For businesses that don't have time to babysit a website —

Your website, handled.

Think of me as your in-house developer, without adding one to payroll. I can take over the site you already have for a fixed monthly fee, or rebuild it for a fixed price with a real deadline. Either way, I stay on: need a change, message me like a coworker and it's live the same day.

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A written agreement with Schottky LLC. No ticket queue. No hour reports. Your business keeps control of its domain, accounts, data, and website.

15+ years building for the web, full stack

Schottky LLC — a written agreement on every engagement, not a handshake

Multi-year retainers — my clients stay for years, not quarters

Fixed price, real deadline — miss the date, you stop paying

You were never supposed to be a website editor.

Somebody at your company owns "the website" on top of their real job. They dread it. The page editor never does what the design shows, the software wants updating again, and every small change turns into a project. There's a simpler arrangement.

The website stops being a chore

Logins nobody remembers, software that constantly needs updating, "how do I make the photo bigger" afternoons, and a low-grade worry that the whole thing might break — or get hacked — at the worst moment. All of that lands on my desk instead of yours.

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Like having a developer down the hall

You message me the way you'd message a coworker — "swap the header photo and add Tuesday hours" — and it's live the same day. Faster than anyone at your office could wrestle an editor into doing it, and done right, by the person who built the site.

The contract says acknowledged within two business hours, live the same business day. In practice, small things usually ship within the hour.

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You own everything, always

Plain, documented code in a repository that belongs to you. Any developer in the world can pick it up tomorrow. No platform holding your site hostage, no software subscription you forgot you were paying.

Start with the problem, not a package.

Some businesses need a rebuild. Some have a form, a customer process, or a system that is costing them work. Some need a reliable person to take responsibility for a site nobody wants to touch. I take a free look first, then give you a straight answer about what makes sense.

Door one — "take over my site"

I run what you have

Fixed monthly feeexact number quoted in your free review · month-to-month

For sites that mostly work but have no owner. A quiet brochure site costs less than a busy one with weekly changes — you get an exact monthly number, free, before you commit to anything.

Month one: stabilization I put your site under version control, document it, and make it safely deployable. Then the same-day change service kicks in.

Your existing site, whatever it runs on
Direct line in Slack — changes live same day
Security updates and backups handled
Honest advice when a rebuild would cost you less

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Door two — "rebuild my site"

Make the website do its job

Fixed project priceexact number and launch date, agreed in writing before work starts

For a business ready to fix the work holding it back: credibility, lead flow, customer experience, online sales, or the systems wrapped around the site. We agree on the job, the number, and the date before work begins.

The deadline has teeth If your rebuilt site is not live on the date we agree to, you stop paying until it is. I control delivery, so I can afford to put that in writing.

A site rebuilt around the way your business actually works
A clearer path from first visit to next step
Forms, scheduling, payments, or other systems connected where needed
Your content and search rankings carried over where appropriate
A defined scope, price, and launch date before the work starts

Payment plans available.

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Door three — "I'm not sure yet"

Get a second opinion before you commit

Freeno obligation, no sales call first

You do not need to decide what to buy before we talk. Send me the site and tell me what is not working. I will tell you what I see, what I would do, and whether I am the right person for it.

No sales pitch — just a straight answer
A practical next step, not a canned package
You keep the recommendation whether we work together or not
If another specialist is a better fit, I will tell you

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Every project starts with the same thing: send me your website and tell me what is not working. I will take a free look before we talk. If there is a fit, you get a clear scope, a real price, and a real date in writing.

Websites · Systems · Software

Built around how your business actually works

A website may be the project. Or the project may be the software behind it. I build both — from a high-performing public site to the customer portal, internal tool, connected system, or full web application your business needs next.

Website & commerce

Public sites, online stores, payments, subscriptions, booking, customer accounts

Operations & integrations

Lead routing, CRM connections, APIs, field-service or accounting integrations, notifications, dashboards, workflow automation

Custom software

Client portals, internal tools, admin systems, web applications, and full SaaS products

Have a product idea or a business process that needs real software? Bring it to the free review. I'll help you define the practical next step.

Sound familiar? —

Whatever your site runs on, there's a reason it feels heavy.

Every website platform makes the same trade: easy to start, expensive to live with. If your team has outgrown the person who built it, here's what that trade looks like, platform by platform.

Still on WordPress?

It runs roughly two out of five websites on earth — which is exactly why automated attacks hammer it around the clock. The site only stays safe as long as somebody keeps feeding it: core updates, theme updates, plugin updates, and every update can quietly break something else. That somebody is currently you.

What changes: plain, dependency-free code — nobody on your team patches a plugin again.

Still on "a developer built it years ago"?

And now nobody answers the phone, nobody has the passwords, and everyone's afraid to touch it. That's exactly what door one — "take over my site" — exists for.

What changes: one point of contact who documents everything, so the next person isn't guessing either.

Not sure who can safely touch your site anymore?

Ask me to take a look

Does anyone actually own it?

