Why we build on Firebase

When an owner hires us, they're trusting us with their customer list, their jobs and often their payments. The platform underneath matters. We build on Firebase, Google's application platform, and here's why.

1. You own it

Your Firebase project lives in a Google Cloud account that belongs to you, not to us. If we part ways, you keep the site, the data and the keys. No hostage situations, no “export” button that gives you half your data.

2. Security we can reason about

Firebase security rules let us write down, in one file, exactly who can read and write each kind of record: staff see the CRM, customers see only their own orders, the public sees only published pages. We test those rules before launch, and sign-in is invite-only for your team.

3. Costs that scale with you

Firebase charges for what you use. A small business with a few hundred visitors a day often pays very little for hosting and data. As you grow, costs grow gradually instead of jumping to the next pricing tier. (Check Google's current Firebase pricing for the real numbers; they change.)

4. Real-time by default

When a lead comes in, it appears in the back office immediately, on every screen that's open. When an order is placed, inventory updates everywhere. That's how Firestore works out of the box, without extra servers to babysit.

5. Room for the hard parts

Cloud Functions run the server-side work: sending email, taking Stripe payments, calling AI models with your data kept private, generating reports. Storage holds photos, plans and documents. Analytics shows what's working.

What we don't do

We don't lock you into a page builder, and we don't stack monthly plugins until the site costs more than a truck payment. You get a custom app on a platform used by companies of every size, written so another developer could pick it up.

Curious what that looks like in practice? Explore the live demos, which run on the same stack, or see what your software costs you.