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Hontec
Custom software

Engineering teams that ship with yours.

When the work is differentiated enough to build, we build it with you — not for you. Founder-led, drawn from our senior freelance bench, embedded into your delivery rhythm. Project-based, with promises in writing.

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Web platforms

Customer-facing and internal web apps engineered for the next three years, not the next sprint.

  • Next.js, React, TypeScript front-ends with design systems that scale
  • Node, Go and Python services with measurable SLOs
  • Postgres, Redis, Kafka, S3 — boring, durable stacks
  • Full instrumentation: logs, metrics, traces from day one
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Mobile apps

iOS, Android and cross-platform builds shipped to the stores, not just demoed.

  • Swift, Kotlin and React Native depending on what your users actually need
  • Offline-first sync, push notifications, deep links
  • App Store and Play submission, review-response and rollout
  • Performance budgets baked into CI — startup, scroll, battery
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Cloud & DevOps

Migrate, modernise, or just stop the 2am pages — AWS, Azure and GCP.

  • Lift-and-shift, replatforming and full re-architecture programs
  • Terraform, Pulumi and CDK — infrastructure as code, reviewed like code
  • Kubernetes when it makes sense, plain ECS / Cloud Run when it doesn't
  • Cost reviews that have saved clients 18–42% in the first quarter
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AI integration

LLMs and ML built into real workflows — measured by business outcome, not demo wow.

  • Retrieval augmented generation with eval harnesses, not vibes
  • Fine-tuning and small-model deployment for cost and latency
  • Document understanding, support deflection, sales intelligence
  • Guardrails: PII redaction, prompt-injection defences, audit logging
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Product engineering teams

Dedicated squads — engineering, design, PM — embedded into your delivery rhythm.

  • Squads of 3–9, billed monthly, scaled up or down with 30 days' notice
  • Time zone overlap with EU, US East and APAC clients
  • Your tooling, your standards, your Jira — we adapt to your shop
  • Quarterly business reviews with engineering leadership
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Engagement models

Pick the shape that matches the risk.

Most engagements start with a fixed-bid discovery, then move into one of three delivery models. We’ll recommend the one we’d sign if it were our money.

Dedicated squad

Monthly retainer

A small squad of 2–6 — drawn from our senior freelance bench, founder-led, embedded with yours. Best for multi-quarter product builds.

  • 30 days notice to scale
  • Time-zone overlap built into the squad
  • Your tools, your processes

Fixed-bid build

Per project

Defined scope, defined price, fixed-date milestones. Best for clear, bounded builds — a migration, an integration, a launch.

  • Promises named in the SOW, credits if we miss
  • Milestone-gated payments
  • Hand-over from day one

Senior freelancer placement

Per role · monthly

We slot one or two senior freelancers from our bench into your team. Best for capacity gaps and short bursts of senior depth.

  • Hand-picked from our bench
  • Project-based, no minimum-month tax
  • Replacement guarantee in 14 days
Our stack, briefly

Boring tech, picked on purpose.

We’ve had the latest-and-greatest era. Now we pick stacks that boring-old companies can hire for in five years.

Languages

TypeScriptGoPythonKotlinSwiftRust (sparingly)

Platforms

AWSAzureGCPKubernetesECSCloud Run

Data

PostgresRedisKafkaBigQuerySnowflakeClickHouse

Frontend

ReactNext.jsReact NativeSwiftUIJetpack Compose

DevEx

GitHub ActionsTerraformPulumiDatadogHoneycombSentry

AI / ML

OpenAIAnthropicVertex AIvLLMpgvectorRagas
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