P
Paulo Ferreira
Engineer · full-stack
Builds the platforms an art school runs on by day, and can't stop making things after hours. SvelteKit, TypeScript, Go, Elixir — plus the occasional record cut in the living room.
FOUR PEOPLE seek
WEB-SHAPED
problems.
For people who hate agencies.
Productized web agency, est. 2026, Vila do Conde-based, would like a thing to build. Will trade hours, months, or milestones for euros. No discovery call, no deck, no "transformation."
- Trade
- Code, design, the occasional dunk
- Will accept
- On-demand · Retainer · Project
- Won't accept
- Crypto, gambling, MLM, AI girlfriends or porn, decks
- Reply
- Within 2 days, from a human
Apply within → hello@nfstudio.io
WE DON'T DO DISCOVERY CALLS WE READ YOUR WEBSITE WE WRITE YOU BACK IN TWO DAYS WE DON'T USE THE WORD 'JOURNEY' WE HAVE NO BRAND DECK WE'LL SEND YOU AN INVOICE, NOT A KEYNOTE WE DON'T BELIEVE IN SYNERGY WE BUILD THE THING WE DON'T DO DISCOVERY CALLS WE READ YOUR WEBSITE WE WRITE YOU BACK IN TWO DAYS WE DON'T USE THE WORD 'JOURNEY' WE HAVE NO BRAND DECK WE'LL SEND YOU AN INVOICE, NOT A KEYNOTE WE DON'T BELIEVE IN SYNERGY WE BUILD THE THING
THREE WAYS
to hire us.
NONE AWKWARD.
A thing is broken. We fix the thing.
Pay per task. Drop the brief in our portal, get a quote within a day, ship within a week. No retainer, no minimums, no opening a Slack instance for a 3-hour job.
- Tasks under 4 hours, billed flat
- Same-day quote, usually
- Stripe Checkout, one click, done
- We don't ghost when it's small
PRICES,
side by side.
| Feature | On-demand €250/task starting | Retainer €2,200/month starting | Project €18,000starting from |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement | |||
| How it bills | Per task | Monthly subscription | Per milestone |
| Minimum commitment | 1 task | 1 month | Scope-dependent |
| Hours included | Up to 4 / task | 20, 40, or 80 / month | Whatever it takes |
| Lock-in | None | None — cancel any time | Milestone refunds |
| Response | |||
| First quote | Within 24 hrs | Onboarded in 5 days | 5–7 working days |
| Median ship time | 3 days | Same week | 8–12 weeks |
| Dedicated PM | — No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Slack channel | — No | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| What's included | |||
| Bug fixes & tweaks | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Net-new features | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Custom design | add-on | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Hosting & deploys | add-on | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| QBR / strategy | — No | — No | — No |
| 47-slide deck | — No | — No | — No |
| Sales tax (VAT) added at checkout where it applies. Prices in euros. | Pick on-demand → | Pick retainer → | Pick project → |
SELECTED WORK,
shipped & out the door.
No. Project · Client Engagement Year Stack
- 01 ESAD Education · Matosinhos Project — Institutional 2024 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Directus
- 02 Porto Design Biennale Cultural · Porto Project — Event site 2025 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Directus
- 03 Blue Design Alliance Education · Porto Project — Platform 2024 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Directus
- 04 Netzwerk Bindung Nonprofit · Zürich Project — Member network 2024 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Directus
- 05 Budda Guedes Music · Porto Project — Artist site 2024 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS
- 06 privacy-first ai desktop tooling Confidential · Switzerland Project — Desktop app 2025 Electron · Svelte 5 · TypeScript
- 07 swiss software firm specializing in privacy-first ai for orgs that can't put sensitive data in the cloud. Confidential · Switzerland Project — Brand site 2024 SvelteKit · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS
More work on request Get in touch →
FOUR PEOPLE,
ONE COAST, everything upfront.
nfstudio started in 2026, on the Atlantic coast in Vila do Conde. It came out of a simple annoyance: freelance offers kept landing in one inbox, and every one turned into the same scramble to parcel work out to the same few people we trust.
So we made it the front door instead of the workaround. Four people — design, front-end, back-end — with decades of combined experience between us. We bill in euros, file taxes in Portugal, and ship from wherever we are. Everything upfront: scope, price, who does what.
We don't have a manifesto, a values page, or a brand book. We have a scope document, an invoice template, and the strong opinion that those are usually enough.
M
Maria Pinto
UX/UI designer
Designs the parts you actually touch. Came up at Canvas and led the Barkin mobile app from blank screen to ship.
J
Joana Brito
Designer · front-end
Designs and builds, with a soft spot for illustration. The work with character on this site is usually hers.
J
João Mendes
Back-end developer
Keeps the parts you don't see fast and boring, in the good way. Go and Node/TypeScript, APIs and the plumbing behind them.
HOW THE
sausage GETS
MADE.
01
Brief
You tell us what you want. In writing. We don't read minds for €150/hr.
Day 1
02
Scope
We write down what we'll do, what we won't, what it costs, and when it'll be done. You sign it.
Days 2–3
03
Build
We build. We send screenshots and short Looms. You complain. We adjust. Repeat until it's right.
Weeks 1–N
04
Ship
It goes live. We don't disappear the next morning. (Unless that was the deal.)
Launch day
QUESTIONS,
mostly hostile.
No. We've tried. It ends in tears or in cap-table-cleanup invoices nobody wants to pay. Cash is fine.
Yes, ours. We don't sign 14-page mutual NDAs to talk about a landing page.
Probably not tomorrow. Probably next week. We try to keep ~20% capacity open for fires.
No. We write code, scope docs, and very pointed emails.
We will not.
Not really. We have a designer who'll do one if we like you. Don't ask twice.
SEND US
a thing.
Send us a thing. If it's interesting we write back inside two days. If it isn't, we still write back, just slower. Either way: an actual human, no chatbot.
Email hello@nfstudio.io
Found in Vila do Conde
Hours Mon–Thu, 09–18 WET · Fri we ship
Not for us Crypto, gambling, MLM, AI girlfriends or porn, anything described as "Uber for X," anything that says "disruptive" twice.