Website Design for Startups: Designed, Built and Live in 3–4 Weeks
Happy Pizza Studio designs and builds startup marketing websites for a fixed $12,000. Up to six pages in Next.js, live in three weeks, or four if we're doing the brand too. Dan and Luke do all of it.
What's in the $12,000
- Up to six pages in Next.js, in a repo you own
- A lightweight CMS built into the site, with your blog or changelog in Markdown files
- Responsive layouts and motion
- SEO basics, analytics, forms wired into your CRM
- A .md twin of every page and an llms.txt, for AI search
- 30 days of support after launch
Not included: long-form copy, illustration, migrations and web apps.
How the weeks run
- Week 1. Sitemap and wireframes, signed off before anything gets styled.
- Week 2. Full pages in your brand, desktop and mobile. Revisions happen here.
- Week 3. Build, the built-in CMS, analytics and forms, then live on your domain.
Doing the brand too? Add a week, so the site is designed in it rather than retrofitted.
What do you build it in?
Next.js, in a repo you own. Copy and posts live in Markdown and JSON files, so anyone comfortable editing a text file can change a page or publish a post without a third-party platform. Your engineers get a codebase they can extend.
Website design packages and pricing
- Website: $12,000, 3 weeks. Up to six pages with a built-in CMS.
- Landing page: $6,000, 1–2 weeks. One page for a launch or a waitlist. More on landing pages.
- Brand + website: $25,000, about four weeks. Essentials plus the site, instead of $27,000 separately. More on startup branding.
- Extra pages: about $1,000–1,500 each.
What a startup website actually needs
Most seed-stage sites have too many pages and not enough on the homepage.
What we'd push for, whoever builds it
- A first screen a stranger understands. One sentence and one button.
- The real product on screen. Screenshots or a short loop, not abstract gradients.
- Proof near the top. Logos, or a quote with a real name on it.
- Somewhere that changes. A blog or changelog you'll actually update.
- Fewer pages. Home, product, pricing, about, blog, contact. Six covers most companies to Series A.
This is for you if
- You've raised and the site still looks like the weekend you launched.
- You've got a brand, or are getting one from us, and need a site built in it.
- There's a launch date and the site has to be live before it.
- Your engineers keep getting pulled off the product to fix the marketing site.
It's not for you if
- You need a web app, a dashboard or a 40-page migration. We build marketing sites.
- You want a $500 template. The template marketplaces are right there.
What clients say about our brand work
“Dan and team did a phenomenal job giving Hacktron AI a modern logo. I posted on Twitter 2 weeks ago that we needed a new logo. Happy Pizza Studio delivered!”
Zayne Zhang, CEO, Hacktron
“Absolute goats. Unbelievable design work!”
Daniil Bekirov, Founder, Sparkles
Packages
Full servicesWebsite
Up to six pages in Next.js, built by the two people who designed them.
$12,000
3 weeks (4 alongside a brand project)
Landing Page
Ideal for: A launch, a waitlist or a product that needs its own pitch
$6,000
1–2 weeks
Essentials + Website
The brand and the site in one go, so the site gets built on the system instead of bolted on after.
$25,000
4 weeks
Questions
How much does a startup website cost?
$12,000 fixed for up to six pages. Extra pages are about $1,000–1,500 each. A landing page is $6,000, brand plus website $25,000.
How long does it take?
Three weeks on an existing brand, four with the brand. A landing page takes 1–2 weeks.
What do you build the site in?
Next.js, in a repo you own. Your engineers can extend it without learning a platform, and the content sits in plain files.
Do we get a CMS?
Yes, a custom one built into the Next.js site. Content lives in Markdown and JSON files in your repo, so you, or anyone comfortable editing a text file, can change copy and publish posts without a third-party platform.
Who edits the site after launch?
You do. Copy and posts are files in your repo, and we're on hand for 30 days after launch.
We already have a site. Is this a redesign or a new build?
A new site either way. Migrating the old content isn't included, so flag a big archive on the call.
Do you write the copy?
Long-form copy isn't included. We set the page structure with you in week one.
Are you a branding agency or a web design agency?
Both. We started as a startup branding studio and have shipped 20+ brands. The website offer is for founders who want both from the same two people.
Heard enough?
Let's talk15 minutes. No brief needed. You'll leave with scope, timeline and a cost on one page.