What happens if you miss day 7?

Full refund within 48 hours. The deadline is the product. If I miss it, you do not owe anything. No kill fee, no partial, no debate.

What is included in the £1,000?

Brief, bespoke design, Next.js build, QA, and launch on your domain. Domain and hosting costs are paid directly to the providers. No retainers, no upsells.

How many revisions do I get?

One round, same week. Built into the schedule. Scope changes that break the seven-day window roll into a second sprint at a fresh quote.

Who owns the code when it is done?

You do. Fully. The repository transfers to your GitHub, the Vercel project to your account, and the domain stays on your registrar. No lock-in.

What kind of sites is this not right for?

Multi-thousand-page catalogues, heavy e-commerce with bespoke checkout, or anything blocked by someone else's integration roadmap. Flagged on the discovery call — no obligation if it's not a fit.

How much does a website cost in the UK in 2026?

A UK small-business website costs £0 for DIY Squarespace or Wix, £1,000 to £3,000 for a bespoke flat-fee build from a solo studio or freelancer, £3,000 to £8,000 at a small design studio, and £8,000 to £25,000 at a mid-sized agency. 1 Week Sites charges £1,000 flat for a bespoke Next.js site delivered in seven days.

What is a bespoke website?

A bespoke website is designed from scratch for one business, hand-coded in a real framework rather than assembled from a template or drag-and-drop builder, and owned outright by the buyer. The design is original, the code is standard and portable, and there is no platform lock-in.

Should I choose Squarespace, Wix, or a bespoke website?

Choose Squarespace for design-led small businesses that want a polished site without a developer. Choose Wix for flexibility and extension-heavy sites on a budget. Choose a bespoke site when speed, distinctiveness, or code ownership matter commercially — the five-year total cost flips in favour of bespoke at around 40 months against a £25-per-month plan.

Where are you based and do you work remotely?

1 Week Sites is UK-based and remote-first. Clients across Great Britain work with me over email, a shared brief document, and one short call on Monday. No mandatory in-person meetings or workshop days.

How do I pay and is it safe to pay upfront?

Payment is by bank transfer or Stripe invoice, in full, before work starts. The refund guarantee is the safety mechanism — if the site is not live on day seven, 100% is refunded within 48 hours. No deposits, no milestone gating.

Do you offer ongoing support or retainers after launch?

No. No retainers, no monthly fees. The site is transferred to the client in full. Later changes can be booked as a second sprint at a fresh quote, or handed to any developer — the code is standard Next.js and React, documented for handover.

Do you provide copywriting and photography?

Copy polishing is included — clients provide the substance and I tighten the wording. Photography is not included. Clients bring real photos or commission them separately. Stock imagery is never used on a bespoke 1 Week Sites build.

Will my site pass Core Web Vitals and WCAG accessibility?

Yes. Every site ships with a Lighthouse score of 95 or higher across all four categories on mobile, LCP under 2.5 seconds, INP under 200 milliseconds, CLS under 0.1, and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility. These are non-negotiable, part of the pre-launch checklist.

Can I edit the site myself after it launches?

Yes for copy — a simple config file or Markdown is set up so wording can be changed without touching code. No for structural changes like new pages or layout rethinks — those need a developer, which can be me or anyone else.

Bespoke websites for SaaS founders — £1,000, 7 days

1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js marketing websites for UK SaaS founders, bootstrappers, and indie hackers — £1,000 flat, paid upfront, live in seven days, with a full refund within 48 hours if I miss day seven. Most early-stage founders I meet burn two or three weeks on a marketing site while the product stands still — pulling Tailwind UI kits into a Webflow project, then patching CMS quirks for another fortnight. A bespoke Next.js 16 build gives you a fast, accessible marketing site on the same stack as the product, MDX for blog posts, a Stripe or Paddle integration if pricing is public, and a codebase your own engineers can extend. Over five years the total sits around £1,300 — £1,000 build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email. Seven days from brief to live.

