We harness monsters.

Software that took a team months now takes weeks — if you know how to hold the new technology. monstrous.dev builds software with LLMs: smart, quick, reliable — together with you, priced on results, never on hours.

Fixed prices · Priced on outcomes · Never hourly

“The technology that could give a small company an edge was locked behind big-company budgets and jargon. That lock is broken.”

Why monstrous.dev exists

Software that gives a small company an edge — orders that run themselves, reports that write their own first draft, customers who book and pay without phoning you — used to cost big-company money and take big-company time. No more. LLMs, the engines behind the AI you’ve heard about, let a focused builder make in weeks what took a team months.

monstrous.dev exists to hand you that edge. We build together with you — in your language, not ours — and we price on the result, not on our hours. If software isn’t the answer, we’ll tell you that too.

What we do

Start with Ideation — €100–500, fixed

A session, not a sales call. We sit with you, map where technology creates competitive advantage and where more value is hiding, and you leave with a plain-English plan — including the exact price of building each part of it.

What it costsfixed before we start€100–500
What you getplan in plain English + upfront pricesdays
If no build makes senseyou keep the plan, we part as friendshonest

€100–500.

That’s the whole cost of finding out what your edge is worth. Less than most people spend on software they don’t need.

Prototype before you commit

After Ideation, we build a small working version so you can touch the thing before the big price. Reacting to something real beats approving a document.

Builds in short bursts

We build solo, then show you what works. Every demo is a steer point: keep going, change course, or run what exists now. Your call, every time.

Prices you know before you commit

Never hourly. After Ideation you get good calculations upfront, and every build is priced against your goal and measurable results — so if it works, it was worth it; if we said it would, it does.

fixed price measurable outcomes no surprise invoices

Where we’re at our best

Greenfield: a blank page and an LLM engine. Software that reads, writes, decides and checks its own work — the kind of build where the new speed really shows. Your advantage is the point; the technology stays our problem.

See the full path

Care after launch

We run what we build — improving and refining it as your company uses it. Our own apps have run in public for years; yours gets the same treatment.

How building together works

  1. Ideate. One session, €100–500. We find the advantage and the value; you get a plain-English plan with real prices. If software isn’t the answer, you hear it here first.
  2. Prototype. A rough working version, fast — so you’re steering something you can click, not a slide you can’t.
  3. Build. Short bursts of solo building, each ending in a demo you react to. Every price was fixed upfront, against results you can measure.
  4. Care. We keep it running, improving and refining — or hand you the keys. Most clients keep us; that’s why Care exists.
You always have the wheel At every steer point the choice is yours: iterate further, change course, or take the current result and run it. You’ll never wonder what’s happening, and you’ll never be surprised at the end.

What we hold to

Speed is a feature The new rate of creativity and agility is real, and you get it — not a slideshow about it. Weeks, not months, is a promise we can keep because the tools finally allow it.
Plain language, always You should understand every sentence — on this page, in the plan, and on the invoice. Jargon is our job, not yours.
Built in public Our apps run in the open, our code is on GitHub, and what we learn goes back to the community. Judge us by what we ship, not what we claim.
Small companies deserve good software The craft big companies buy shouldn’t be out of reach for a ten-person business. That’s the reason monstrous.dev exists.

Proof, not promises

Our own apps, live in public

We don’t just build for clients — we build and run our own products on the same craft. Each .monster domain is a product idea taken all the way to a live app.

Snoozesnooze.monster · reminders that reach youlive
Dartdart.monster · darts without the chalklive
Reportingreporting.monster · first-draft reportsin build
Segmentsegment.monster · data slices, no data teamin build

Companies we’ve worked with

Hoipippeloi · Faber Reclame · IKEA

Case stories on request — being written for this page

“The gallery is the portfolio; the code is the résumé.”

Why everything we build has a public face

github.com/monstrous-dev

Open source, by default

The harnesses — the machinery that makes LLMs do real, verified work — don’t stay in a drawer. Patterns, starters and tools go back to the community, free to fork.

Browse the repositories

What we don’t do

A short list of honest no’s — so you know exactly what you’re getting, and what you’re not.

No hourly billing Prices are fixed against outcomes. If we’re slow, it costs us — not you.
No staff augmentation You can’t rent our developers. You can hire us to deliver something that works.
No legacy rescues We don’t take over abandoned codebases. Fresh builds are where we’re deadly; archaeology is not.
No enterprise theatre No six-month RFPs, no vendor portals, no 200-page contracts. Small companies only.
No technology without an outcome If you can’t name the result, we won’t build it. We’d rather keep the €100 Ideation fee than sell you the wrong thing.

Start with an Ideation session.

A few hundred euros. A few days. A plain-English plan with real prices — and an honest no if software isn’t your answer. Write to us directly: no forms, no funnels.

hello@monstrous.dev · three sentences about your company are enough — we’ll ask the rest