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Keel Studio
Production-grade development, on subscription
12 followers
Production-grade development, on subscription
12 followers
Senior developers for Next.js, React, React Native, Laravel/PHP and WordPress — on a flat monthly subscription. No agency, no full-time hire. Pause or cancel anytime.
I kept watching the same thing happen.
A founder would spend a weekend with Lovable or Claude Code, get something genuinely impressive running, show it to customers, and then hit a wall. The AI got them 80% of the way. But that last 20%, the auth that doesn't leak, the payments that reconcile, the deploy that doesn't collapse under real load, that part doesn't get vibe-coded. It gets built carefully, by someone who's done it before.
They'd either disappear into debugging for months (and stop talking to customers), hire an agency (and get a project manager in the middle and a surprise invoice), or try to hire a full-time senior dev (and lose four months to recruiting). None of those are great options for an early-stage founder.
So I packaged what I actually do senior development work, in Next.js, React, React Native, Laravel/PHP, and WordPress, into a flat monthly subscription you can pause or cancel anytime. No proposals. No timesheets. No ghost projects.
What surprised me building this: the "async, no meetings" part turned out to be the thing people respond to most. I assumed the price would be the thing. It's not. Founders are drowning in calendar and they just want someone to pick it up and ship it while they get back to selling.
The product itself is built on the same stack I sell — Next.js + Supabase, with a client portal where you submit requests, watch them move through the queue, and review work before it lands in your repo. Ate our own dog food from day one.
Happy to answer anything — about the model, what kinds of projects are a good fit, what isn't, or how the sprint works as a low-risk starting point. Ask away.
How does the flat monthly subscription pricing scale with the scope of work — like is there a cap on hours or tickets, or do bigger projects just fold into the same fee?
How does the pause feature work in practice — do you just freeze billing or does it actually hold your spot with the same developers when you resume later?
Solid concept for solo founders who need real Next.js or Laravel muscle without agency overhead. Curious how fast the response time actually is when you ping them with something urgent.
Paused a project last month to test it out and the React Native dev picked up my codebase faster than expected. Flat pricing is a nice change from the usual agency back-and-forth.