14+ years · Senior development team

Software and websites, built by a team that keeps your hours.

Code Nation builds web applications, websites, and ecommerce platforms for growing businesses and for the agencies that serve them. Senior developers only, online 8 AM to 4 PM CST every business day.

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WordPress
Laravel
React
Next.js
Shopify
Node.js

Trusted by

6 of them · Direct and white-label

Top Class Actions
Legal media
Millions of readers monthly
Top Dog Law
Personal injury
National firm
Vistex
Enterprise software
Global operations
Cork Tree Creative
Agency
White-label partner
BonfireLA
Agency
White-label partner
SalesDoing
Sales technology
Product build

How to begin

Start with one small project, not the whole build.

Hiring a development partner is a risk, and most agencies and business owners have been burned at least once. So we do not ask you to bet a full project on a first impression.

Pick something small and real — a landing page, a plugin, a performance pass, a bug that has been sitting in your backlog for a month. We scope it, quote it, and deliver it inside one week. You see exactly how we communicate, how we write code, and whether we hit the date we gave you. Then you decide whether to hand us the larger project.

Paid at our standard rate, no discount and no free work. Free work is how you find out someone treats you like a low priority.

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Overlap

Your timezone, not ours.

Most outsourced development teams overlap with you for two or three hours and answer everything else tomorrow. A single question can cost three days. We work 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM CST, the same day you do — messages get answered while you are still at your desk, and a blocker raised in the morning is resolved before you log off.

8 AM – 4 PM CST: Daily working hours, every business day
Same business day: Response to anything sent during those hours
Weekly demo: A working staging build every Friday, not a status email

What we build

Four practices. One senior team behind all of them.

Most clients do not need a single skill. They need a partner who can take a WordPress build this quarter, a custom application next quarter, and keep both running afterward — without re-sourcing a developer every time the brief changes shape.

Web applications & custom development

Custom systems built to a specification: client portals, booking and quoting engines, internal tools, dashboards, and the integrations that connect them to software you already run.

PHP & Laravel — business applications, enterprise platforms, legacy modernization
React & Next.js — web apps, admin dashboards, high-performance marketing sites
Node.js & Python — APIs, third-party integrations, scheduled automation
Architecture & data — schema design, migrations, system integration

Typical engagement: 4–12 weeks, fixed scope and fixed price.

WordPress & CMS engineering

Fourteen years of WordPress, most of it on sites where an hour of downtime is a revenue event. Custom themes built from your design files, plugins built to a spec, and platform work on installations that have outgrown page builders.

Custom theme development — built from Figma, Sketch, or XD
Plugin & block development — bespoke functionality, Gutenberg blocks
WooCommerce — stores, custom checkout flows, payment and shipping integration
Joomla & Drupal — content-heavy builds, legacy support, migrations

Typical engagement: 2–8 weeks.

Ecommerce

Storefronts that convert and keep working as the catalog grows, plus the custom app work that off-the-shelf themes cannot cover.

Shopify — theme development, headless builds, private and public apps
WooCommerce — custom product logic, subscriptions, ERP and inventory sync
Payments & fulfillment — gateway integration, tax, shipping, third-party logistics

Typical engagement: 3–10 weeks.

Performance, security & maintenance

The work that starts after launch, and the reason most clients move from a project to a monthly retainer.

Speed & Core Web Vitals — LCP, CLS, and INP remediation with before-and-after reporting
Security hardening — vulnerability remediation, malware cleanup, access control, WAF configuration
Maintenance retainers — updates, backups, uptime monitoring, monthly reporting
Rapid-build platforms — Webflow and Framer where the timeline demands it

Typical engagement: monthly retainer.

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Who we work with

Two ways to work with us.

For businesses

You need it built properly and kept running.

You need a website or an application built properly and kept running. We handle scoping, build, testing, launch, and ongoing support, working directly with your team. One senior developer on your project and one point of contact who understands the commercial goal, not just the ticket.

Best forCompanies without an in-house development team, or with one already at capacity.

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For agencies — white-label

You have won the work and need a delivery team.

We build under your brand: no Code Nation attribution anywhere in the deliverable, no contact with your client, and documentation written so you can forward it without editing. NDA signed before the first brief, full IP assignment, and a single project manager reporting in your channel.

Best forDesign studios, branding agencies, and marketing firms that sell development but do not employ developers.

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Small team, on purpose

You will work with the people who build it.

We are a small senior team, and that is a decision rather than a stage we are trying to grow out of. There is no account manager between you and the developer, no junior learning on your budget, and no rotating cast of contractors who each need the project explained again.

The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it. When you ask why something was done a particular way, you get the reasoning from whoever made the decision, in the same conversation.

No juniors on client work
Every engagement is led by a developer with real delivery history.
No account-manager layer
You talk to the people writing the code.
Limited concurrent projects
We take on what we can staff properly, and say no when we cannot.

