The working app
A web, mobile or installable app, which can live on a phone home screen, built against your requirements rather than a one-size-fits-all starter kit.
Hire a builder
You describe it,
You describe it,
you receive
a finished app
Done-for-you builds for small businesses and solo founders. No technical team needed on your end, and no learning curve. You get a working product handed over ready to use, with the code yours to keep.
The service
- Small projects
- $500 to $1,000
- Standard projects
- $2,000 to $8,000
- Scope agreed
- Before you commit
- Code ownership
- Yours
- Reply within
- 1 business day
01 · What you get
A finished product, not a starting point
What arrives is a working app, rather than a template you still have to configure or a prototype you still have to finish.
Everything needed to run it
A plain-language guide to using and maintaining it, plus a completed checklist confirming every feature you asked for actually works. The code is yours to keep, on infrastructure you control.
02 · The process
Five steps from rough idea to finished app
You stay out of the weeds. You see the result.
- 01
Intake
You fill out a short structured form describing what the app should do, who uses it, and what it needs to look like. One conversation clears up anything unclear, then work begins.
- 02
Spec
Before a line of code, you get a plain-language spec listing every screen and feature. You review it and confirm it matches what you had in mind.
- 03
Build
The app gets built against the agreed spec. You are not watching over a developer's shoulder, you are waiting for the finished thing.
- 04
Quality check
Every must-have feature is tested against a checklist before delivery. You receive the completed checklist alongside the app, so you can see exactly what was verified.
- 05
Handover
You receive the app, the usage guide and the checklist. The code is yours. If you want changes later you can hire anyone to make them.
03 · Who this suits
Best for one thing done well
If your idea is clear and scoped, this is built for you.
A local business owner
You need a booking form, a scheduling tool, a staff tracker or a customer-facing tool, and you do not want to spend months learning to build it.
A solo founder
You have a clear, scoped idea and want a real first version without hiring a development team to get there.
Anyone holding a $20,000 quote
You have been quoted by an agency and you suspect the scope does not justify the number.
This works best for apps that do one thing well: a booking form, a simple inventory tracker, a customer directory, a request queue. A complex multi-role platform integrating with five external systems is still possible, but it moves beyond standard scope and costs more. You will know that before you decide.
04 · Pricing
Scope-based, no surprises
Scope is defined together before any commitment. If your idea turns out larger than standard, you find out before you decide to proceed, not afterwards.
Small projects
$500 to $1,000
A small website or a single landing page. Clean, fast, mobile-ready, and everything needed to go live.
Standard projects
$2,000 to $8,000
Scope-dependent and confirmed in writing before any work begins.
05 · Who builds it
Design-led, intentionally small
This is run by Nick McInnis, a UX and service designer based in Squamish, BC, with eight years designing digital products and services, who has personally built and shipped apps to the App Store using AI-assisted workflows.
Most AI app services can generate code but cannot tell you whether the result is usable. Most freelance developers can build something functional but have never thought hard about whether a real person can figure it out in thirty seconds. The gap between those two is where this sits.
It is deliberately small. There is no team being scaled and no subscription being sold. The work is taken on selectively, for clients who can be worked with directly.
- Experience
- 8 years
- Projects shipped
- 40+
- Companies
- 12+
- Based in
- Squamish, BC
06 · Get in touch
Describe your idea
Even a rough description is enough to start. You get a reply within one business day with an honest read on whether it is a good fit, and a clear next step either way.
Or build it
yourself
If you would rather learn to make it than have it made, the twelve-week program teaches exactly this, and you keep the skill afterwards.
Either way
- Reply within
- 1 business day
- Code ownership
- Yours
- Based in
- Squamish, BC