IT owns the network. Marketing owns the ad spend. If nobody's actual job is the website itself, a broken lead form can sit silent for weeks before anyone notices — quietly costing you the leads it was supposed to bring in.

What changes: one person accountable for uptime, security, and every system connected to the site.

Still on an aging shop, or one held together by plugins?

Magento 1, a WooCommerce install with a plugin for everything, a Shopify store buried in apps, or a custom cart nobody wants to touch. I've built and run a full hosted shop platform for a client — catalog, checkout, payments, orders, and the admin behind it — so a shop migration isn't new territory.

What changes: one shop system you own, with products, customers, and order history moved over and your search rankings kept.

Still on concrete5?

Then it's more urgent than a drawback: your site stopped getting security updates entirely. That's not my claim — it's the software vendor's own announcement. Every concrete5 site on version 8 or older has been running without security patches since December 31, 2024.

"Version 8 support has officially ended." — Concrete CMS, official project announcement

Concrete CMS is my deepest specialty. I can read every corner of your existing site and carry all of it — content, addresses, search rankings — into plain, dependency-free code with nothing left to patch and nothing left to hack. If you're on concrete5, mention it when you write: you're the exact client I built this service for.

No hour reports. Here's what you get instead.

Clients ask for timesheets when they can't see motion. So I replaced the timesheet with something better: you see the work itself, continuously.

gone —

Hourly rates and hour reports
"Is anyone actually working on this?" anxiety
Surprise invoices and change-order haggling
Chasing several vendors for one answer
Software logins, plugin updates, security patches
Explaining your site to a new developer every two years

what you get instead —

A fixed monthly number that never surprises you
A weekly 3-minute video: what shipped, what's next
A live status page you can open at 11pm before the board meeting
Outcomes agreed in writing at the start of each month
One person who has known your site for years

The questions everyone asks

Why hire one developer instead of a company?

You are hiring a company: Schottky LLC, with a written agreement, a defined scope, and proper invoicing through a client billing portal. What you skip is the layers. No account manager relaying your request, no junior developer learning on your site, no ticket queue. The person who answers your message is the person who writes the code.

It works the way an in-house developer would, without the salary, the benefits, or the hiring search. The fair worry with any one-person shop is continuity, so that's the next answer.

What happens if something happens to you?

Your site never depends on me being reachable. The domain, hosting, and code repository sit in accounts your business owns, and every site I run comes with a written handoff guide: where it lives, how it deploys, and what's connected to it. Any competent developer can pick it up tomorrow morning.

That's a stronger continuity story than most business websites have today, where the site is trapped inside software a shrinking number of people understand, or inside someone else's accounts.

What if we want to edit content ourselves?

In all my years of retainer work, clients have asked me to make the change every single time — that's why they keep me around. Messaging your developer is faster than fighting a page editor.

But if you have genuinely high-frequency content — a jobs board, a news feed, an events calendar — I build that one section as a simple editor made for exactly your content. The rest of the site stays bulletproof.

Do you take ownership of our website or accounts?

No. Your business keeps control of its domain, accounts, data, and website. My job is to take responsibility for the technical work we agree on, not to take possession of your assets.

When a handoff makes sense, the work is documented so another qualified person can understand it.

Why is there no hourly rate?

Because hours measure my time, not your outcome. You're buying "the site ships on this date" and "changes go live the same day" — so that's what the contract says, and that's what the invoice reads. If I get faster at my job, you shouldn't have to renegotiate; you should just get faster service.

How fast do changes really go live?

The contract guarantees acknowledgment within 2 business hours and most content changes live the same business day. In practice, small changes often ship within the hour. I promise the number I can keep on my worst day and beat it on every other one.

Can you really take over a site you didn't build?

Yes — that's what the stabilization month is for. I get your site into version control, document how it works, and make it safe to change before promising same-day turnaround. If what I find means a rebuild would genuinely cost you less than maintaining what you have, I'll show you that math instead of quietly billing you for fighting it.

What does a rebuild not include?

The scope is a one-page document we both sign before kickoff: which pages, which integrations, what gets migrated. Anything outside it goes on the next month's outcome list instead of silently inflating the project. That discipline is why I can put a real price and a real date on delivery.

From my desk in Missouri

Why I work this way

I've been building websites and web applications for over fifteen years. For most of those years I billed like everyone else: hourly, with reports. And I watched the same thing happen on every project — the moment hours enter the conversation, trust leaves it. The client starts wondering what they're paying for. The developer starts performing busyness. Everybody loses.

So I stopped. Now I sell two things: a finished site by a date we both signed, and the promise that when you need something changed, it's done the same day. My clients tend to stay for years — I think that's why.

I keep my client list short on purpose, so I can work like your in-house developer instead of another vendor. There's no account manager between you and me, no junior developer doing the work while I take the calls. When you message, I answer.

Alexander

Alexander Schottky · Principal developer, Schottky LLC · Missouri, USA