Web development · San Diego
Orcatec is a web development company in San Diego that builds the parts of a website that do real work: logins, portals, data, integrations and the code behind them. We run our own web platform in production, so speed, security and uptime are part of every project.
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We focus on development, not templates. If your site needs accounts, data, integrations or custom logic, that is where we help.
Fast, accessible interfaces in React and Next.js that work on every screen size and match your design system.
APIs, databases, authentication, background jobs and admin panels that keep your site’s data correct and secure.
One team owns the whole stack, from the database to the browser, so features ship without handoffs between vendors.
Secure areas where customers see orders, invoices, documents or service history, and partners submit requests.
Headless CMS setups with custom logic: product catalogs, pricing rules, multi-location content and marketing pages your team can edit.
Core Web Vitals, caching, CDN setup, dependency updates and security reviews for existing sites that are slow or fragile.
Most of our web work falls into a few patterns. If yours does not, tell us anyway; the underlying skills are the same.
Your marketing site stays as it is, and we add a secure area where customers see their account, documents and history from your back-office systems.
An aging site that is slow, hard to edit and risky to update is rebuilt on Next.js with a headless CMS, page by page or all at once.
Forms that create records in your CRM, live inventory or pricing from your ERP, and online payments that land in your accounting software.
Slow pages, failed deployments and plugin conflicts are found, fixed and covered by monitoring so they do not come back.
We review your current site, hosting, data sources and integrations, and agree on goals and scope.
We choose the stack, plan the data model and pages, and prepare designs or work from yours.
Two-week sprints with a staging site you can review at any time.
Automated tests, performance checks, redirects and SEO safeguards, then a planned release with a rollback option.
Monitoring, updates and new features on a monthly plan.
Tell us what your site or portal needs to do. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.
The Orcatec web app handles estimates, scheduling, invoicing and payments for home services businesses. We build and maintain it ourselves, every week.
We designed, built and still run Orcatec, a field service management platform used by home services companies to sell, schedule, dispatch, invoice and get paid, in the office and in the field.
Read the case study →Cost depends on the number of page types, integrations and custom features. Typical starting points:
from $4,000
80+ hours · 1–3 weeks
A prototype of the key page or feature to validate the approach.
from $16,000
320+ hours · 1–2 months
A first version of the portal or platform with the core flows.
from $48,000
960+ hours · 3–6 months
A complete platform with integrations, content management and performance work.
from $112,000
2,240+ hours · 6+ months
Large multi-role platforms with complex integrations and high traffic.
Hourly rate: $50–70 per hour. Package prices start at the minimum hours × $50. You get a fixed quote after a free discovery call.
Many San Diego web development companies focus on design and marketing sites. We are a software team, so we are most useful when your website has to connect to real systems: a CRM, an ERP, a booking engine or a payment provider.
If you need a full web application rather than a website with portal features, see our custom software development page. Either way, you get one accountable team in your time zone, and you own the code and hosting accounts.
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Web applications, SaaS products, internal tools and integrations built around how your business actually works.
Learn more →Product design for apps and web software: research, user flows, clickable prototypes and design systems developers can build.
Learn more →Multi-tenant SaaS products with subscriptions, roles, integrations and mobile apps, built by a team that runs its own SaaS.
Learn more →CI/CD, cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP or Azure, monitoring, cost control and automated mobile app releases.
Learn more →Tell us what you want to build. We’ll reply within one business day with questions and next steps.