I can sell the work. I cannot find anyone I trust to build it twice in a row.
What that gets you
A lot of this ships under an agency's name. Same person every month, so nobody re-learns your client's codebase from scratch.
A senior engineer on your team, without hiring one.
Web apps, mobile apps, AI systems, infrastructure, integrations. One active task at a time, worked until it is finished. No hourly billing, no scoping rounds, no hiring.
You send work the way you would to a colleague. It comes back built, tested and on staging, and then you send the next thing.
Founding rate, 3 seats
$3,995
$2,995/month
You keep $1,000 every month
- One active task, worked until it is finished
- As many tasks as you like in the queue
- Pause or cancel anytime, no notice period
- You own all the code, from the first commit
Small tasks come back within 48 hours once they go active
- 4.95
Codeable rating, out of 5
- 309
Projects delivered
- 92
Separate clients
- 10+
Years engineering
Why this exists
Three ways people end up here.
There is more technical work than we can absorb, and not enough to justify a $190,000 hire.
What that gets you
One engineer, available every month, at a number you can put in a budget. No recruiting, no notice period, no severance.
Our developer left and now nobody will touch the thing they built.
What that gets you
Inherited codebases are most of what I do. Security audits, rescues, and software nobody else will go near.
What the same work costs
Three ways to get it built.
The bar shows how much of a 160 hour month each option actually buys you.
Hire someone
$12,000+
per month, loaded
About a third of a month
A senior engineer in the US averages about $145,000 base. Payroll tax and benefits put the real cost near $190,000 a year. That is before you have found anyone, and finding anyone takes months.
Bring in an agency
$150–250
per hour
About 26 hours
US agencies bill $150 to $250 an hour. At the low end this is twenty six hours of somebody's time. Not twenty six hours a week. Twenty six hours, and then it is gone.
Subscribe
$2,995
per month
The whole month
One senior engineer, 10+ years in, working your queue every month. 309 projects delivered for 92 clients, rated 4.95. No recruiting, no contract, cancel whenever you want.
What you do not get
A full-time hire gives you 160 hours a month and someone sitting in your standups. An agency gives you a team, and cover when somebody is ill. This is one person, one task at a time. If you need three things built at once, this is the wrong option, and I will tell you that on the call rather than take your money.
What you can send
If it runs on a server, a phone, or somebody else’s cloud account, it is in scope.
Pick a category to see what people actually send under it, and how the bigger jobs get broken up.
Web applications
Custom platforms, dashboards, client portals, internal tools.
What people send
- Booking and scheduling platforms
- Client portals with billing and documents
- Internal admin tools replacing spreadsheets
- Multi-tenant SaaS products
How it gets handled
A whole application is not one task, it is a queue. We agree the shape up front, then it arrives in working pieces: auth and data model first, then the screens people use every day, then the reporting nobody thinks about until launch week. You see something running in the first weeks, not at the end.
Mobile apps
iOS and Android, native or cross-platform.
What people send
- Cross-platform apps from an existing web product
- App Store and Play Store submission
- Push notifications, offline sync, deep links
- Taking over an abandoned React Native codebase
How it gets handled
A full app is a real project, usually months rather than weeks. You get an honest estimate before anything starts, and the build is split so there is a testable version on your phone early instead of a launch you cannot see coming.
Websites and e-commerce
Marketing sites, stores, memberships, rebuilds and migrations.
What people send
- WooCommerce and Shopify builds and rescues
- Marketing sites that load fast and rank
- Membership and subscription sites
- Platform migrations with URLs and SEO intact
How it gets handled
A store is broken into catalogue, checkout, and everything that happens after the order. Migrations run alongside the live site until the new one is provably correct, so you are never cutting over on hope.
Infrastructure and DevOps
Cloud, servers, deploy pipelines, performance work.
What people send
- Deployment pipelines and staging environments
- Server setup, migration, and hardening
- Performance and Core Web Vitals work
- Monitoring, backups, and uptime alerting
How it gets handled
Usually the fastest wins on the whole list. Most of this lands inside a week: a deploy that stops being manual, a server that stops falling over, a page that stops taking nine seconds.
Integrations and automation
Connecting systems you already run so they stop needing people.
What people send
- CRM, billing, and ERP connections
- Payment and invoicing automation
- Third-party APIs and webhooks
- Removing recurring manual data entry
How it gets handled
Scoped per connection. Two systems talking to each other is normally days, not weeks, and it is worth sending the ones that eat somebody's afternoon every week before the ones that sound impressive.
Fixing what is broken
Inherited codebases and software nobody else will touch.
What people send
- Codebases left behind by a departed developer
- Bugs three other people could not reproduce
- Sites that broke after an update
- Emergency recovery and clean-up
How it gets handled
Send it even if you cannot describe what is wrong. The first pass is diagnosis, and you get a written answer on what is actually happening and what it takes to fix, before I start changing anything.
Security and audits
Reviews, hardening, and cleaning up after a compromise.
What people send
- Security audits with a ranked fix list
- Hacked site recovery and clean-up
- Dependency and vulnerability upgrades
- Access, secrets, and permissions review
How it gets handled
An audit is one task and comes back as a prioritised list with severities, not a PDF you have to interpret. Fixing what it finds is the next task, and you choose how far down the list to go.
AI features
Assistants, extraction, classification, workflow automation.
What people send
- Document extraction and classification
- Support assistants over your own content
- Drafting and summarising inside existing tools
- Model integration into an existing product
How it gets handled
Best sent as the smallest useful version first. One workflow that works end to end beats a broad assistant that half works, and it tells you quickly whether the rest is worth building.
