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Next.js product and web development

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Our published Next.js work includes Zing Coach’s website rebuild, This is HCD’s community platform, Appster’s catalogue and Miray Yapım’s bilingual site. The cases establish delivered scope; a portfolio record does not establish that every historical product is still live. Use the actual content and application workflows to decide what belongs in a new build.

This page covers why we pick Next.js, when we deliberately do not, and what actually consumes time on a Next.js project. It is not marketing copy, it is the information you need in order to make the call.

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published portfolio projects
5+
years building for production
12
countries the work runs in
100%
of code read by a senior engineer
1 day
to hear back, from the engineer

Where it actually makes a difference

Appster’s case describes prerendered catalogue destinations alongside semantic search and administration. This is HCD combines editorial content, courses and member activity. These are examples of connected content and application scope; they do not document one rendering mode for every page. For your product, identify public content, account-only workflows and how publishing updates should reach each surface.

When we do not choose Next.js

For a single promotional page, Next.js can be more weight than the job needs, and a static generator asks for less maintenance. If nobody on your team knows React and nobody is lined up to take the work over, the codebase freezes the moment we hand it off. And if you are building something heavily real time, the decision that matters is not Next.js at all, it is the socket and state architecture sitting behind it. We treated that as a separate problem on TrendinChat.

What server components actually cost

Server components simplify data fetching and complicate client-side state. Form state, optimistic updates and browser-only libraries all force you to draw the boundary in the right place. If you do not design that boundary up front, a client directive creeps into every component and the benefit you expected from server components quietly disappears. We settle this split at the start of the project, alongside the data model, rather than discovering it halfway through the build when the shape of the code is already fixed.

In migrations, redirects come first

Zing Coach’s case records a complete Webflow-to-Next.js website rebuild across more than 20 pages. It does not document individual redirect execution or a measured search-traffic outcome. For a new migration, inventory existing paths and metadata, agree mappings for changed URLs and test representative pages before release. Define monitoring and rollback rather than inferring a result from the framework.

Industry examples for this service

Start with the task you need to improve. These pages connect a published delivery example to discovery questions for a new engagement.

Employee-benefits assessment software

For US employee-benefits providers separating workplace-program access, private assessment responses and an explicitly scoped sponsor report.

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Grant opportunity directory software

For US nonprofit networks and funding-information publishers maintaining sourced grant opportunities, reviewed status changes and search results aligned with the published catalog.

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Ithaca, New York · Research-publisher discussion widgets

For Ithaca research publishers placing reader questions beside specific figure panels and retaining explicit reference states when published figures change.

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Fairbanks, Alaska · Public-radio website migration

For Fairbanks public-radio teams migrating program and episode pages while preserving reviewed URL destinations and separate audio or feed references.

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Pendleton, Oregon · Visiting-artist course portals

For Pendleton arts-education teams connecting visiting-instructor course editing, reviewed recordings and learner access through explicit role periods.

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Mankato, Minnesota · Research-demo publishing platforms

For Mankato research-product teams publishing reviewed interactive demos with explicit prototype revisions, approved input references and public release context.

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Concord, New Hampshire · Coworking company-membership checkout

For Concord coworking teams connecting company membership checkout, billing ownership and individual member-seat assignments with explicit confirmation states.

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Hilo, Hawaii · Conservation-project newsletter builders

For Hilo conservation teams composing project newsletters with approved images, source-linked update blocks and reviewed handoff to an existing email editor.

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Conway, Arkansas · Multi-location business directories

For Conway directory publishers connecting natural-language service requests to maintained company records and distinct branch-specific information.

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Kenosha, Wisconsin · Craft-kit companion apps

For Kenosha craft-kit publishers connecting physical kit editions to approved chaptered instructions and saved companion-app progress.

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Roswell, New Mexico · Exhibitor-document intake portals

For Roswell event teams collecting exhibitor documents with event-edition identity, source-linked draft extraction and staff review.

