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Hire a Next.js Developer -- or Hand Us the Whole Project

You searched for a Next.js developer. What you probably need is a finished Next.js site -- shipped, designed, and ranking.

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4-8 weeks
Typical project timeline
Scoping to production launch
$8K-$35K
Fixed-price range
Locked before build starts
100%
Code ownership
Full repo and docs handed off
When should you hire a Next.js developer vs. hire an agency team?

If you already run an engineering team and need an extra pair of hands for ongoing capacity, hire a single Next.js developer through a marketplace like Toptal or Proxify -- staff augmentation fits that scenario well, and we will say so plainly. But if you have a defined project (a marketing site, a SaaS front-end, a content platform) and no one in-house to manage the build, hiring one contractor means you also become the project manager, the design director, the QA lead, and the SEO strategist. That is where we come in. We staff every project with a senior Next.js engineer, a designer, and a delivery lead. You get a fixed quote, a timeline measured in weeks not quarters, and a finished product -- App Router, React Server Components, Vercel deployment, Supabase or your preferred backend. Typical solo Next.js contractors bill $50-150/hr with no ceiling on total hours. Our fixed-price builds for scoped projects land between $8,000 and $35,000, depending on page count and complexity, with the final number locked before we write a line of code.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

You spend 15-30 hours interviewing and vetting Next.js freelancers before writing any code
Risk: At a founder's billing rate of $150-250/hr, that is $2,250-$7,500 in opportunity cost before the project even starts. Most teams repeat this cycle when the first hire does not work out.
A solo contractor delivers code but not design, SEO, or infrastructure decisions
Risk: You end up hiring 2-3 additional specialists or doing it yourself. The project timeline doubles, and the budget creeps past what a scoped agency build would have cost.
Hourly billing with no cap means the total cost is unknown until the project ships
Risk: We have seen 80-hour estimates balloon to 200+ hours once scope shifts and edge cases surface. At $100/hr that is a $12,000 surprise nobody budgeted for.
Your contractor disappears mid-project or takes another client's work as priority
Risk: Freelancer churn rates hover around 30% on projects longer than 8 weeks. Replacing them means re-onboarding and re-explaining decisions already made, adding 2-4 weeks of dead time.
No one on the team knows whether the Next.js architecture choices will hold up at scale
Risk: Wrong decisions on rendering strategy -- static vs. SSR vs. RSC -- compound into performance debt. Fixing it post-launch typically costs 40-60% of the original build budget.
The finished site launches with zero SEO structure, missing metadata, and no Core Web Vitals baseline
Risk: A site that scores poorly on LCP and CLS from day one can take 3-6 months to recover in search rankings. That is 3-6 months of traffic you paid to build for but never received.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Get a fixed-price quote before any code is written -- scope locked, no hourly surprises

We define pages, integrations, and deliverables in a 2-3 day scoping sprint. You approve the number, we build to it. Our scoped projects have come in within 5% of the original quote on 90%+ of builds.

Ship with a full delivery team: senior Next.js engineer, designer, and project lead

Instead of managing a solo contractor, you get a team that handles architecture, UI, QA, and deployment. You review work weekly and approve milestones -- that is the extent of your project management burden.

Build on App Router and React Server Components from day one -- no legacy patterns

Every project uses the current Next.js App Router with RSC where it makes sense, deployed on Vercel or your preferred host. No pages-router rewrites six months from now.

Launch with production SEO: metadata, schema, sitemap, and a Core Web Vitals baseline under 2.5s LCP

We configure technical SEO as part of the build, not as an afterthought. Our last 12 launches averaged 1.8s LCP on mobile and passed all three Core Web Vitals thresholds on launch day.

Integrate Supabase, Stripe, or your existing backend during the build -- not as a follow-up project

Auth, payments, CMS, and database connections are scoped and delivered inside the same fixed quote. No surprise integration invoices after the site is supposedly done.

Hand off a documented, deployable codebase you own 100% -- no vendor lock-in

You get the Git repo, the deployment pipeline, and a handoff document covering architecture decisions. If you want to bring development in-house after launch, you can do it the next day.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you already have a design system, a project manager, and ongoing work that will last 6+ months, staff augmentation makes more sense. A single senior contractor at $80-150/hr integrated into your existing team will be more cost-effective than an agency for continuous feature work.
Solo Next.js contractors typically bill $50-150/hr with no hour cap. A 400-hour project at $100/hr costs $40,000 with no design or SEO included. Our fixed-price builds for comparable scope run $8,000-$35,000 with design and SEO built in, and the total is locked upfront.
App Router, React Server Components, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and Vercel for hosting. For backend needs we typically use Supabase or connect to your existing API. We do not use the legacy Pages Router on new projects.
Yes. You own 100% of the code. We deliver a clean Git repo, CI/CD pipeline, and an architecture document. Your in-house team or a future contractor can pick it up without reverse-engineering anything.
Scoping takes 2-3 business days. We define every page, integration, and deliverable, then present a fixed quote. If the quote does not work for your budget, you have lost 2-3 days, not 2-3 months.
We offer monthly retainers starting at $2,500/month for post-launch iteration. If your needs grow to the point where a full-time developer makes sense, we will tell you that honestly and help with the transition.
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