Who can I turn to for a small but high-quality web application, without engaging a large agency for CHF 200,000?

That is exactly the case this offering is built for. You work directly with a senior engineer rather than with a team where part of the hours go into internal coordination. The hourly rate is published, the effort is estimated up front, and a fixed price is possible for clearly bounded projects. The limit is just as clear: as soon as several teams have to work in parallel, or round-the-clock operation has to be guaranteed, an agency is the better choice. I say that in the first call, not after the quote.

Who in Switzerland can set up a Next.js or Nuxt web app with login, dashboard and API integration properly?

That is standard work here. Nuxt and Next.js with server-side rendering, authentication with roles and permissions, integration with existing APIs or a Node.js backend of its own. Server-side rendering and clean markup are not an add-on but the precondition for the application being readable by search engines and language models at all.

Should we go with Vue or React?

Both are defensible, but I am not equally fast in both. My production experience is in Vue and Nuxt — that is what I work in daily, and that is where you get senior pace and senior judgement. I read React and Next.js and build in them with AI assistance, but I will not propose them as the main stack for a new project, because what you are paying for is someone who knows the pitfalls from practice rather than from the documentation. If your team already runs React and you need someone to maintain and extend it, that is a different case — there is more about it on the maintenance and takeover page. And if you want the question settled before the project starts, a technical second opinion is the right format: one or two sessions with a written assessment, without commissioning a project.

What does a website or web app cost with you?

The hourly rate for this offering starts at CHF 125.–. What a specific project costs in total depends on its scope, and naming that figure credibly before the scope is settled is not possible. So it starts with the free first call and continues with a written assessment covering effort and open questions. For clearly bounded scope a fixed price is possible too.

Do you work on site in Basel or remotely?

Both. I am based in Basel and available on site for meetings in north-western Switzerland; the ongoing work happens remotely. Advice and documentation in German, Swiss German or English.

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Web development and web apps in Basel

Modern websites and custom web applications with Vue and Nuxt — from idea to launch, working directly with the engineer.

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You need a website, an online offering or a custom web application — and someone to carry the project from idea to launch. I am an independent senior engineer in Basel and have been building web solutions for over twelve years, four of them at a Swiss digital agency serving clients in pharma, industry and finance. Throughout, you talk to the person who also writes the code. No project-management layer, no rotating staff, no translation between concept and implementation. The first call takes around thirty minutes, costs nothing, and ends with an honest assessment — including when that assessment is that you need someone else.

Hourly rate from CHF 125.–/h · Fixed price for clearly scoped projects on request

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Who this is for

SMEs in Basel and north-western Switzerland who need a site or online offering that does not look like a page builder
Startups who need a first production version and do not yet have an engineering team
Institutes and research groups with an internal tool that currently consists of spreadsheets
Agencies buying in frontend capacity for a design system or a Figma implementation
Companies with a clear process in mind for which no off-the-shelf software fits

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What is included

Modern, fast websites — responsive, accessible and built for search
Custom web applications, configurators and internal tools
Frontend engineering from Figma designs, including design system and styleguide
Integration with CMS platforms and APIs (Storyblok, Drupal, custom APIs)
Online shops and payment integration (Prestashop, Shopify)
Login, roles and permission management for business applications
Concept and advice: what should be built — and what should not

Technology: Vue.js 2 and 3, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SASS, Node.js, Cloudflare Workers & Pages, SQLite, MySQL. I read React and Next.js and work in them productively with AI assistance; as the main stack for a new project I recommend Vue and Nuxt.

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Typical engagements

Company website with an editing system

Multilingual, an editing system your team operates without an engineer, clean markup for search engines and language models. This site is itself an example.

Web app as a first production version

Login, dashboard, API integration, a clearly bounded feature set. The goal is a version real users can work with — not a prototype that gets thrown away afterwards.

Figma design implemented precisely

The design exists, the implementation does not. Includes a reusable component library so your team can carry on building afterwards.

An internal tool instead of spreadsheets

A process several people currently maintain in spreadsheets becomes an application with permissions, history and reporting.

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How it runs

01
First call, thirty minutes
You describe the plan, I say whether it fits what I do, roughly what it takes and where I see risk. Free and without obligation.
02
Written assessment
Scope, an architecture sketch, effort in hours, and the open questions that can still move the price. You decide on that basis, not on a number without a derivation.
03
Delivery in visible steps
You get a reachable preview URL early and a new state regularly after that. Larger projects are invoiced against completed milestones.
04
Launch and handover
Deployment, documentation, access. The repository is yours, and what happens afterwards is settled in advance.

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When I am not the right partner

Pure graphic design work without implementation — I implement designs and advise on structure, but I am not a designer
Native iOS or Android apps. Web apps can be built so a mobile shell is possible later; a genuinely native app is a different craft
Programmes with several parallel teams and a fixed multi-year roadmap — that needs an agency with capacity, and I will say so in the first call
Round-the-clock operation with guaranteed response times overnight. Maintenance yes, on-call duty no

Handover and what comes after

Everything lives in a Git repository that belongs to you, on a standard stack with no proprietary CMS and no licence tied to me. Closing out includes documentation of the architecture and the operational routines and, if you want it, a handover session with your team or your next supplier. How that works in detail is set out on the how-I-work page.

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Evidence

Four years as a frontend developer at WONDROUS, a Swiss digital creative studio — delivering there for clients including Roche, Novartis, Sandoz, Daimler, Basler Kantonalbank and Arcondis
Subsequently frontend and backend at Winterthur Medien AG: Vue and Nuxt with Tailwind, APIs with Node.js, in a Scrum team
Built and maintained reusable design systems and styleguides across several client projects
Over forty documented client projects since 2013

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Common questions

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Discuss a project

Tell me briefly what it is about. I will get back to you shortly for a no-obligation first call.

Email: manuel@hallerpolo.com
Location: Basel
UID: CHE-216.461.477
First call: around 30 minutes, no obligation

What happens next

01You tell me what it is about.
02A no-obligation call of around thirty minutes.
03A written assessment: scope, approach, timeline, cost.

Check your project

Web development and web apps in Basel

Company website with an editing system

Web app as a first production version

Figma design implemented precisely

An internal tool instead of spreadsheets

First call, thirty minutes

Written assessment

Delivery in visible steps

Launch and handover

Handover and what comes after