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Charlottesville, Virginia · Conference-session resource libraries

For Charlottesville conference teams maintaining session-resource libraries with edition-specific recordings, transcripts, slide decks and member bookmarks.

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Cape Coral, Florida · Boat-service intake portals

For Cape Coral boat-service teams collecting owner requests with distinct boat and engine records, component-specific attachments and staff-reviewed intake states.

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Sioux City, Iowa · Credit-union public website migration

For Sioux City credit-union teams migrating public service pages, branch locations and contact directories with reviewed URL continuity.

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Columbia, Missouri · Independent-school learning platforms

For Columbia, Missouri independent-school teams connecting shared course content, class-specific enrollment and approved lesson revisions.

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Huntsville, Alabama · Commercial property maintenance portals

For Huntsville commercial property teams connecting tenant requests, property and suite references, staff triage and contractor task assignments.

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Hattiesburg, Mississippi · Equipment-manual translation portals

For Hattiesburg equipment-software teams connecting source-manual editions, translated sections and explicit reviewer approval before publication.

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Stamford, Connecticut · Event-vendor discovery platforms

For Stamford event-platform teams connecting an event brief, maintained vendor specialties and a reviewed enquiry shortlist without implying confirmed availability.

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Longmont, Colorado · Arts-publisher discussion widgets

For Longmont arts publishers connecting article identity, contextual discussion and deliberate widget configuration across publication changes.

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Lubbock, Texas · Theater rehearsal coordination software

For Lubbock theater teams connecting production membership, session-specific cast and crew calls, rehearsal tasks and explicit attendance responses.

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Peoria, Illinois · Apprenticeship intake portals

For Peoria apprenticeship-program teams connecting applicant track selection, saved questionnaire editions and a clear staff-review handoff.

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Roanoke, Virginia · Nonprofit donor newsletter builders

For Roanoke nonprofits preparing donor newsletters from approved program stories and reporting editions within a chosen email workflow.

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Provo, Utah · Hackathon demo publishing platforms

For Provo hackathon organizers connecting team-owned demo projects, a selected judging edition and deliberate public gallery publication.

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Medford, Oregon · Independent-bookstore website migration

For Medford independent bookstores moving an existing website while preserving book-edition destinations, author pages and event links.

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Athens, Ohio · Heritage scavenger-hunt companions

For Athens, Ohio heritage-experience teams connecting approved clue editions, optional hint reveals and saved progress in a physical-to-digital companion.

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Rapid City, South Dakota · Photography-course member portals

For Rapid City photography-course teams connecting member lessons, submitted image editions and instructor feedback without conflating viewing progress with assessment.

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St. George, Utah · Recreation membership checkout

For St. George recreation-product teams connecting approved membership plans, account ownership and confirmed checkout state while keeping class booking explicit.

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Redmond, Washington · Bicycle-repair intake portals

For Redmond bicycle-service teams connecting staged repair inquiries to staff-authored estimate editions and explicit customer responses.

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Rutland, Vermont · Community-radio program archives

For Rutland community-radio teams connecting program identities, planned schedule slots and approved recording editions in a maintained audio archive.

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Wilmington, North Carolina · Bookstore event-newsletter tools

For Wilmington bookstore teams designing event newsletters with explicit event revisions and a deliberate handoff to their existing email platform.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa · Coworking-space discovery platforms

For Cedar Rapids coworking-directory teams connecting plain-language workspace preferences to maintained space records and explicit amenity filters.

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Mobile, Alabama · Dog-daycare intake software

For Mobile dog-daycare teams keeping household contacts, separate pet profiles and staff follow-up clear in a staged intake form.

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Salem, Oregon · Library reading-challenge portals

For Salem library teams separating reader profiles, campaign-specific reading entries and staff-reviewed challenge progress.

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Worcester, Massachusetts · Coding-workshop demo publishing

For Worcester coding-workshop teams connecting learner project drafts, instructor review and an approved public demo gallery.

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Bangor, Maine · Reader subscription software

For Bangor publishers connecting a selected reader subscription to its account, checkout status and agreed access policy.

