping €490 · credited later

How it runs

  1. Scoping: test the riskiest assumption first — and settle whether this really needs an app
  2. Record decisions in writing, with the alternatives and the reasoning
  3. Ship in stages, each one runnable and acceptable on its own
  4. Take it live: deployment, TLS, backups, monitoring — for apps including store review
  5. Keep running it or hand it over cleanly — your call, not mine

Who it's for

Independent professionals and small businesses whose requirement no off-the-shelf product covers, and who don't want to hire a second contractor just to keep it running.

Common questions

What does a custom web application or app cost?

The build starts at €6,000. An app usually costs more because of everything around it: store accounts, review processes, privacy declarations, signing and updates after every operating system release. A closer figure comes out of scoping, which costs a fixed €490 and is credited if you commission the build within four weeks.

What happens during scoping?

We work out which assumption is riskiest and test it first. The most expensive mistake is not a high price but six months of work in the wrong direction. At the end you have it in writing: what gets built, what doesn't, web or app, and a fixed price for the first stage.

Do I even need an app?

Often not. If your users should reach the application through a link without installing anything, the web is almost always the better route — instantly reachable, no store review, no second codebase. An app pays off with genuine offline needs, hardware access such as camera or sensors, push notifications, or when an icon on the home screen is part of the product.

Why not use an existing platform or a site builder?

If an off-the-shelf product covers your requirement, you should use it — and I will tell you so. Custom development pays off when the fit is what matters: your own workflows, your own data ownership, integrations a builder cannot offer, or per-user running costs that become uncomfortable as you grow.

Who runs the application after launch?

By default I do, from €99 a month. Seven systems currently run under my responsibility, with automated deployments, backups and monitoring. If you want to run it yourself, that is planned for and documented — there is no lock-in.

Flutter or native?

Flutter when both platforms need serving and the interface is the bulk of the work — one codebase instead of two. Native when deep platform integration or maximum performance in specific cases matters. I decide based on your case and write down the reasoning.

How do you handle GDPR and payments?

As part of the build, not as an afterthought: deletion paths for user data from the start, data processing agreements with the providers actually used, EU hosting where possible, and payment handling through an established provider rather than a home-grown solution.

Afterwards: Maintenance & Operations from €99 / month

Maintenance & Operations

What has been built has to keep running. I operate the systems I built: updates, backups with restore tests, monitoring and availability — so that you are not the one who notices something is broken.

Running it from

€99 a month

How it runs

  1. Handover into operations: access, backups and monitoring set up and rehearsed once
  2. Ongoing: security updates for the operating system, containers and dependencies
  3. Backups daily and off-site — with regular restore tests, otherwise they are hopes
  4. Monitoring from outside: an outage reaches me, not your customer
  5. One hour a month for small things included: change a text, swap an image, adjust a price

Already running at

Who it's for

Clients whose system runs and should keep running without anyone in the business having to think about it. Applies to systems I built — operating unfamiliar code would be a risk that cannot honestly be priced as a flat fee.

Common questions

What does operating a system cost?

From €99 a month, roughly €1,190 a year. That covers updates, backups, monitoring, response in case of failure and one hour for small changes. Larger systems with more services cost more; what yours costs is settled before you commission anything.

Do I even need this? The site runs fine.

It runs until it doesn't, and nobody gets to choose when. An expired certificate turns your site into a browser warning. An unpatched security hole is the usual route by which WordPress sites start serving someone else's content. And a backup that has never been restored is not a backup. These are not rare cases — they are the three most common ones.

What happens if something does go down?

Monitoring tells me, usually before you notice, and I deal with it. On working days I respond the same day. What I do not promise is round-the-clock response times — I am a sole proprietor, not an on-call rota. Anyone who needs that needs a different provider, and I would rather say so up front.

Does this tie me to you?

No. Cancellable monthly, no notice period, no reason required. The credentials are yours anyway and the documentation is handed over at the end of the project. An operations contract that is only kept because of the contract is not one I want to run.

Do you take over systems built by someone else?

Usually not at a flat rate. With unfamiliar code nobody knows in advance what is inside — what I cannot assess, I cannot honestly price as a flat fee. An audit as a first step is possible: after it, what operations would cost, and whether it makes sense, is settled.

Final prices, no VAT charged (§ 19 UStG).