Northlight LLC
Typical work
- Web applications and customer portals
- HTTP APIs and integrations between systems
- Internal tools and back-office automation
- Native Android applications
- Data import, migration and clean-up
Services
Software development, application hosting, and IT consulting services.
Three services, each done by the studio itself. What follows is what each one actually includes — and where it ends.
Service 01
Software development
Custom software written to a scope agreed in advance: web applications, HTTP APIs, internal tools that replace a spreadsheet nobody trusts any more, and native Android applications.
Work is delivered in increments you can look at and react to. Scope, price and delivery date are written down before the first line of code; changes are re-quoted rather than quietly absorbed.
At handover you receive the source code in a repository you own, the instructions needed to build and deploy it, and a written summary of how it fits together. Nothing is held back as leverage.
What you get
- A written scope with a fixed price
- Source code in your own repository
- Build and deployment instructions
- A written handover document
Service 02
Application hosting
Launching software is the easy half. Application hosting covers the other half: deploying it, watching it, patching it and being able to restore it.
Applications run on managed cloud infrastructure chosen for the workload rather than for habit. Dependencies and platform versions are kept current, because most security incidents are simply an update that was never applied.
Backups are only worth what a restore proves, so restores get tested rather than assumed. If something breaks, you hear it from us.
Included
- Deployment and release management
- Uptime and error monitoring with alerting
- Dependency and security updates
- Backups with tested restores
- TLS certificates and domain records kept valid
Where it ends
- We host what we build or have taken over deliberately
- We are not a general-purpose web host or reseller
- Infrastructure accounts can stay in your name
Service 03
IT consulting
Sometimes what a team needs is not more code but an outside engineer who reads the system, asks the awkward questions and writes down what they found.
Consulting engagements are time-boxed and end in a document: what the risks are, what they would cost to fix, and which of them are worth fixing now. Recommendations are ranked, not listed.
That includes the unprofitable answer. If an existing product solves your problem better than custom software would, the report says so.
Typical engagements
- Architecture and code review of an existing system
- Technology selection and build-versus-buy assessment
- Privacy and data-protection review of a setup
- Preparing an application for app-store or platform review
- A second opinion on a quote or a plan
Engagement models
Three ways to work together.
Every engagement is agreed in writing before it starts. There is no price list, because a price without a scope is a guess.
Fixed-scope project
A defined piece of work with a written scope, a fixed price and a delivery date. Best when what you need can be described.
Ongoing operation
A monthly arrangement covering hosting, monitoring, updates and small changes to an application already in production.
Advisory
Time-boxed consulting for reviews, technology decisions and second opinions, ending in a written recommendation.
Technology
Chosen on purpose, justified in the proposal.
Technology is picked for how long it will stay maintainable, not for how new it is. Every proposal names what will be used and why, in language you can check.
This site is the same argument in practice: static HTML, CSS and JavaScript, no framework, no build step, self-hosted fonts and no third-party requests. It will still deploy unchanged in five years.
- Mobile
- Kotlin, native Android
- Web front-end
- Standards-based HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Delivery
- Managed cloud and static hosting
- Source control
- Git, review before merge
- Rule of thumb
- Boring, documented, maintainable
Next step
Describe the problem, get a written answer.
A few sentences are enough to start: what it is, roughly when you need it, and what “done” looks like. You get a written reply within one business day.