Web Development Winterthur.

From a company website to a platform with its own back-end logic — the stack stays the same, the effort does not. What tends to be asked for in Winterthur:

• 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 for dealer and service networks, booking systems, member areas, dashboards with live data. More on our Complex Web Solutions page.
• Product configurators — multi-step tools that guide customers through a choice of variants and turn it into a qualified enquiry. Particularly valuable for manufacturing and supplier businesses.
• Online shops — product catalogue, payment integration, checkout flow, connected to whatever you already work with.
• APIs and integrations — custom back-end APIs, database design, authentication, role-based access and connections to ERP or CRM.

The common thread: built to order, on a data model that fits your business.

Next.js and React on the front end, TypeScript throughout, Tailwind CSS for styling, Node.js and PostgreSQL on the back end. A narrow stack instead of a bit of everything — we want to be able to maintain every line we ship three years from now. What each part contributes:

• Next.js renders pages on the server or generates them at build time. Every crawler gets finished HTML in the first response instead of an empty page. That is precisely where classic JavaScript sites lose ground on discoverability and where many AI crawlers drop out entirely.
• TypeScript catches a large share of 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, not in production.
• React gives us components built once and reused everywhere. Less code, fewer places for errors to hide.
• PostgreSQL is a relational database with a properly modelled schema that grows with you instead of 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, and those are a ranking factor. It is why we treat technical discoverability as a property of the architecture rather than as later optimisation.

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. On small projects the two overlap and we deliver both. Once logic enters the picture the balance shifts: the design is done in days, the build takes weeks.

Here is how to find the right page with us:

• You need web design if your project is mainly a convincing presence — company website, relaunch, landing page. → Web Design Zurich.
• You need web development if your website has to do something that is not available off the shelf: calculate, book, configure, sell, connect to your ERP — or if you want an existing application taken over technically. → this page.
• You need a complex web solution if it is a platform with its own back-end logic: roles, multiple tenants, real-time data, a SaaS product. → Web App Development.

If you cannot place your project yourself, that is not a problem — that is what the first conversation is for. We will also tell you when your project is smaller than you thought.

In agile two-week sprints — after each sprint you see working features, not a status report. Four steps:

• 1. Discovery — what should the system do, for whom, and what does it hang off? This is where the effort is decided, not later in the code.
• 2. Prototyping — interactive prototypes, so misunderstandings surface in a click-through demo instead of in the finished application.
• 3. Build — two-week sprints with regular demos. You see progress continuously and can steer while steering is still cheap.
• 4. Deployment — go-live with monitoring, training and documentation. One month of support after launch is included.

Realistic timelines: a website is live in two weeks, an MVP in six to twelve weeks, a complete platform in three to six months. Because the studio is only about 25 kilometres away, discovery workshops and hand-overs in Winterthur can also happen in person.