The developer you don't have to worry about.
Reliable web development capacity on flexible terms. Without the overhead of a hire.
Demand fluctuates. Employees don't.
One month the pipeline is full and the team is stretched. The next, developers are sitting on retainer for projects that haven't started. Hiring is a six-month process in the Netherlands. Employment law means a bad hire is expensive to undo.
Freelancers seem like the obvious answer. Some are excellent. Many aren't. Finding out which is which usually means burning a project. Missed deadlines, code that only the original developer can run. By the time the agency knows, the client already does too.
Hiring is expensive. And inflexible.
A medior developer in the Netherlands costs €75,000–90,000 per year once employer taxes, pension, holiday allowance, and overhead are included. That's before recruitment, equipment, and the risk that it doesn't work out.
Every month, busy or quiet
Only the hours the work needs
The salary continues
Nothing to pay
Up to two years of sick pay, or insurance against it
No sick pay to cover
About six months of recruiting
One call, then a clear quote
Expensive to undo
No contract to end
Recruitment, equipment, pension, holiday allowance
No extra costs: one invoice
Salary data from Glassdoor. Employer cost calculations from Ondernemen met Personeel. Sick pay rule from Randstad, insurance cost from Nationale‑Nederlanden.
A developer who has worked inside agencies.
The developer behind Minuar worked in agency teams in Brazil, Canada and the Netherlands from 2011, before starting Minuar.
The brief gets read. Questions come before the work starts. The output matches what was agreed.
Three ways to work together
Project-based
Defined scope, fixed price, delivered to spec.
For one-off builds with clear requirements. The quote covers everything, and the invoice matches it.
Retainer
Reserved hours per week or month.
The hours are reserved, so the agency knows what capacity it has each week or month.
Hourly
Development time as needed.
Billed at €89/hour, or in prepaid blocks at a reduced rate.
What Minuar brings
- 01
Complete builds
From the first technical question to the live site: themes, plugins, integrations and the launch itself.
- 02
Your stack
Minuar adapts to the agency's stack, and says so upfront when it is not a fit.
- 03
Hosting and servers
SSH, hosting panels and server work are part of the job, so a deploy or a slow server does not need a second supplier.
- 04
On site when useful
Remote first, and at the agency's office when that is useful and practical.
- 05
White-label
Under the agency's brand and under NDA. Client contact is direct when the agency asks for it.