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Erie, Pennsylvania · Trade-school website migration

For Erie trade-school teams moving a Webflow website to Next.js while preserving approved program, campus and inquiry relationships.

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Lawrence, Kansas · Oral-history audio publishing

For Lawrence archive and cultural-publishing teams connecting approved source excerpts to reviewed oral-history audio editions and maintained public destinations.

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Lexington, Kentucky · Riding-school lesson intake

For Lexington riding-school teams connecting lesson goals, self-described experience and scheduling preferences to a reviewed staff inquiry.

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Bismarck, North Dakota · Construction client newsletter tools

For Bismarck construction-software teams connecting approved project updates to a client newsletter and the intended recipient context in an existing email platform.

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Akron, Ohio · Supplier-document review software

For Akron industrial-software teams connecting supplier document versions, extracted fields and source references to a reviewed internal record.

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Flagstaff, Arizona · Sports-club event coordination

For Flagstaff sports-club teams connecting individual practices and club events to their own participant responses, tasks and clearly scoped series changes.

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Bellingham, Washington · Professional mentor directories

For Bellingham professional communities connecting approved mentor profiles, inquiry preferences and a clearly identified contact handoff.

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Ventura, California · Self-guided visitor story apps

For Ventura visitor-experience teams connecting printed stop references to approved mobile story content and maintained public destinations.

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Lakewood, Ohio · Local-news discussion platforms

For Lakewood local-news publishers connecting reader contributions to a stable article reference through editorial corrections and discussion review.

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Athens, Georgia · Music-school student portals

For Athens, Georgia music-school teams connecting assigned learning materials, saved progress and teacher-owned lesson revisions in a student portal.

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Olympia, Washington · Grant-program intake questionnaires

For Olympia grant-program teams developing editable intake questionnaires with applicant answer review and a clear handoff to authorized staff.

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Naples, Florida · Real estate newsletter tools

For Naples real estate software teams developing newsletter tools that connect approved property blocks to a reviewed transfer into an existing email platform.

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Durham, North Carolina · Recruitment catalogue discovery

For Durham recruitment-platform teams helping visitors discover published opportunities through natural-language search and explicit catalogue filters.

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Iowa City, Iowa · Research document review tools

For Iowa City research-software teams connecting document processing to source-aware review, explicit job states and deliberate output export.

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Santa Rosa, California · Agency prototype publishing tools

For Santa Rosa agencies developing prototype publishing tools that keep project identity, preview revisions and client-review destinations understandable.

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Tallahassee, Florida · Association learning portals

For Tallahassee trade and professional associations connecting maintained learning resources to member bookmarks, course progress and editorial ownership.

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Savannah, Georgia · Nonprofit volunteer workspaces

For Savannah nonprofits developing volunteer event workspaces that connect responsibilities, participant access and coordinator-reviewed changes.

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Santa Fe, New Mexico · Museum visitor companions

For Santa Fe museum and cultural-experience teams developing a chaptered visitor companion with curator-approved media and a clear return journey.

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Dayton, Ohio · Manufacturing learning portals

For Dayton manufacturing teams developing an internal learning portal with approved lessons, role-based access and explicit progress behavior when content changes.

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New Haven, Connecticut · Live learning schedules

For New Haven learning-membership teams connecting scheduled events, authorized live-session access and the later recording destination.

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Las Vegas, Nevada · Shared event cost workspaces

For Las Vegas event-software teams keeping shared cost records, participant context and corrections within the intended event workspace.

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Charleston, South Carolina · Publisher widget dashboards

For Charleston, South Carolina publisher-tool teams connecting dashboard style, settings and announcements to an installed website widget.

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Grand Rapids, Michigan · Assessment administration

For Grand Rapids assessment-product teams giving authorized editors a practical workflow for questionnaire and scoring-rule changes.

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Spokane, Washington · Natural-language app-directory search

For Spokane software-directory teams helping visitors refine a natural-language request and understand the catalogue results it returns.

