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Web Development Oerlikon.
Zurich North is a base for tech and service companies — and their websites usually need to do more than look good. We write the code: web apps, portals and online shops with Next.js and TypeScript. Websites from CHF 3'000, complex solutions from CHF 15'000.
Calculate project costOerlikon holds a dense mix of tech, service and professional firms — precisely the businesses whose website has to do something. Around Oerlikon station and the office quarters of Zurich North, the question is rarely a handsome presence. It is functions: calculate, book, configure, sell, plug into an existing system. That part is web development — the code, the architecture and the data model behind the surface.
We are DLM Digital, a studio in Zollikon, working since 2022 on more than 300 projects. We build websites and web applications from scratch with Next.js, React and TypeScript — no site builder, no stack of plugins that nobody will want to touch in two years. If presentation and visual identity are your priority, you are better served by Web Design Zurich. For city-wide development enquiries, our main page Web Development Zurich carries the bigger picture.
What we build for companies in Zurich North
From a company website to a platform with its own back-end logic — the stack stays the same, the effort does not. What we typically build for businesses in Oerlikon and Zurich North:
- Websites and company presences — custom built rather than a theme bent into shape, from CHF 3'000 and live in two weeks.
- Web applications and portals — B2B portals, booking and reservation systems, member areas, dashboards with live data.
- Online shops — product catalogue, payment integration and checkout flow, connected to whatever you already work with.
- Calculators and configurators — multi-step tools that walk customers through a decision and produce qualified enquiries.
- APIs and integrations — custom back ends, authentication, role-based access and connections to third-party systems.
The common thread: a data model that fits your business rather than whatever a plugin happens to allow.
Why Next.js and TypeScript — especially in a tech environment
A narrow, modern stack beats a bit of everything — particularly where technically literate clients look closely. Next.js and React on the front end, TypeScript throughout, Node.js and PostgreSQL on the back end. What each part contributes:
- Next.js renders pages on the server or generates them at build time (SSR and SSG). Every crawler gets finished HTML in the first response — precisely the point where pure JavaScript sites lose ground in search and where many AI crawlers drop out entirely.
- TypeScript catches errors as we write them rather than at your customers. The benefit shows up during a rebuild a year later: what breaks, breaks in the editor.
- PostgreSQL as a relational database with a clean schema scales without needing to be swapped out along the way.
Performance is not a side effect here, it is the reason. Our benchmark is 100/100 PageSpeed — that feeds straight into the Core Web Vitals, which are a ranking factor. This website is built on exactly that stack.
Design or development — which of our pages is the right one
Short version: web design decides how it looks. Web development decides whether it works, how fast it loads and whether anyone can still change it in two years. Here is how to find the right entry point:
- You need web design if your project is mainly a convincing presence — company website, relaunch, imagery. → Web Design Zurich.
- You need web development if your website has to do something that does not exist off the shelf, or if you want an existing application taken over technically. → this page.
- You want everything bundled, visibility and advertising included? Then Digital Agency Zurich brings the services together.
If you cannot place it yourself, that is no problem — that is what the first conversation is for. For a rough figure beforehand, use the project calculator.
Site builder or WordPress versus custom development
| Site builder / WordPress theme | Custom development (DLM Digital) | |
|---|---|---|
| Technical base | Theme plus third-party plugins | Next.js, TypeScript, React, Tailwind |
| Feature scope | Whatever the plugin allows | Whatever your business needs |
| Performance | Optimising against the builder | 100/100 PageSpeed as the benchmark |
| SEO rendering | Depends on the theme | SSR/SSG — finished HTML for every crawler |
| Integrations | Only with a matching plugin | Custom APIs into your own systems |
| Security | Attack surface across every plugin | Narrow stack, smaller attack surface |
| Entry price | Low | From CHF 3'000 |
Web development in Oerlikon — prices
Guide prices for projects out of Zurich North. The range is not driven by page count but by the logic underneath: user roles, interfaces, data model and real-time features drive the effort. Hosting and domain cost a further CHF 100–500 per year.
- One focused page
- Next.js and TypeScript
- 100/100 PageSpeed as the benchmark
- Technical SEO built in
- Live in 1–2 weeks
- Multi-page presence
- Custom built, no theme
- Editable by your own team
- Technical SEO and Schema.org
- 1 month of support included
- MVP from CHF 15'000
- SaaS / B2B portal on request
- Custom back-end APIs, PostgreSQL
- Authentication and roles
- Agile two-week sprints
Frequently asked questions about web development in Oerlikon
A website starts at CHF 3'000, a single landing page at CHF 2'500 and a business website at CHF 5'000. More complex web solutions sit in a different order of magnitude: an MVP — a first working version of a web application — starts from CHF 15'000, and a complete platform or B2B portal lies considerably higher. The spread is not created by the number of pages but by the logic underneath: user roles, interfaces to systems you already run and the data model drive the effort. For a first assessment, our project calculator gives you an order of magnitude in a few minutes.
Web design answers how a website looks and feels: layout, typography, imagery, the way people move through it. Web development answers how it works: the code, the data model, the interfaces, the load time and the maintainability over years. For a classic company website we deliver both from one hand. As soon as logic enters the picture — a login, roles, calculations, a shop, a connection to your ERP — 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 needs functions of its own, you are in the right place here.
Because Zurich North holds an above-average concentration of tech and service companies, for whom web development is a concrete topic. Oerlikon is a district of the city of Zurich, not a municipality of its own — from our studio in Zollikon that means short distances and the same city. Even so the separate page earns its place: firms in the quarter often look for an engineering partner nearby, and we want to answer exactly that search. City-wide development enquiries are handled on our main page, Web Development Zurich, which carries the bigger picture. The two complement each other rather than describing the same service twice.
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: we want to be able to maintain every line we ship three years from now. Next.js provides server-side rendering and static site generation out of the box — decisive for SEO, because Google and AI systems see finished HTML instead of an empty page. TypeScript catches a large share of errors while we write them. This website runs on exactly that stack, so you can check the result live.
Yes, and it happens regularly — often when the original agency has become unreachable or the project has stalled technically. We start by reviewing the code, the dependencies and the hosting setup, then tell you honestly whether extending or rebuilding is the better commercial decision. 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 or an architecture that simply 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.
Yes. Our studio sits in Zollikon, only a few minutes from Zurich North and easy to reach via the Oerlikon transport hub. Development itself runs largely digitally — with regular demos and transparent access to the current state of the project — but for a kick-off, a workshop or a hand-over we are quickly with you. On web applications with many stakeholders in particular, meeting in person helps clear up misunderstandings early. You have one named contact who knows the Zurich North environment and is reachable, instead of an anonymous remote agency.
What will your Oerlikon project cost?
The project calculator gives you an honest ballpark in a few minutes — no sales call attached. If it fits, we talk about the details afterwards.
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