What a SaaS-site visitor actually wants

The visitor is usually a prospective user coming from a Google Ads click, a HackerNews post, or a founder-peer referral. They want four things in fifteen seconds: a crisp one-liner of what the product does, a hero screenshot or short demo that proves it is real, pricing without a 'contact sales' gate for at least the lower tiers, and a frictionless start — free trial, free tier, or a sandbox. They do not want a carousel of customer logos that are actually logo-sized, a 'trusted by' row with no actual names, or a hero that reads 'the modern platform for...'. The best SaaS marketing sites I see ship in the same style as the product — same typography, same tone, same level of attention to performance and accessibility — so the visitor feels continuity when they sign up.

What most SaaS marketing sites get wrong

Vague hero copy — 'the modern platform for teams' describes nothing.
Fake-looking customer logos that are actually logo-sized or from free-plan users.
Pricing behind 'contact sales' for a £29/mo product — kills trial conversions.
Demo video autoplaying with sound — one of the worst UX decisions in SaaS.
Blog lit on a completely different tech stack (WordPress) with inconsistent type.
Marketing site stack (Webflow) the engineering team cannot extend when the growth list lands.

What a good SaaS brief includes

Four things locked on Monday ship the week. One, a one-line product statement — what it does, for whom, instead of what. Two, pricing decision: public tiers, 'contact for enterprise' only, or free-trial-first. Three, hero media — screenshot, short video, or Lottie — in the resolution and frame rate you actually have now, not after a 'proper demo shoot'. Four, primary and secondary CTAs: start trial, book demo, or view docs. The brief template sorts the rest.

The seven-day week

Same week, same shape, whoever you are. Brief Monday, design Tuesday, build Wednesday to Friday, revisions Saturday, launch Sunday. One site a week, one client at a time.

Monday — sixty-minute video-call brief, scope and copy locked.
Tuesday — design in Figma, one route shown to sign-off.
Wednesday–Friday — build in Next.js, Tailwind, TypeScript.
Saturday — one round of revisions, real copy and imagery.
Sunday — launch to your Vercel, DNS on your registrar, full handover.

SaaS founders-specific questions

Is Next.js 16 right for a marketing site next to a React product?

Yes — it is the same runtime and component model your engineers already use, so the marketing site is extendable (pricing page experiments, new feature pages, landing-page A/B tests) without context-switching. Blog posts in MDX, components reused from the product, same CI/CD on Vercel.

Can you wire Stripe or Paddle checkout to a public pricing page?

Yes — a direct Stripe Checkout or Paddle overlay for the self-serve tier, with a simple 'book a demo' flow (Calendly/Cal.com) for enterprise. Public pricing tends to out-convert 'contact sales' gates for anything under roughly £500/mo.

Will the marketing site feed leads to our CRM?

Yes — HubSpot, Pipedrive, Attio, Close, and similar via form handoff or webhook. For early-stage, a simple email notification plus a spreadsheet works; for later-stage, a proper CRM sync. Both patterns ship in a day.

Common questions

Is £1,000 really all-in, or do I pay extra later?

£1,000 is all-in for a five-to-seven-page bespoke marketing site: brief, design, build, one revision round, launch. No monthly fee, no retainer, no kill fee. You pay for your own domain (≈£12/year) and email hosting (≈£4/month). Nothing goes through me.

What happens if you miss day seven?

Full refund within 48 hours, no arguments. I take the loss — that's what keeps the deadline real. It has not happened yet and the guarantee is what stops it happening.

Who owns the finished site?

You do, fully. The code lives in a GitHub repo transferred to your account. The Vercel hosting project is on your Vercel account. The domain is on your registrar. You can hire any Next.js developer to take it forward — nothing is locked to me.

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Bespoke, live in seven days.

£1,000 flat. Paid upfront. Full refund if I miss day seven. Code, hosting, and domain all in your name — whether you are a SaaS founder in Liverpool or London.

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