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Cleveland, Ohio · Multilingual clinical-document review tools

For Cleveland healthcare product teams connecting a translated document and structured report to the source a professional needs to review.

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Madison, Wisconsin · Password-manager subscription journeys

For Madison password-manager teams carrying the intended account and selected subscription plan from pricing into checkout and back to the product.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma · Professional learning-community forums

For Tulsa professional-learning teams connecting forum composition, member mentions and the intended discussion destination.

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Richmond, Virginia · Podcast community saved-content tools

For Richmond podcast and learning communities connecting episode discovery to a member's personal saved-content journey.

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Anchorage, Alaska · Mobile event-task coordination

For Anchorage event-software teams keeping a participant's mobile task update connected to the organizer's shared event plan.

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota · Game companion device handoffs

For Sioux Falls game publishers carrying one chaptered web-companion session into an intentional phone-only story step.

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Greenville, South Carolina · Podcast editorial platforms

For Greenville podcast publishers maintaining episode destinations and approved transcripts through recurring editorial corrections.

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Charleston, West Virginia · Embedded church newsletter composers

For Charleston, West Virginia church teams preserving composed newsletter content as it moves into an existing email editor.

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Jackson, Mississippi · Clinical document processing operations

For Jackson healthcare product teams giving operators a clear recovery path when document extraction or report processing stops.

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Louisville, Kentucky · AI prototype publishing dashboards

For Louisville AI-tool teams giving published prototypes an owned project dashboard, clear URLs and domain-connection states.

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Manchester, New Hampshire · Membership course platforms

For Manchester education and membership teams coordinating course publication, lesson order and existing learner completion.

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Burlington, Vermont · Professional community directories

For Burlington professional and learning communities building searchable member profiles with an explicit moderation workflow.

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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma · Financial-wellness assessment journeys

For Oklahoma City financial-wellness product teams improving multi-step questionnaires, answer review and result delivery.

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Hartford, Connecticut · Editorial learning-audio platforms

For Hartford education publishers turning approved podcast segments into curated learning-audio journeys with a background processing workflow.

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Tampa, Florida · Fitness marketing website migration

For Tampa fitness and wellness brands considering a Webflow-to-Next.js marketing website migration.

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Omaha, Nebraska · Password-manager onboarding

For Omaha password-manager product teams improving the journey from product explanation to browser installation and account entry.

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Providence, Rhode Island · Event planning software

For Providence event-software teams modernizing an active planning interface while keeping an established backend.

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Reno, Nevada · Physical-game storefronts and companions

For Reno physical-game publishers connecting product presentation, storefront purchase and a digital companion's entry journey.

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Columbus, Ohio · AI directory publishing and administration

For Columbus AI-directory publishers giving editors a clear path from approved app records to public pages and the search index.

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin · Church newsletter editorial tools

For Milwaukee church teams improving newsletter design and editorial handoff while their existing management platform retains contacts and sending.

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Seattle, Washington · Multilingual learning communities

For Seattle learning communities planning multiple content languages, right-to-left interfaces and a shared membership experience.

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Nashville, Tennessee · Podcast-led learning platforms

For Nashville podcast publishers turning an episode archive and transcripts into curated learning journeys with member progress.

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Washington, DC · Browser companions and publisher tools

For Washington, DC digital publishers adding a companion browser interface or embeddable reader tool with a publisher-managed dashboard.

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Sacramento, California · Clinical document processing products

For Sacramento healthcare product teams connecting mixed-format document intake, processing status and professional review in one application.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Financial-wellness assessment products

For Philadelphia financial-wellness teams defining the approved questions, calculation examples and participant-facing result before expanding administration or integrations.

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Minnesota · Password-manager product development

For Minnesota password-manager teams connecting a product website, account application, browser extensions and subscription plans.

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Raleigh, North Carolina · Professional learning memberships

For Raleigh professional-learning teams bringing paid courses, session access and member discussion into one membership product.

