The code is yours from day one
Not mine with a copy for you. In your own repository, on your own account, where you add and remove people. I work in it as a guest. If we stop working together, you remove me and you have everything.
You are considering trusting part of how your company runs to one person. Then this is the question you ask yourself, even though almost nobody asks it out loud. The answer is here, so you do not have to.
I am one person. That has upsides — you always speak to whoever builds it — but it is also a risk, and waving that away would be dishonest. What I can do is make sure you are never tied to me.
Not mine with a copy for you. In your own repository, on your own account, where you add and remove people. I work in it as a guest. If we stop working together, you remove me and you have everything.
Your domain, your server, your database, your mail addresses. Invoices are in your company name. I have access for as long as you grant it, and not a minute longer. There is no switch at my end that stops your system.
Not for me, but for the developer who takes it over one day without ever having spoken to me. How it fits together, why certain choices were made, how to set it up and deploy it.
Laravel, React, MySQL. Boring, widely known, and there are thousands of developers in Flanders who can work with it. Had I built something of my own, you really would be stuck with me.
On projects above a certain size we agree upfront who takes over if I drop out — by name, with access that only becomes active when needed. So you know in advance who to call.
No contract that ties you down for years, no six-month notice, no fee to take your own data with you. If you would rather continue with someone else, I help with the handover and simply invoice those hours.
Because everyone thinks about it and nobody asks. Whoever does not ask but does doubt simply stops calling back — and then I never hear why. I would rather you read it here and judge for yourself.
A twenty-minute call. No sales pitch — we look at whether anything is worth automating. If not, I will tell you that too.