Your Helsinki Dev Team Just Hit a Next.js Hiring Wall

No. Our studios are in London (HQ) and Los Angeles. We work with Helsinki clients through remote delivery -- which, honestly, is how most of the Finnish tech scene operates anyway. The GMT-to-EET offset is only two hours, so we share a large chunk of the working day. We run live sessions midday EET and handle async handoffs via Slack, Linear, and Loom. We've shipped multiple projects for Helsinki-based teams this way and the cadence works well.

London is two hours behind Helsinki. Our London team starts at 9 AM GMT, which is 11 AM EET. From 11 AM to 5 PM your time, we're fully synchronous -- that's six hours of overlap daily. We schedule pairing sessions, architecture reviews, and sprint demos in that window. Morning hours EET are covered by async standup posts your team can review when they start. If something urgent comes up outside overlap, our LA team picks it up during their working hours.

That's the most common setup. We embed alongside your in-house engineers -- shared repo, shared Linear board, same PR review process. We write the same TypeScript conventions your team uses (or we establish them together in week one). The goal is that when we step back, your team owns the codebase without a translation layer. We've worked with Finnish engineering teams before and the culture fit is straightforward: direct communication, high code quality expectations, minimal meetings.

Helsinki gaming studios need player-facing portals, dashboards, and marketing sites that load fast globally. Next.js on Vercel's edge network handles that. Supabase gives you Postgres with real-time subscriptions -- useful for live leaderboards, player state, and in-game event tracking. For SaaS, the combo is equally strong: server components for data-dense admin panels, Supabase auth with row-level security for multi-tenant setups, and ISR for marketing pages that need to rank. It's a stack that scales from MVP to millions of users without re-platforming.

Projects range from €10K for a focused MVP or migration to €180K for a full product build with backend, auth, real-time features, and performance engineering. Most Helsinki SaaS and gaming projects we've scoped land between €30K and €90K. We quote fixed-scope after the architecture phase, so there are no surprises. We invoice in EUR for EU clients.

We set up the i18n architecture -- Next.js has solid built-in support for locale routing, and we configure next-intl or a similar library for translation management. We don't do Finnish translation ourselves (we'd butcher it), but we build the system so your team or a localisation partner can manage fi/en/sv content through a CMS or translation files. We've handled Nordic locale setups before, including Finnish and Swedish variants.