1 Week Sites builds bespoke Next.js websites for Manchester founders, SaaS teams, and studios — one site a week, £1,000 flat, paid upfront, with a full refund within 48 hours if the site is not live by day seven. I am not a Manchester agency with a MediaCityUK office; I am a UK solo studio that works with Manchester clients remotely, with a video-call brief on Monday and a live site by Sunday. Over five years the cost typically lands around £1,300 — £1,000 for the build plus roughly £60 a year for domain and email on providers you control. That compares to £5,000–£20,000 plus retainer for a Manchester agency, or £1,800–£5,000 for a Manchester freelancer. You own the code, the GitHub repo, the Vercel hosting account, and the domain from day one. Seven days from brief to live.
Manchester, specifically
Manchester has the strongest tech cluster outside London — the Northern Quarter, Ancoats, MediaCityUK, and a steady flow of SaaS founders coming out of the university and the consultancy base. The typical pain point for Manchester clients is that their product is already fast — React, TypeScript, proper testing, proper observability — and the marketing site is a creaky WordPress install that drags mobile Lighthouse into the 40s. That is embarrassing when your own investors run a Lighthouse audit before a second meeting. A bespoke Next.js marketing site matches the product's engineering standards, loads fast, passes Core Web Vitals, and does not require a plugin update at 11pm on a Friday. Manchester clients also tend to have tight copy because they already write their own launch posts.
How remote works for Manchester
Same seven-day week, same shape, wherever you are in the UK. Monday video-call brief, Tuesday design, Wednesday to Friday build, Saturday revisions, Sunday launch. Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston is around 2h, to Leeds is 55 minutes, to Liverpool Lime Street is 45 minutes — a day-trip kickoff workshop is realistic for a larger brief. For the standard sprint, remote is faster. Most Manchester SaaS clients pick remote because their own team already operates remote-first; the brief, design review, and launch handover all run on the same video-call and GitHub PR rhythm they use every day.
What Manchester websites typically cost
| Option | Typical cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Manchester agency | £5,000–£20,000 | Usually plus £400–£1,200/mo retainer |
| Manchester freelancer | £1,800–£5,000 | Timeline typically 4–10 weeks |
| 1 Week Sites | £1,000 flat | Seven days, one revision round, full refund if missed |
The seven-day week
Same week, same shape, wherever you are in the UK. 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.
Manchester-specific questions
Do you work on-site in Manchester?
Not for the standard sprint — remote runs faster. Happy to come to Manchester for a kickoff workshop or a larger brief. Travel is on me; the £1,000 flat fee does not change.
Can you invoice a Manchester Ltd or VAT-registered business?
Yes. UK sole trader invoice — VAT not currently charged. Bank transfer on the day the brief is signed off.
Have you built marketing sites for Manchester SaaS teams?
Happy to do the first one. The seven-day sprint is particularly good for SaaS launches because the scope is usually tight — home, product, pricing, changelog, about, contact — and the brand work is already done. Anything that needs a build pipeline beyond a marketing site (app, dashboard) is out of scope; for the marketing site, £1,000 flat, seven days.
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 retainer. You pay for your own domain (≈£12/year) and email hosting (≈£4/month).
What happens if you miss day seven?
Full refund within 48 hours, no arguments.
Who owns the finished site?
You do. Code in your GitHub, hosting on your Vercel, domain on your registrar.
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 — in Manchester or anywhere else in the UK.