LA founders who want a senior developer to build their product — not an agency to staff it.
Los Angeles has a growing startup ecosystem across creator economy, healthtech, and e-commerce. Most LA agencies charge for presence they don't deliver. RCB Software delivers senior web application development to Los Angeles clients at fixed prices, with the same accountability you'd expect from the best developer in your network. Remote-first.
You're based in Los Angeles and need a web application built — not a templated website, a real product with auth, data, and business logic. You want a developer who takes accountability for the outcome.
Los Angeles's startup ecosystem has grown significantly — particularly in creator economy tools, direct-to-consumer brands, digital health, and entertainment technology. The development shops serving this ecosystem range from excellent to deeply mediocre, and the price signals don't reliably distinguish them. An LA agency charging $180/hour can produce the same quality work as one charging $90/hour, or worse. The agency billing model obfuscates the actual value being delivered.
LA-based founders face the same developer market dynamics as founders everywhere: the best developers don't need to work for agencies; they have their own clients and work on fixed-price projects. The talent that's actually available at LA agencies is the talent that prefers stable employment to the uncertainty of independent project work — which is a legitimate preference, but doesn't mean the work is better.
The LA-specific development challenge is the creative and media verticals: creator economy platforms, content management tools for production companies, ticketing and event platforms, and direct-to-consumer e-commerce with complex product catalogues. These verticals have specific workflow requirements that generic business application developers haven't encountered. The payment models are also often non-standard — creator payout splits, brand deal tracking, rights management, royalty calculation.
A production web application delivered to Los Angeles-based founders and operators at fixed scope and fixed price — built on the modern stack that scales.
Creator economy tools
Platforms that connect brands with creators, tools that manage creator campaigns, creator marketplace products with payout splits via Stripe Connect, and analytics dashboards that track creator performance metrics.
Consumer product and DTC platforms
Custom e-commerce backends for LA-based DTC brands that have outgrown Shopify's flexibility. Subscription box management, configurable product builders, and wholesale ordering portals.
Digital health applications
HIPAA-compliant patient portals, telehealth booking systems, and care coordination tools for LA's significant digital health startup ecosystem.
Entertainment industry tools
Production management tools, rights and licensing management systems, talent marketplace platforms, and the scheduling and crew management applications specific to production workflows.
Standard web application development
SaaS MVPs, internal tools, client portals, and the full range of web application types, regardless of vertical.
One honest number to start.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price. The number below is the starting point — final scope is built from your brief.
A production web application delivered to Los Angeles-based founders and operators at fixed scope and fixed price — built on the modern stack that scales.
Three steps, every time.
The same repeatable engagement on every project. No surprises, no mystery, no billable ambiguity.
Brief & discovery.
We send you questions, then get on a call. Output: a written scope with every step, feature, and integration listed.
Build & ship.
Fixed schedule, weekly reviews. No scope creep unless you change the scope — and if you do, we reprice it transparently.
Warranty & retainer.
30-day warranty on every launch. Most clients stay on a monthly retainer for ongoing features and maintenance.
Why Fixed-Price Matters Here
LA clients have been told "it'll be about X" and invoiced for 3X too many times. Fixed scope, fixed price.
Related engagements.
Questions, answered.
Not by default — remote-first is the standard. For LA clients who want an in-person kickoff, it can be arranged. The development work is done remotely.
Yes — Figma handoff from a designer is a common project starting point. The design-to-development handoff process is clearly defined: component inventory, design system documentation, responsive breakpoints specified, and handoff review before development starts.
Creator economy, e-commerce/DTC, healthtech, and entertainment technology. The domain knowledge within these verticals (what the specific workflows are, what third-party systems they integrate with) reduces the scope definition time and the risk of misunderstood requirements.
Same pricing as everywhere — location doesn't change the price. Web applications from $25k, mobile platforms from $45k, websites from $8k. Fixed-price.
Reach out with a description of what you need to build. We'll schedule a scoping call, I'll ask the questions that define the spec, and you'll receive a written specification and fixed price within a week of the scoping call.
Tell Ryel about your project.
Describe what you’re building and what outcome you need. You’ll have a written, fixed-price scope within the week.