Web Development Hardbrücke.

Building a website starts at CHF 3'000, a single landing page at CHF 2'500 and a business website at CHF 5'000. Complex web solutions sit in a different order of magnitude: an MVP — the first working version of a web application — runs CHF 15'000 to 25'000, and a complete platform or portal considerably higher. The spread comes not from the number of pages but from the logic underneath: user roles, interfaces, the data model and real-time features drive the effort. Hosting and domain add roughly CHF 100 to 500 per year. Our project calculator gives you a first order of magnitude for your own project in a few minutes.

Web design answers how a page looks and feels — layout, typography, imagery, the way people move through it. Web development answers how it works: the code, the data structure, the interfaces to other systems, the load time and the maintainability over years. For a classic company website the two collapse into one job and we deliver both from one hand. As soon as logic enters the picture — a login, roles, calculations, a shop, a connection to an existing system — the weight shifts clearly towards development. If presentation and visual identity are your priority, our web design offering is the right page; if your website has to do something, you are in the right place here.

We build with Next.js and React on the front end, in TypeScript throughout, and style with Tailwind CSS; on the back end we work with Node.js and PostgreSQL. That is deliberately a narrow, modern stack rather than a bit of everything, because we want to still be able to maintain every line we ship several years from now. Next.js provides server-side rendering and static generation out of the box — decisive for SEO, because search engines and AI crawlers see finished HTML instead of an empty page. TypeScript catches a large share of errors while we write them. In a quarter full of tech companies, that stack is no accident: it is the current standard for clean, long-lived web solutions.

Yes, and it happens regularly — often when the original agency has become unreachable or a project has stalled technically. We start by reviewing the code, the dependencies and the hosting setup, then tell you honestly whether extending or rebuilding makes more commercial sense. That answer does not automatically favour a rebuild: a clean codebase is something we happily continue, even though we did not write it. What argues for a rebuild is outdated dependencies with security holes, an unmanageable tangle of plugins, or an architecture that cannot support the feature you want. Not having access to the code is no obstacle, as long as you control the domain and the hosting.

A website goes live in two weeks when content and approvals arrive promptly — the normal case for a company presence. More involved work follows different timelines: an MVP of a web application ships in roughly six to twelve weeks, and a complete platform with back-end logic, roles and integrations takes several months. We work in two-week sprints, and after each one you see working features rather than a bare status report. In our experience the biggest time sink is not the engineering but waiting for content and decisions. That is why we agree before kick-off who signs things off on your side and where the copy comes from.

A site builder or a theme with a pile of plugins is quick to set up, but it becomes a problem exactly where your offering is distinctive: you get what the plugin allows, not what your business needs. Custom-built applications are usually considerably faster, carry no plugin licences or plugin conflicts, and present a smaller attack surface for security problems. In Zurich West especially, where plenty of businesses are technically literate themselves, a clean codebase that can still be changed safely in two years counts for a lot. That said, if your project can be solved with standard tools, we will say so — not every project needs custom development.