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Web App Development. From prototype in three days to production at scale.

Web app development for small businesses and founders. We build custom web apps on Next.js, React, and TypeScript, from clickable prototype to production scale.

Timeline
8 to 16 weeks
Stack
Next.js, TS
DB
Postgres
Status
Open

◆ The short answer

Web app development is the work of building a custom browser-based application: dashboards, internal tools, customer portals, marketplaces, and SaaS. A typical web app takes eight to sixteen weeks and starts at mid five figures. Thinkmakr builds on Next.js, TypeScript, and Postgres so the app is fast to ship and easy to operate.

◆ TL;DR

  • Custom build, no low-code traps.
  • TypeScript end to end so refactors are safe.
  • Auth, payments, and analytics included, not extra.
  • Built for ten-year maintainability.

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◆ How we build it

Three phases. Three demos. One live product.

01

Discover

A short discovery phase. We frame the riskiest assumption first, sketch the user, and agree on what we are actually shipping. By the end you have a written brief, a clickable prototype, and a fixed scope you can sign off.

02

Build

Iterative build cycles with weekly demos. Engineering joins at the design table from day one, so design and code move together. Feature flags on anything risky. Production observability built in from the first commit.

03

Launch and scale

Soft launch to a closed beta. Telemetry on every flow. Then a coordinated public launch and the unglamorous scaling work: auth, queue depth, database read replicas. We stay in the trenches after launch, not before it.

◆ What you get

Concrete deliverables.

Every engagement produces artifacts you can hand off, build on, or hold us accountable to. No abstract decks.

  • A live web app on a domain you own
  • Auth, billing, and admin tools out of the box
  • A Postgres database with migrations and backups
  • CI/CD with preview environments per pull request
  • Observability with logs, metrics, and traces
  • A handoff doc and runbook for ongoing operations

◆ Stack

How we build it.

Next.js App Router by default. TypeScript end to end. Postgres via Supabase or Neon. Stripe for billing. Vercel or Railway for infra. We change tools when the problem genuinely demands it, not because something is trending.

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Postgres
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • Vercel
  • Railway
  • PostHog

◆ Why Thinkmakr

Socialmakr is a web app we run ourselves. It handles auth, multi-platform publishing, scheduling, billing, and analytics across six social networks. The patterns we use to ship and operate it are the patterns we bring to your project.

◆ How we work

  • No offshoring. The team that scopes the work ships the work.
  • Your code, your repo, from day one. Full ownership at handoff.
  • Fixed milestones and written proposals. No surprise invoices.
  • Reviewable PRs. You can read every line before it ships.
  • We tell you if we are the wrong fit and recommend who is.

◆ Receipts

Live products that prove the studio works.

The strongest argument we can make is the software we already ship.

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◆ Common questions

Things people ask before they brief us.

How much does a custom web app cost?

A small-business web app from Thinkmakr typically ranges from mid five figures for an MVP to low six figures for a full launch with billing, admin tools, and integrations. See /pricing for ranges.

How long does it take to build a web app?

Eight to sixteen weeks for a typical small-business web app. The first three days produce a clickable prototype so you can see and feel the product before the build starts.

Can you build internal tools or admin dashboards?

Yes. We routinely build internal tools and admin dashboards. They follow the same stack and patterns as customer-facing web apps.

Do you support real-time features?

Yes. We use Supabase Realtime, websockets, or server-sent events depending on the use case. Live cursors, chat, and live dashboards are common.

Will the web app scale?

It will scale to the traffic you have. We design for the next ten times your current load, not the next ten thousand. When the load grows, we revisit the architecture together.

◆ Pairs with

Web App Development usually pairs with our Engineering service.

Production-grade builds and the runbook to operate them.

Read the Engineering playbook

◆ Let's talk

Have an idea?

Let's see if we can make it real together.

Bring your idea to life

Or email us at hello@thinkmakr.com