7 days · fixed price · fixed scope

A full business website with a CMS, shipped in 7 days

Daysprint's Launch Site is a five-page business website with a headless CMS - a friendly editing screen you own - for $1,800 USD fixed, shipped in 7 days. SEO setup, a 95+ Lighthouse target (Google's own speed benchmark), and no developer needed every time a word changes.

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$ daysprint ship launch-site+ Building launch-site (7 days) Up to 5 pages Headless CMS included SEO setup + sitemap 95+ Lighthouse target First search report ~30 days after launch Delivered in 7 days

[ INCLUDED ]

What the $1,800 website includes

  • Up to 5 pages
  • Headless CMS included
  • SEO setup + sitemap
  • 95+ Lighthouse target
  • First search report ~30 days after launch
site/ home/ services/ about/ blog/ contact/✔ SEO + sitemap✔ 95+ Lighthouse/homeCMS · homeheadlineintrono developer needed

All prices in USD · you own the code · bugs fixed free for 14 days after handover

[ SCENARIOS ]

When a small business needs a real website

Your current website is old enough that you apologise for it before sending the link.

You're a small service business whose customers Google you before calling - and right now that first impression is a Facebook page.

You have a launch page working hard and it's time for the full build: services, about, proof, contact - each pulling weight.

You've been meaning to sort the website out for two years.

[ PROCESS ]

Brief to launch, in one view

  1. BRIEF

    Send the brief

    About two minutes in the form below. Guided questions turn your answers into a structured brief as you go. Links help more than polish: an existing site, a repo, API docs, whatever you already have.

  2. INSTANT

    The acknowledgment

    Lands while you're still on this page. It plays your brief back and confirms what happens next:

    [ view the exact email ]
    inbox: the acknowledgment
    Subject: Got your brief - fixed quote within 1 business day
    
    Hi [your name],
    
    Thanks for the brief - it's in the queue. You'll have a written fixed quote (or a couple of clarifying questions) within 1 business day.
    
    What you sent:
    
    Package: Launch Site - $1,800
    Timeline: [your timeline]
    Brief: [your brief, exactly as you wrote it]
    
    Anything to add - links, repo access, context - just reply to this email.
    
    - Dan
    Daysprint · https://www.daysprint.dev
  3. 1 BIZ DAY

    The sitemap, then the quote

    Your brief becomes a named sitemap: every page, its job, and the action it asks for. The fixed quote prices those pages by name, so adding a sixth one later gets its own quote and its own ship date.

    [ view the quote shape ]
    inbox: the written quote
    Subject: Your Daysprint quote - Launch Site
    
    Scope:
    Pages:
    • [page] - [what it's for, and the action it asks for]
    • [page] - [one line per page, up to five]
    
    Included:
    • Up to 5 pages
    • Headless CMS included
    • SEO setup + sitemap
    • 95+ Lighthouse target
    • First search report ~30 days after launch
    
    Price: $1,800 USD
    Delivery: 7 days from deposit and materials received
    
    Terms: 50% deposit · balance on delivery · 1 revision round · 14-day warranty · valid 7 days

    The shape every quote takes. Yours is written against your brief, and anything in [brackets] becomes a real number before it reaches you.

  4. DEPOSIT

    You accept, the clock starts

    Reply to accept and the 50% deposit invoice follows. The build clock starts when the deposit and your materials land, and the ship date goes in writing the same day.

  5. DAYS 1–2

    Structure and direction

    Your agreed sitemap becomes page-by-page copy structure and a design direction, over preview links rather than meetings.

  6. DAYS 3–5

    The build

    Pages implemented on the CMS with the preview link updated as sections land, so you watch it take shape.

  7. DAYS 6–7

    Revise, load, launch

    Your revision round, then your content loaded, a CMS walkthrough so you can edit everything yourself, SEO and performance checks, and launch on your domain.

  8. SHIP

    Delivery and handover

    The balance is invoiced on delivery. Repo and accounts transfer to you, my access goes away, and the handover email covers what shipped and how to change it.

  9. +14D

    The warranty window

    Bugs in what shipped are fixed free for 14 days from handover. After that you have the code, the docs and no dependency on me.

  10. +30D

    The first search report

    About 30 days after launch you get a report of what Google did with the site: impressions, clicks, and a baseline to measure the next month against. Early numbers on a new site are small; the trend starts on day one.

    [ view a sample report ]
    inbox: the first search report
    Subject: Search report for [your site]: 42 clicks, 14 July to 10 Aug
    
    Hi [your name],
    
    Here are the search numbers for [your site], 14 July to 10 Aug, compared with the 28 days before.
    
    Clicks: 42 (was 31)
    Impressions: 3,910 (was 2,880)
    Average position: 18.2 (was 21.4)
    
    Almost on page one:
    - "[a search you nearly rank for]" - position 8.3, 240 impressions (/services)
    
    Queries your copy doesn't cover yet:
    - "[a search your copy misses]" - 120 impressions; "[missing word]" missing from the / title and description
    
    One move for this month: work "[missing word]" into the / title or description.
    
    Reply with questions, or tell me which one to pick up first.
    
    - Dan
    Daysprint · https://www.daysprint.dev

    The shape of the report. Yours is built from your site's real Search Console data, about a month after launch.

[ NOT INCLUDED ]

What's not included

What sits outside the price, so nothing is a surprise at the invoice:

  • E-commerce carts and checkout flows - quoted separately
  • User accounts or login areas
  • More than five pages - a sixth is fine, as a quoted addition
  • Brand identity from scratch - the site works with the brand you have

Close-but-not-quite projects get a fixed quote against the brief you already wrote - no second intake.

[ FAQ ]

The questions everyone asks

How much does a 5-page business website cost?

$1,800 USD fixed here, shipped in 7 days with a CMS you edit yourself. Agencies commonly quote $5,000–$15,000+ USD and 3–6 weeks for the same scope. The price is locked in a written quote before the deposit - and there's usually nothing ongoing, because hosting typically lands on free tiers.

Source: Website Development Cost 2026 - Digital Applied

Can a real business website be built in a week?

Yes - when the scope is fixed and one senior engineer does the whole build. Five pages, CMS, SEO setup and launch fit in 7 days because there are no hand-offs or approval queues; the schedule above shows where each day goes. What doesn't fit in a week: e-commerce, user accounts, or content that doesn't exist yet.

Which CMS do you use, and will I be locked in?

Payload CMS, open source and running inside the same Next.js codebase as your site. The editing screen lives at /admin on your own domain, the content sits in a Postgres database in your Vercel account, and there's no third-party CMS account or per-seat fee. The content schema is code in your repo, so any developer can pick it up after me. I'd swap it only if your content needs a multi-editor SaaS workflow, and that's settled at quote stage.

Can I really edit everything myself?

Yes, that's what the CMS is there for. Text, images, new posts, new testimonials: all yours to change without touching code. At handover I'll walk you through exactly how.

What counts as a page?

A distinct layout with its own URL - home, services, about, contact, and one more is the typical shape. Repeatable content like blog posts count as one template, not one page each: a blog with fifty posts is still one of your five.

What will hosting cost me?

Usually nothing - the site deploys to your own Vercel account, and a five-page business website sits comfortably inside Vercel's free tier. The CMS database and image storage sit on free tiers in the same account for a site this size. No hosting margin, no markup.

[ CONTACT ]

Start your Launch Site

Answer what you can, and you'll have a written fixed quote within one business day, written by me. Melbourne-based, working globally.

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