United States
Web development for US businesses
A Lahore studio building for American businesses and founders — full custom design and development at a fraction of US agency rates, with the person who takes your brief also writing the code.
Posteroids builds websites and web applications for US businesses from a studio in Lahore, Pakistan. Websites start at $600 and web applications at $3,000 — typically 70–90% below comparable US agency pricing, because the cost base is different, not because the scope is smaller. Lahore is UTC+5, which overlaps the US East Coast morning. Every project starts with a free demo page delivered before any invoice exists.
The real arithmetic
A US agency quoting a small business website at $10,000–$30,000 is not overcharging. They are paying US salaries, US rent, US healthcare and a sales team, and the number follows from that. The same is true of a $150-an-hour American freelancer.
What is being sold here is not cheaper work. It is the same work from a place where $3,000 supports a month of focused engineering rather than a week of it. That is the whole arbitrage, and it is worth saying plainly instead of dressing it up as efficiency.
| What you are building | Typical US agency | US freelancer | Posteroids |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio / personal site | $3,000 – $8,000 | $1,500 – $4,000 | $600 – $1,500 |
| Small business / B2B site | $8,000 – $25,000 | $3,000 – $10,000 | $1,200 – $3,500 |
| E-commerce storefront | $10,000 – $40,000 | $4,000 – $15,000 | $1,500 – $4,000 |
| Web app / MVP | $40,000 – $150,000 | $15,000 – $60,000 | $3,000 – $12,000 |
| Monthly maintenance | $500 – $2,500/mo | $300 – $1,000/mo | $150/mo |
US figures are widely reported market ranges for comparable scope, given for orientation rather than as a quote from any named firm. Posteroids figures are the studio’s own published ranges.
The questions worth asking before you hire anyone offshore
| The worry | The honest answer |
|---|---|
| "I pay and then never hear from them" | You pay nothing to see the work. A real page of your actual site arrives on a live link before any invoice exists. |
| "The time zone is impossible" | Lahore is UTC+5 — nine or ten hours ahead of New York, twelve or thirteen ahead of California. The overlap is the US morning: something sent at 8am Eastern is read the same day, and you wake up to work done overnight. It is genuinely good for East Coast clients and genuinely awkward for West Coast ones, and you should factor that in. |
| "I will get a project manager, not a builder" | You get the builder. Posteroids is a small studio and the person who takes the brief writes the code. |
| "Who owns the code?" | You do — repository, hosting accounts and domain, from day one. The stack is conventional on purpose so a US developer can take it over without a rescue project. |
| "How do payments work?" | Invoiced in USD, paid by international bank transfer or the usual rails. W-8BEN available if your accountant asks for one. |
What it costs
| What you are building | USD | PKR (approx.) | GBP (approx.) | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio site | $600 – $1,500 | PKR 170,000 – PKR 420,000 | £470 – £1,200 | 1–2 wks |
| B2B company site | $1,200 – $3,500 | PKR 335,000 – PKR 980,000 | £900 – £2,700 | 2–3 wks |
| B2C storefront | $1,500 – $4,000 | PKR 420,000 – PKR 1.1m | £1,200 – £3,100 | 2–4 wks |
| Web app / MVP | $3,000 – $12,000 | PKR 840,000 – PKR 3.4m | £2,300 – £9,400 | 4–8 wks |
| Redesign & rescue | $500 – $2,000 | PKR 140,000 – PKR 560,000 | £390 – £1,600 | 1–2 wks |
| Care & feeding | $150/mo | PKR 40,000/mo | £120/mo | Ongoing |
Where a US agency is the better call
- You need someone physically present — on-site workshops, in-person stakeholder sessions, a board that will not sign off remotely.
- You are in a regulated industry where the compliance burden (HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP) is the actual project.
- You need contractual recourse in a US court, or your procurement requires a domestic supplier.
- You need a team deep enough that one person being unavailable does not stop the work.
For most small businesses, founders and solo operators, none of those bind — and the premium is buying geography rather than quality.
How a project runs
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Brief
You describe what you are building. Fifteen minutes, no deck required.
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Free demo
We build one real page of your actual site and send you the link. Not a mockup, not a Figma file — a working page you can open on your phone. You keep it whether or not you continue.
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Build
Design and build happen in the open on a live URL. You see progress daily and change your mind while changing it is still cheap.
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Launch
Fast, indexed, responsive, on your own domain. Analytics wired, forms tested, nothing left dangling.
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Aftercare
Edits, fixes and new sections on request. We do not disappear after the invoice clears.
Questions US clients ask
- How much does it cost to build a website in the US?
- US agencies typically quote $8,000–$25,000 for a small business website and $40,000–$150,000 for a web application; US freelancers roughly a third of that. Posteroids builds comparable scope for $600–$3,500 for websites and $3,000–$12,000 for web apps. The difference is cost base — Lahore salaries and overheads against American ones — not scope.
- Is it safe to hire a web developer in Pakistan?
- The risk is concentrated almost entirely in paying before you have seen anything real. Posteroids removes that by building a live page of your actual site and sending you the link before any invoice exists. Beyond that, the general rules apply wherever you hire: own the repository and domain from day one, insist on a conventional stack another developer can take over, and pay in stages against delivered work.
- What time zone are you in and does it work with US hours?
- Lahore is UTC+5 — nine or ten hours ahead of New York and twelve or thirteen ahead of Los Angeles. The overlap is the US morning, which works well for East Coast clients and is genuinely more awkward for the West Coast. Most communication is asynchronous: you send changes in your evening and they are done when you wake up.
- Can you sign an NDA and a contract?
- Yes. An NDA before the brief if you want one, and a written scope and payment schedule before work starts. W-8BEN is available for your accounting.
- Do you work with US startups on MVPs?
- Yes — that is what the $3,000–$12,000 web app range is for. A first version with accounts, a core feature, admin tooling and billing lands in four to eight weeks. For a founder pre-revenue or pre-seed, that is often the difference between testing an idea and not.
- How do I know the quality is there before I commit?
- You do not have to take it on faith. The free demo is one real page of your own site, built properly, on a live URL — inspect it, run it through PageSpeed, open it on your phone, show it to a developer friend. That is a far better signal than a portfolio of screenshots.
Everything Posteroids builds
- Portfolio Site$600 – $1,500 · 1–2 wks
- B2B Company Site$1,200 – $3,500 · 2–3 wks
- B2C / Storefront$1,500 – $4,000 · 2–4 wks
- Web App / MVP$3,000 – $12,000 · 4–8 wks
- Redesign & Rescue$500 – $2,000 · 1–2 wks
- Care & Feeding$150/mo · Ongoing
- What websites actually cost in the USMarket guide
- Hiring a developer abroad without getting burnedGuide
Last reviewed 2026-08-03 · Posteroids, Lahore, Pakistan · posteroids.official@gmail.com