Working with clients in the US, UK and worldwide

The windows are morning (10 am – 1 pm), afternoon (2 – 5 pm), evening (6 – 8 pm), Indian Standard Time. The booking box on the contact form reads your browser's timezone and labels every window on your own clock, so you are never converting hours in your head.

1. 01

   Discovery call

   We walk through how the work happens today, where it breaks and what a good result looks like.

2. 02

   Scope & plan

   Workflow, data model and the smallest useful first version, agreed in writing with clear milestones.

3. 03

   Design & build

   Built in short iterations with regular demos, so you see working software early and steer it.

4. 04

   Launch & handover

   Deployed to your own hosting and repository. The code, data and accounts are yours.

5. 05

   Support

   Monitoring, fixes and new features after launch, as an ongoing maintenance engagement.

Describe what you need and you get a scoped quote with milestones and dates before any work starts. If the number does not suit the budget, the scope is what changes, in writing, not the quality of what gets built.

What is your hourly rate?

From $25 an hour (about £20 or ₹2,000), quoted in US dollars. That is deliberately just under the Indian market average for this level of work, and well under the $53–84 an hour the same mid-level work is quoted at in the UK or the $85–135 in the US. Most engagements are not billed hourly though: the rate is what a fixed-scope quote is built from, and you pay against agreed milestones. Hourly billing is for small changes and ongoing work. Bank, platform and currency-conversion charges are paid by the client, so the amount quoted is the amount received.

Can you work US or UK hours?

Partly, and it is worth being exact about it. I work from India (IST, UTC+5:30), so my evening is the UK's early afternoon and the US East Coast's morning, and my morning is the evening before on the US West Coast. Calls run in one of three windows and the booking form shows each one on your own clock, so you are never converting time zones in your head. Between calls the work moves on written updates, so you are not waiting for an overlap to find out where things stand.

Who owns the code and the accounts?

You do. The work is deployed to your own hosting and your own repository, and the code, the data and the accounts are handed over at launch. Nothing is locked to a platform only I can log into.

Can we sign a contract or an NDA?

Send yours over before we get into the details and we will work from it. If you would rather not handle the paperwork at all, hiring through Fiverr or Upwork puts their contract, milestones and escrow around the work instead.

How do payments work across currencies?

Quoted in US dollars, and the bank, platform and currency-conversion charges are paid by the client, so the amount quoted is the amount received. Two routes for the money itself: through Fiverr or Upwork, where the contract, the milestones and the conversion are handled for you and the funds sit in escrow until a milestone is accepted; or directly, if your finance team would rather invoice and pay a contractor the usual way. Say which you prefer in your first message.

Can you take over something another developer started?

Tell me what exists — the repository, where it is hosted, what works and what doesn't — and you will get a straight answer about what can be picked up as it is, what needs rewriting, and what I would not touch. That assessment comes before any quote, not after.

How do I know what is happening if we are rarely online together?

Short written updates as the work moves, a demo of the working software at each milestone so you can steer it early, and a reply to anything you send within 24 hours. The milestone plan agreed at the start is the reference point throughout.