Hitchpost

Hitch your systems to someone who's run them.

We make web products fast, dependable, and cheaper to run. Performance, reliability, cloud cost, and the senior engineering to keep it that way. You work with the person doing the work.

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What we do

We cover the whole stack,
from fast pages to reliable platforms

Practical, durable engineering across the whole stack. Favoring measurements over guesses.

Build & Perform

Build it right, and make it fast, findable, and usable.

  • Web Performance
  • SEO
  • Web Design & Accessibility
  • Quality Engineering
  • Full-Stack Development

Run & Operate

Keep it running, keep an eye on it, and keep it secure.

  • Reliability & SRE
  • Observability & Monitoring
  • IT & Networking
  • Security & Deliverability

Scale & Optimize

Grow without surprises in load or cost.

  • Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Cost Optimization
  • Data & Databases

Also offered

Lead & Advise

Senior direction and assessment for how you build.

Fractional Tech Lead · AI & Spec-Driven Development · Engineering Maturity Assessment · Codebase Health Review · Developer Experience & CI/CD

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Media & Creative

Production and design beyond the codebase.

Video & Streaming · Photography · Visual & Brand Design

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Full breakdown of services

For small businesses & nonprofits

Or you might just need a good website

Not every problem is a platform problem. If you need a site that loads fast, works on a phone, and shows up on Google, that's a shorter conversation and a fixed price.

From $299

Priced by what the site needs to do, not by how many pages it has. You get the number in writing before anything starts, so tell us what you need and what you have to spend.

Hosting is free at that size. You pay for a domain, about $15 a year, and there's no monthly bill from us at all.

What's included All pricing

Running a nonprofit? There's a grant angle worth knowing about →

  • Design included Layout, type, and color chosen for your business, not a theme with your logo dropped in it.
  • Accessibility included Built in as we go, which is the only time it's cheap.
  • SEO groundwork included The technical work search engines and AI assistants actually read. No retainer required.
  • Yours entirely Domain, files, and accounts in your name from day one.

Why Hitchpost

Outcomes we can put numbers on.

You talk to the person who did the work. Here is what that work did.

  • $1.9Mcloud spend, removed
  • 93%incident-response compliance, up from 48%
  • 99.95%uptime, held 18 months
  • 85%of traffic moved to the edge

Engagements led by Jesse Heady in senior and leadership roles at the companies behind them.

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Who you're working with

Two decades making the web fast and dependable

Hitchpost is a principal-led practice. We do the unglamorous engineering that decides whether a product feels fast and stays up.

You get a senior pair of hands. Someone who has owned production systems, sweated Core Web Vitals, run incidents at 3 a.m., and built infrastructure that holds.

You work with that person directly, from the first conversation through to whoever answers when something breaks. That means fewer surprises. Problems caught before your customers feel them. Systems that cost less to run. Code the next engineer can actually pick up.

Who you'll work with

  • Build & Perform Full-stack development, performance, SEO, and accessible design: products that are fast, findable, and usable.
  • Run & Operate Reliability, monitoring, and security that hold up under real traffic.
  • Scale & Optimize Cloud, cost, and data that grow without surprises.
  • Lead & Advise Fractional leadership, AI-assisted development, maturity assessments, and developer experience.
  • Media & Creative Video and live-streaming production, photography, and visual and brand design.
  • Measure first Real numbers, from the lab and the field, drive every engagement.

How it works

You'll know the price before the work starts

Nothing to sit through before the work starts, and no hourly meter running while we figure out what you meant.

  1. 1

    Tell us what's wrong

    A call or an email. Something is slow, fragile, expensive, or missing. You don't need a requirements document, and you don't need to know the cause.

  2. 2

    We scope it and quote it

    A fixed price or a not-to-exceed cap, in writing, before anything begins. If the work grows, you hear about it before it does, not on the invoice.

  3. 3

    We do it, and hand it over

    Documented as we go, so your team can run and extend it. Leaving your systems easier to operate than we found them is the point.

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Let's talk about your systems

Tell us what's slow, fragile, or keeping you up at night. We read every message and reply personally.

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