How we price

Three commercial shapes. Pick the one that fits.

Dedicated development team

A senior developer — or a small team — reserved for you full-time, working your hours, in your tools, on whatever you point them at. The lowest effective rate we offer, and roughly a third of what the same seniority costs to employ in the US. This is the model most long-term clients settle into.

Starts at $4,800/month

Fixed-price project

Send a brief or a design file. Within two business days you get a written scope, a fixed price, and a delivery date, and we hold both. Best for defined builds with a clear finish line.

Starts at $2,500

Maintenance retainer

A set number of hours each month for updates, fixes, performance work, and the small requests that arrive on Fridays. Unused hours roll over one month.

Starts at $750/month

Scoping, project management, QA, and a documented handover are included in every engagement. Those are not line items.

How pricing works

How an engagement runs

From first conversation to handover.

01 / 05
Discovery call
Thirty minutes. We look at what you are trying to build, what already exists, and what the real constraints are. No pitch deck, no slides.
02 / 05
Written scope & fixed quote
Within two business days you receive a written scope, a fixed price, and a delivery date. Anything ambiguous gets asked about now, not discovered in week three. The quote lists what is included and, just as importantly, what is not.
03 / 05
Build, with a demo every week
One project manager owns your account and reports where you already work — Slack, email, Jira, ClickUp, Basecamp. You get a staging URL in the first week and a working demo every Friday, so nothing is a surprise at delivery.
04 / 05
Launch & handover
Deployment, testing across devices, and a handover pack: documented setup, environment notes, credentials, and a walkthrough recording. Your team can maintain the work without calling us.
05 / 05
After launch
Thirty days of bug fixes on delivered scope at no cost. After that, a maintenance retainer if you want one, or nothing at all if you do not.

Selected work

Recent projects.

A slice of the work. Where a project was delivered under an agency’s brand, the work is described and the credit stays with them.

Top Class Actions

US legal media · WordPress development

Ongoing development for a consumer legal news platform serving millions of readers a month, including custom post architecture, editorial tooling, and performance work across a large content library.

Top Dog Law

US personal injury · Build & performance

Website build and Core Web Vitals remediation for a national personal injury firm operating across multiple markets.

Vistex

Enterprise software · Enterprise web

Web development for an enterprise software company with operations across several continents, working alongside internal engineering and brand teams.

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Full-stack delivery: 14+ yrsFull-stack delivery
Daily working hours: 8–4 CSTDaily working hours
Bug fixes after launch: 30 daysBug fixes after launch
IP assigned to the client: 100%IP assigned to the client

Why clients stay

What working with us actually looks like.

A full US workday

Online 8 AM to 4 PM CST, so your question is answered today.

Senior developers only

Nobody learns on your budget, and everything is reviewed before it reaches you.

One point of contact

A single project manager who reports in your channel and speaks in outcomes.

You own everything

Full IP assignment on every engagement, nothing licensed back to us.

A handover you can use

Documentation, environment notes, and a walkthrough recording with every delivery.

Capacity that scales

Add a developer for a busy quarter and scale back when it ends, with no hiring or payroll.

Industries

Where we have delivered the most.

Legal & legal marketing

High-traffic content platforms, intake systems, multi-location firm sites.

Ecommerce & retail

Shopify and WooCommerce storefronts, custom checkout and fulfillment logic.

Enterprise & B2B software

Marketing platforms, product sites, internal tooling.

Agencies & studios

White-label delivery across every practice above.

Testimonials

What clients say.

Throughout our partnership with Code Nation, they have consistently been timely, knowledgeable, and dependable. Syed was always available to answer questions, troubleshoot issues, and provide solutions. They have been a valuable extension of our team.

Erica LizotteWeb Development Manager · Cork Tree Creative

I hired Syed as a Senior WordPress Developer when I was IT Director at Top Class Actions. Dependable, sharp, hardworking, constantly learning. I have been in tech 20+ years. Syed is in the top tier.

Adam VanBuskirkFormer IT Director · Top Class Actions

Syed is great to work with. Incredibly responsive and delivers a high quality of work. He cares about outcomes and will be an asset on any development project and development team.

Kyle TassinariChief Marketing Officer · TopDog Law

He consistently brings a thoughtful, solutions-oriented approach to every project and is always reliable when challenges arise. Beyond the technical skills, he is simply a pleasure to work with.

Sarah MirandoHead of Digital Strategy · Legal Marketing

FAQ

Questions we get on the first call.

A description of the outcome and whatever assets exist — a design file, a spec, a screen recording, or a competitor URL. If the brief is thin we will tell you what is missing rather than padding the number to cover the unknown.

Tell us what you are building.

Thirty minutes, no pitch. We look at the project, tell you what it would cost and how long it would take, and say so plainly if it is not something we should be building for you. If you would rather test us than talk to us, send one small paid project instead.

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