Software development, by subscription
Every dev shop starts great.
Then the updates get less frequent. Then they stop. You're four months in, you've paid, and you have nothing to show for it.
PauseMe bills by the month and pauses the day you say so — unused days preserved for twelve months. The month it goes quiet is the month you stop paying.
Unlimited requests · One task at a time · 2–3 business days · You own the code
Month one is never the problem
You've probably had the good version of this. Daily updates. A responsive lead. A first milestone that looked fine.
Here is how it usually goes after that, in the words of people who paid for it:
“The project started out well, I would get daily updates and progress reports of all the work they did. But then within a couple months the daily updates started becoming less frequent and it was almost as if they forgot about my app or it wasn't important to them once they got my money.”
“Initially, the project started well — the team was competent, and the first phase of the app was solid. However, everything went downhill… Despite the significant investment of time and money, I was left with nothing to show for it.”
Eight to ten weeks became seventeen months in one case, and $63,500. Six months became two years in another. In a third, the buyer paid $40,000, got nothing usable, and paid a second agency $14,000 to finish it.
None of those vendors were bad in month one. That is the problem. Month one tells you nothing, and by month four the money is already gone.
So the question isn't whether we're good. Every shop you've hired was good in month one. The question is what happens when we're not — and that has to be answered by a structure you control, not a promise we make.
Your money never gets ahead of the work
No deposit. No upfront milestone. No annual contract.
You're billed monthly, in advance of a month — not in advance of a project. There is no six-figure sum sitting with us against work that hasn't happened.
Pause whenever you want.Billing stops the same day. Your unused days are preserved and waiting when you come back. A quiet month costs you nothing, and you don't have to explain why or ask anyone's permission.
This is the part that would have saved every buyer quoted above. Not better intentions — a switch they could reach.
What we've built
We're a small AI-first shop. Rather than describe that, here are three products we designed, built, and run — live, and you can click every one.
HypnoDoctor
hypnodoctor.com
Consumer subscription product. Next.js, Postgres, Stripe subscriptions, AI generation pipeline, therapist marketplace, affiliate system.
PuppyKindergarten
puppykindergarten.com
Consumer subscription with a two-sided marketplace. Next.js, Postgres, Stripe, quiz-driven personalization, provider booking, affiliate program.
Onomaco
onomaco.com
Platform product with machine-verified launch gating, checkout, and automated follow-up.
These are ours, not client work, and we'd rather say that than dress them up. Client case studies go here as they're completed and the client agrees to be named.
What you own
All of it. Code, designs, infrastructure config, work product — yours from the moment it's written, not on final payment.
You get repository access throughout, not a handover at the end. Export whenever you want. If you leave, nothing of yours leaves with us.
Pricing
Cancel anytime. Pause anytime. 7-day money-back guarantee.
Starter
$4,995/mo
$3,995/mo billed annually
1 concurrent task
3–5 business days turnaround
- ✓Single tech stack
- ✓Async communication
- ✓Unlimited requests
- ✓Pause anytime
Growth
$7,495/mo
$6,495/mo billed annually
1 concurrent task
2–3 business days turnaround
- ✓Full stack
- ✓Dedicated PM
- ✓Quarterly architecture review
- ✓Unlimited requests
- ✓Pause anytime
Scale
$11,995/mo
$9,995/mo billed annually
2 concurrent tasks
1–2 business days turnaround
- ✓Full stack + architecture
- ✓Dedicated PM + bi-weekly syncs
- ✓Monthly architecture review
- ✓Unlimited requests
- ✓Pause anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
What counts as a request?+
Any well-scoped development task: a feature, a bug fix, an API endpoint, a UI component, a migration, a refactor.
How does pausing work?+
Billing stops the day you pause. Unused days are preserved and waiting when you return. No notice period, no call.
Who owns the code?+
You do — code, designs, IP, infrastructure config, from the moment it's written. You have repo access throughout, not at the end.
You've already paid for software that never arrived.
The difference here isn't that we promise not to do that. It's that you can stop paying the day we go quiet.