nogsoftware

For founders who built their app with AI

The AI built it in a weekend.
Nobody warned you about month three.

You built your app with Claude, Cursor or Replit. It works. People are paying for it. Now you spend half your day fixing bugs you don't understand. We take the code off your hands and keep it running.

Building software in South Africa since 2020|If we can't fix it, you don't pay

Watch this first

Why your AI-built app keeps breaking

Ninety seconds, no jargon. What goes wrong once real people start using an app the AI wrote, and what we do about it.

  • Why every fix breaks something else
  • What those four hours a day are really costing you
  • What happens when we take the code over

Sound familiar?

You've become the maintenance guy.

The AI got you to a working app faster than any developer could have. Then real people started using it, and now you're the only one who can fix anything.

Every founder who builds this way hits the same wall. You end up doing a job you never signed up for, at eleven at night, on your own.

✗ TypeError: cannot read properties of undefined
  at checkout.tsx:118
“You’re absolutely right! Let me fix that.”
✗ TypeError: cannot read properties of undefined
  at checkout.tsx:118
It is 23:47. This is attempt eleven.

You paste the error in. Again.

The AI says you're absolutely right, changes something, and the same error comes back. You've done this eleven times today.

Every new feature breaks an old one

You add one thing and two things stop working. You only find out when a customer tells you.

Nobody's selling

Leads sit in your inbox going cold while you're stuck in the code. You didn't start a business to do this.

You're scared to touch it

It works right now and you don't know why. So you leave it alone and hope, which is not a plan.

The part nobody mentions

Software rots when nobody's looking after it.

We're not trying to scare you. These are just the four things that actually go wrong, and they're all on a clock whether you look at them or not.

Security

Nobody is patching it

AI-written code pins whatever package version it saw in training. Those versions get public vulnerabilities, and the exploit is published before you hear about it. An app nobody updates gets less safe every month it runs.

Privacy

You're holding customer data you can't protect

If your app stores names, numbers or payment details, POPIA already applies to you. You carry that liability yourself, and the first you'll hear about a problem is usually the complaint.

Maintenance

The platforms don't wait for you

Apple and Google change SDK and privacy requirements on their own schedule. Miss one and your app stops being downloadable. Certificates lapse, APIs get deprecated, and none of it announces itself in your inbox.

Growth

Your ideas are stuck behind the bug queue

The feature that would actually grow the business sits behind whatever broke this week. And every hour in the code is an hour not spent selling, which is the only thing that pays for any of it.

All four are somebody's job. Right now that somebody is you, at eleven at night, on your own. It doesn't have to be.

Hand it over

What we do

We take over apps built with AI, fix them, and run them for you.

That's the whole business. We've been building and running software since 2020, and this is the only thing we do now. You go back to selling.

01

We take the code as it is

Your Claude, Cursor, Replit or v0 project, exactly as you built it. No rewrite. No six-week rebuild quote.

02

We fix it properly

We find what's actually broken, fix the root of it, and put tests around it so it stays fixed.

03

We keep it running

Updates, bugs, security, hosting, uptime. All of it, every month. You don't open the code again.

Instead ofAn agency quotes you a rebuild from scratch
What we doWe keep what you already built and fix it
Instead ofA freelancer fixes one bug, then stops replying
What we doWe're on retainer and we answer
Instead ofYou keep asking the AI and hoping
What we doActual developers who read the whole codebase

If we can't fix your app, you don't pay.

We tell you straight after the first look whether it's worth saving. Twenty minutes, no charge, no sales pitch.

Book a call

Free when you sign up

We'll clean up your website while we're at it.

Every new client gets an enhancement pack. We redesign the front of your site, give you 3 directions to pick from, and have it back to you in 2 working days. It costs nothing extra.

3 design directionsBack in 2 working daysNo extra cost

Graphic design is in house too, so your site, your app and your ads end up looking like one company made them.

Before
After

Clients

People who stopped worrying about their software and started making money.

We were paying more every month in Shopify and app subscriptions than some of our lines were making. They built the shop properly on our own hosting instead, and the monthly bill is now a fraction of what it was. Same features, no per-app fees.

Owner

Homeware retailer, Western Cape

1995

The year we started. We're still here, and so is everything we've shipped.

Flag of South Africa

Proudly South African

Local team, local hours. You talk to the people doing the work, not an account manager.

Some of what we've built

Before you ask

The questions everyone asks on the first call

What does it cost?

The first call and the look at your code cost nothing. After that it depends on what we find, because taking over a tidy two-week-old project and taking over a year of patches are not the same job. You get one number for fixing it and one monthly number for running it, before you commit to anything.

Do you have to rebuild it from scratch?

No, and that's the point. We work on the code you already have. A rebuild throws away the thing that's already earning and puts you back six weeks, so we only ever raise it if the alternative genuinely doesn't work.

The code is a mess. Is that a problem?

It's the normal case. Every project we take over was built fast by someone learning as they went, which is how it got to market at all. We're not going to lecture you about it.

Who owns the code?

You do, start to finish. It stays in your repository under your account, we work in it, and you keep every commit. We're not building a dependency on us into your own product.

Will you sign an NDA?

Yes, before you send us anything, if you want one. Ask on the call and we'll have it to you the same day.

What if I want to leave?

You give us a month's notice and you go, with the code, the accounts and a handover document. No exit fee and nothing held back. If we're only keeping you because leaving is painful, we've built the wrong business.

What if my app can't be saved?

We tell you on the first call, for free, and you don't pay us. That's the deal, and we'd rather say it early than take money for a job that won't work.

How is this different from hiring a developer?

A developer is one person with holidays, other clients and a notice period, and when they leave the knowledge leaves with them. We take on the whole thing as a service, so the app is still someone's job next month.

What do you work with?

Whatever your AI wrote. In practice that's mostly React, Next.js, Node, Python, Flutter, Supabase, Firebase and Postgres, on Vercel, Railway or Replit. If it's something unusual, ask us on the call.

Anything else, just ask us on the call.

Book a call

Send us the app you're scared to touch.

Twenty minutes on a call. We look at what you've got and tell you straight what it needs. No jargon and no sales pitch.

If we can't fix it, you don't pay.

We do this as well

Some ideas need to exist in your hand.

Product design, 3D printing and manufacturing are ours too. Same people, same way of working. You bring the idea, we draw it, print it and get it made.

Useful if the thing you are building is not only software. Plenty of businesses need a part, a housing, a jig or a prototype before the app around it makes any sense.

Send it to usor book a call and talk it through.
01 Your idea
02 We design it
03 We print it
04 You hold it