Your outsourced dev department

You don't need
to hire a developer.
You need a Nerd.

Websites, apps, automation, and AI — built and maintained by your own on-call nerd. One flat monthly fee, unlimited requests, and absolutely zero awkward job interviews.

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retainer.js
// your dev team, on demand
const nerd = hire();
nerd.build('anything');
// status: shipping ✓
The Nerd, coding at a laptop
$4,499/mo

One flat fee. No hourly billing, ever.

Unlimited

Requests in your queue. One built at a time.

Days, not quarters

Most requests ship in a matter of days.

Cancel anytime

Month to month. We'll still like you.

What your nerd builds

One retainer.
Basically everything.

If it runs on code, your nerd can build it, connect it, automate it, or fix it. Here's the short list.

Custom Websites

Fast, modern sites that convert — not just sit there looking pretty.

Mobile Apps

iOS & Android apps your customers actually keep on the home screen.

Internal Business Software

Retire the duct-taped spreadsheets. Get tools built for how you work.

Customer Portals

A slick place for clients to log in, pay, and help themselves.

Employee Dashboards

Every number your team needs, on one clean screen.

AI Automation

Put the boring, repetitive stuff on autopilot — and keep it there.

Stripe & Payments

Get paid smoothly — cards, subscriptions, invoices, the works.

API Integrations

Finally get your tools to talk to each other. Nicely.

Process Automation

Turn "we do it manually" into "it just happens."

Maintenance & Improvements

We don't ghost after launch. Your nerd sticks around.

How it works

Four steps.
Zero headaches.

01

Subscribe

Pick your plan and get instant access to your own request board.

02

Request

Add as many requests as you like. We build them one at a time.

03

We build

Your nerd gets to work and sends updates as things ship.

04

Review & repeat

Love it? Queue the next one. Tweaks? Send it back. Forever.

The Nerd, automating a workflow
The one-at-a-time rule

One request
at a time.

Stack up as many requests as you want — your queue is bottomless. But your nerd works them one at a time, top to bottom. That means every request gets full, undivided focus instead of five half-finished builds.

Finish one, the next starts automatically. Reprioritize the queue anytime — just drag it to the top.

Unlimited queue Reorder anytime Zero context-switching
Your queue 4 requests
In progress
Customer portal redesign
02Stripe subscription billing
03Weekly sales dashboard
04Onboarding email automation
The math

Do the nerdy math

The old way
Hiring in-house
  • $150k+ salary, plus benefits & taxes
  • Weeks of hiring & onboarding
  • Sick days, vacations, turnover
  • One person, one skill set
Better
The nerd way
Nerd On Retainer
  • $4,499/mo flat — that's it
  • Start this week, not next quarter
  • Always on, never out of office
  • Full-stack, AI & design in one
Proven work

Don't take our word for it.

Real products, really shipped — from race-day operations software to a live multiplayer arena. If your nerd built these, imagine what they'll build for you.

Speed Skate Meet — inline speed skating meet software
Speed Skate Meet
All-in-one software for inline speed skating meets — registration, race builders, block scheduling, live scoring, check-in, and race-day operations.
RegistrationLive scoringSchedulingRace-day ops
Visit speedskatemeet.com
Speed Skate League — find a roller speed skating league near you
Speed Skate League
The find-a-league platform for roller speed skating — search by city or ZIP, then schedules, live results, rankings, and a member portal.
Location searchResults & rankingsMember portal
Visit speedskateleague.com
Cube Battle Live — real-time multiplayer arena for speedcubers
Cube Battle Live
A real-time multiplayer arena for speedcubers — race friends live on identical scrambles, climb ranked leaderboards, run tournaments, and train.
Real-time multiplayerLeaderboardsTournamentsLive
Visit cubebattlelive.com
Pricing

One plan.
Everything included.

No tiers to decode, no hourly billing to dread. Just one nerd and one number.

The Retainer
$4,499/month

Pause or cancel anytime. Your nerd, your queue, your call.

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No contracts. No setup fees. No nonsense.
What's included
  • Unlimited requests in your queue
  • One active request at a time
  • Websites, apps, software, AI & automation
  • Unlimited users and stakeholders
  • Fast, days-not-quarters turnarounds
  • Ongoing maintenance & improvements
  • Pause or cancel anytime

Need two things built at once? Add a second active request for +$2,000/mo.

FAQ

Questions? Same.

You can stack up as many requests as you want in your queue. Your nerd focuses on one at a time so it actually gets done well — then moves straight to the next. Want two running in parallel? Add a second active request as an add-on.
Most individual requests are turned around in a few days. Bigger builds (a full app, say) are broken into requests so you see steady progress instead of waiting months for a big reveal.
Send it back. Revisions are unlimited and part of the deal — we'll keep refining until it's right. No change-order invoices, no drama.
Nope. Request as much as you'd like. Since we work through one at a time, your queue is effectively bottomless — you're only limited by how fast you can dream stuff up.
You do. Everything we build for you is yours — full source, full ownership, delivered to your repositories.
Absolutely. If you run out of requests for a bit, pause your plan and pick up right where you left off. You're billed monthly, never locked in.
That's fine too. Subscribe, get it built, and cancel when you're happy. But most folks find one more thing they want built... and then another.

Ready to keep a
nerd on retainer?

Your future dev team is one click away — and it runs entirely on coffee. Start today, ship this week.

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The Nerd with a coffee