Data and reporting
Dashboards, exports, migrations, and the numbers behind them.
What people send
- Reporting dashboards for non-technical teams
- Database design and migration
- Scheduled exports and reconciliation
- Cleaning up data that stopped being trustworthy
How it gets handled
The reporting question is almost always a data question first. Expect the first task to be getting the numbers correct and agreed, and the dashboard on top of it to be the quick part.
Not sure whether yours fits?
Fifteen minutes is usually enough to tell you whether it is a fit, roughly how long it takes, and whether you would be better off spending the money somewhere else.
How it works
Once to join. Then the same loop every month.
Once
Subscribe
$2,995 a month. No contract, no minimum, no onboarding fee. Card details, a short onboarding check, and your queue opens, usually within a day.
Repeats every month
01
Send a task
Describe it the way you would to a colleague. You get an honest estimate before any work starts.
02
It gets built
One active task, worked until it is complete. Visible progress every week, in your timezone. Small tasks usually come back within 48 hours of going active.
03
Send the next one
Or pause, and pick the subscription back up whenever the next thing comes along.
The record
7 years on a marketplace that counts every job.
I've worked with quite a few developers over the years and none have been as communicative, comprehensive, and understanding as Cristian. The type of employee we always look for: a problem solver.
4.95
Averaged across 309 completed projects for 92 clients. Every one of them counted.
Verified, not curated
The rating is calculated by Codeable, not written by me, and it covers every project I have ever taken there. There is no way to delete a bad one. Not a selection of the good ones. All of them.
Codeable is a WordPress marketplace, so that is what the number certifies. The rest of my week, for the last decade, has been the wider stack on this page: Next.js and React Native apps, integrations and cloud infrastructure, built white-label for agencies serving enterprise clients.
For agencies
Overflow capacity, shipped under your brand.
White-label as standard
Deliverables, staging sites and repos carry your branding, the way agency subcontracting normally works. The client relationship stays entirely yours.
The same engineer every month
Nobody re-learns your client's codebase from scratch. The person who built it in March is the person extending it in August.
A second lane on demand
When your queue backs up, a second subscription doubles the capacity the same day. No recruiting, no onboarding, no notice period when it quiets down.
A lot of the record above shipped through agencies already. If you sell the work and need it built reliably, this is the arrangement the offer was shaped around.
Book a 15-minute intro callBefore you subscribe
When this is not right for you.
Four situations where I would tell you to spend the money somewhere else. Better you read it now than find out in month two.
You need three things at once
One subscription is one active task. That is what a second subscription is for, and I will say so rather than quietly fall behind.
You need design-led work
I am an engineer. I will make things clean and functional, and bring in a specialist when the work calls for it.
Big builds take months
A full mobile app is a real project. You get an honest estimate before committing, not an optimistic one that slips.
No cryptocurrency projects
Not a technical limitation. A personal one.
Anything else, send it. If it turns out to be a bad fit I will say so on the call rather than take your money.
Cristian
Questions
The things people ask first.
What counts as one task?
Whatever you scope it as. A form fix is a task. A mobile app is a task. The difference is how long it takes, and you get the estimate before work starts.
How many hours a month do I get?
It is not an hours contract. You are buying the active slot: one task, worked until it is finished, with an honest estimate before it starts. Busy months that is a lot of hours. Quiet months you pause and pay nothing. And if your queue is consistently more than one person can absorb, I will tell you so, rather than quietly fall behind.
When does the 48-hour clock start?
When your task goes active, not when it lands in the queue. One thing is worked at a time, so if you send three small tasks at once the second starts when the first is done. You always see where your tasks sit.
What if my task takes four months?
Then it takes four months, and you keep paying monthly while it is built. For a full application that usually costs less than commissioning it as a fixed price project, and you can stop whenever you want.
What if it is not working out?
Say so within the first week and 75% of the month comes back, with nothing to justify and no forms to fill. Past the first week there are no refunds, but there are two better options: pause the subscription and keep your unused days for up to twelve months, or cancel in a click with no notice period. Either way, everything already built stays yours.
Can I pause, even mid-task?
Yes. Work stops where the paid month stops, and picks up exactly there when you restart. Banked days stay good for twelve months, nobody pays for a month they are not using, and there is no notice period. Cancelling works the same way: no notice, and the month you paid for runs to its end.
Who owns the code?
You do, from the first commit, for everything your payments cover, including anything half-finished if you leave.
Do you work white-label for agencies?
Yes. A lot of this ships under an agency's name, the way normal subcontracting does. The work goes out under your branding, and the client relationship stays yours.
What timezone do you work?
I work US East Coast hours, so you get overlap with a normal American business day rather than a reply the next morning.
Who am I paying?
Me, through my company. Your invoice and card statement are labelled so the charge is easy to recognise as this subscription, and the invoice carries the full company details.
One engineer. This one.
I am Cristian Simion. For the past 10+ years I have built the technical side of growth for marketing and revenue teams: the platforms, integrations, and automations their businesses depend on.
The pattern rarely changes: find the system that is quietly holding things back, rebuild it properly, and stay until it never becomes a problem again. The longest of those stays: three years retained on the front end at OpenPhone, now Quo.
You would be trusting one person with real money, so do not take this page's word for it.
4.95 out of 5
309 projects · 92 clients, counted on Codeable
See if this fits.
That is what the first week is for: if it is not working, say so and three quarters of the month comes back. No forms, no argument.
Or spend fifteen minutes first. I will tell you honestly whether this fits, and point you somewhere better if it does not.
Ready now? Take the slot. Onboarding takes about a day.