Software development in Medway and Kent
We are based in Medway and most of our clients are within an hour of it. Websites, apps, bespoke systems and automation, on a fixed quote agreed before anything starts, with the code yours at the end.
Below: the Kent projects we have actually delivered, what we cover, and an honest answer on where we work and where we don’t.
Work we have delivered in Kent
Three named projects for Kent clients, each with a write-up of what was needed and what we built. Not a logo wall.
Where we actually work
We are a service-area business, not a shop you walk into. In practice that means we meet clients at their premises or on a call, and the work itself happens wherever it happens.
Across Medway - Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Strood and Rainham - we will come to you without thinking about it. Across the rest of Kent and the South East, we will come to you for anything worth a meeting. Beyond that, we work with clients anywhere in the UK remotely, which is how most software gets built now and has never been the limiting factor on a project.
What we will not do is pretend to a local presence we do not have. If you want someone who can be at your office in twenty minutes and you are in Cornwall, we are the wrong choice and we will say so.
Around the county
The same studio and the same fixed prices, written up for what people actually come looking for.
Web Design in Kent
From £0 build fee
We are a small software studio in Medway, and most of the businesses we work with are within an hour of it. We design and build the site, write the code ourselves, and hand you a fixed price before anything starts.
Website Development in Kent
From £500
There is a point where a website stops being pages and starts being software: customers log in, book, pay, or manage their own data. That is the work this page is about.
Medway
From £0 build fee
Northbytes is a small web design and software studio based in Medway. We build websites for small businesses in Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Strood and Rainham. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
Chatham
From £0 build fee
Northbytes is a small web design and software studio whose registered office is in Chatham, Kent. We build websites for small businesses in Chatham, Walderslade, Lordswood and Luton, and across the rest of Medway. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
Rochester
From £0 build fee
We build websites for Rochester, Kent businesses from a Medway studio a few minutes from the High Street: independents and restaurants on the High Street, and firms on Medway City Estate. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
Gillingham
From £0 build fee
We build websites for Gillingham, Kent trades and local businesses from a Medway studio next door: electricians, plumbers and builders, and the clinics, clubs and shops in Hempstead, Wigmore, Twydall and Brompton. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
Strood
From £0 build fee
We build websites for Strood, Frindsbury, Wainscott, Higham and Cuxton businesses from a Medway studio across the bridge, and a good share of those businesses sell to other businesses rather than to the public. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month. A site with a catalogue, trade accounts or quote requests starts from £500.
Rainham
From £0 build fee
We build websites for Rainham, Kent businesses from a Medway studio a short drive away, covering Parkwood, Wigmore, Hempstead and Lower Rainham, and many of those businesses are one person working from home or from a van. A simple site has no build fee if you host with us for the first year at £45 a month, and is usually live two to four weeks after the content is settled.
Canterbury
From £0 build fee
We are based in Medway, which puts Canterbury about forty minutes down the A2. Close enough to meet properly, far enough that we will be straight with you: we do not have a Canterbury office and we are not going to invent one.
App Development in Kent
From £3,000
We build mobile apps for iOS and Android and ship them to both stores. Fixed quote before work starts, from £3,000, and the source code is yours at twelve months.
What Kent businesses ask us for
In roughly the order they ask. Every one is a fixed quote agreed before we start.
Website Development
£0 build fee on simple sites
Website design and development for small businesses across the UK that would rather deal with two named people than an account manager.
App Development
Web apps from £1,500 · mobile apps from £3,000
A mobile app development company should be able to tell you three things before you spend anything: whether you need an app at all, what yours would cost, and who owns it afterwards.
Custom Software
From £5,000
Bespoke software development, which most people also call custom software development, has a reputation in the UK for six-figure quotes and year-long timelines.
Web App Development
From £1,500
A web app is software that runs in a browser at your own address: customers or staff log in, do real work, and nothing has to be installed.
AI Automation
Pilots from £1,500
Most AI automation agencies sell you a demo.
Hosting & Maintenance
From £45 a month
Website maintenance and hosting in one flat monthly figure: £45 a month, or £90 if your site runs a database.
Does it matter that we are local?
Honestly, less than people expect for the building, and more than people expect for everything around it. The code does not care where it was written. What being nearby changes is the first conversation, the awkward one in month three, and the day something breaks.
It also changes who you are dealing with. You get the two people who will actually do the work, not an account manager relaying to a team you never meet. For a small business spending real money on software, that is usually the thing that mattered in hindsight.
If you would rather see numbers before a conversation, the website cost guide and the app cost guide both carry an estimator you can run yourself in half a minute.
Tell us what you want built.
Tell us what you're building. We'll scope it out and send back a clear plan with honest timelines and pricing - no commitment.
- Fixed quote before any work starts
- The code is yours
- No lock-in - we hand everything over cleanly
- Talk to the developer, not an account manager
Or reach us directly at hello@northbytes.org