We design it
Clear, accessible interfaces that people can actually use, designed alongside the way the system works, not painted on afterwards.
Software developers in Cambridgeshire
We build the clever bit behind the website. Then we stick around.
Cambridge Nerds build SaaS products, web applications, online shops and websites that do real work, and then keep them running, improving and growing alongside the people who use them.
More than a designer
A good-looking site is the start, not the job.
We engineer it
Databases, APIs, logins, payments, integrations and the admin tools your team will live in. The parts a template can't do.
We look after it
Fixes, updates and the next good idea. We'd rather be your developers for ten years than for ten weeks.
What we build
Software that earns its keep.
saas/
SaaS products
From idea to paying customers: platforms with accounts, subscriptions, roles and the dashboards to run them.
web-apps/
Web applications & portals
Customer portals, booking and quoting systems, internal tools. The software that replaces the spreadsheet everyone's afraid of.
shop/
E-commerce
Online shops and checkouts built around how you actually sell, connected to your payments, stock and accounts.
websites/
Websites & content management
Fast, search-friendly websites on a CMS you can run yourself, including multi-language sites for businesses working across borders.
apis/
APIs & integrations
Connecting your systems to each other and to the services you rely on: payment providers, CRMs, accounting and live data feeds.
support/
Support & ongoing development
Fixes, updates and new features from the people who wrote the code. Most of our work is here, and we like it that way.
No black boxes
We know how every line works.
A lot of software is stitched together from templates, plugins and, these days, code that nobody actually wrote. It's fine until something breaks.
Whatever tools we use, we understand every line we hand over. So when something goes wrong (and somebody, somewhere, always clicks the wrong button) we can find it, explain it and fix it fast, without guesswork.
Working together
Long-term partners, not a one-off build.
Launch day is the start. Every project is a collaboration: we work with you, not just for you, and most of what we do happens in the years after go-live.
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Discover
We get under the skin of the problem together: who uses it, what it has to do, and what "done" looks like.
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Prototype
Clickable designs and an early working version, so decisions are made with something real in front of you.
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Build
Short cycles you can see and try as we go, with the plan adjusted as we learn what matters most.
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Look after & grow
The long bit, and the best bit: support, improvements and new ideas, from a team that knows your system inside out.
Toolkit
Proven, well-supported technology.
We pick tools that will still be supported in ten years, not this week's favourite.
- .NET & C#
- ASP.NET Core
- React
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- SQL Server
- REST APIs
- IIS & Windows Server
- HTML, CSS & Sass
- Accessibility (WCAG)
Start a project
Got an idea, a problem, or a spreadsheet that's out of control?
Tell us about it. We'll reply with honest thoughts on how we'd approach it, and what it might involve.
Based in
Cambridgeshire, UK. Working with clients everywhere.