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Phoenix, Arizona · Collaborative event software

For Phoenix event-software teams connecting organizers, participants, shared tasks and costs in a collaborative workspace.

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Delivered work in detail

Appster: AI app discovery with a full stack content platform

Natural-language discovery across a catalogue of more than 2,700 apps, with semantic vector search, administration and programmatic SEO pages.

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Zing Coach: rebuilding a Webflow website in Next.js

A complete Webflow-to-Next.js website rebuild covering more than 20 pages for a fitness coaching product.

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Poppin: prediction markets embedded into any webpage

A browser extension that brings Polymarket and Kalshi prediction markets onto the page being read, with trading, tracking and discussion alongside a publisher dashboard.

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ChurchBee: a newsletter builder inside church management systems

A Chrome extension that gives churches a drag-and-drop newsletter designer inside the church management system they already use, with flat pricing and BeeFree integration.

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This is HCD: a complete remake of a design community platform

A Next.js platform for a Human-Centered Design podcast and community, combining episodes, free courses, learning journeys and a global designer directory with Supabase and Sanity.

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MoneyCare: a privacy-first financial health assessment

A Next.js and Supabase platform that turns a short questionnaire into a Financial Health Score and a personalised improvement roadmap, without bank linking or credit checks.

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design.computer: publishing AI-generated code in one click

A Chrome extension, Next.js dashboard and Cloudflare Workers backend that turn code from an AI chat into a live URL, with custom domains and administration.

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Murder in Prague: a Shopify storefront and a Next.js game app

A Shopify storefront that sells a physical detective kit, paired with a Next.js companion app where buyers play a chaptered murder mystery with saved progress.

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Lizzt: a Next.js rebuild of a group event planning app

A Next.js and TypeScript rebuild of a Dutch event planning app, with shared tasks, items, costs, chat and AI-assisted event setup on an existing Supabase backend.

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MedGuide: AI clinical summaries from patient records

A Next.js application and document pipeline that turn patient records in any format or language into structured clinical summaries, using Gemini for extraction.

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PicKey: a visual password manager across web, browser and billing

A password manager where points chosen in a person's own photographs replace the master password, delivered through a Next.js marketing site, web app, browser extensions and Stripe subscriptions.

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Club 2030: a Hebrew membership platform for automation and AI learning

A right-to-left Next.js and Supabase membership product combining structured courses, recorded tutorials, weekly live sessions and a professional forum for people learning automation and no-code tools.

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Questions

The things people ask before starting.

How long does moving our site to Next.js take?

It depends on page count and where the content will live after the move. We put scope in writing after a discovery call. Work runs as AI-accelerated development, starting from $2,000 per month, with scope agreed in writing.

Can we update the content ourselves?

Yes. When content is going to change regularly, we set up a headless CMS such as Sanity. This is HCD and Miray Yapım both work this way, so text and images can be updated without pulling an engineer into the process.

Is Next.js genuinely an SEO advantage?

The advantage is server-rendered HTML and full control over your meta structure. On its own it does not produce rankings. Content, internal linking and page speed matter just as much, so we build those into the project rather than treating them as an afterthought.

Do we have to use Vercel?

Choose deployment against the required runtime, storage, publishing and operating responsibilities. Verify a representative workflow on the intended target before agreeing the release. A framework name alone does not establish that different hosting choices will behave identically.

How it starts

What happens after you write to us.

  1. 01

    You describe the product

    One paragraph on what you are building, roughly when you need it, and who it is for. No brief, no form with fifteen fields.

  2. 02

    You get a reply within a day

    From the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team. If we are not the right fit we say so, and where possible we point you somewhere better.

  3. 03

    You get a scoped plan

    Scope, price and timeline in writing before anything is committed. You decide with the numbers in front of you.

No long contract to begin, no lock-in to our tooling, and the code is yours from the first commit.

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Looking for an engineering partner for the long haul?

A short note about the product, the timeline and who it is for is enough to start. You will hear back from the engineer who would do the work, not a sales team.

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