FermainStudio
Software on Google Cloud,
and someone who stays with it.
Fermain hosts software, maintains it, and iterates on it.
Featured projects
Yagr
ProductProperty search for South Africa, with verified listings, price history and deeds records.
SvelteKit · Go · Google Cloud
Floorplan
ProductHouse design in the browser, brick by brick, priced and checked against SANS 10400 as you draw.
SvelteKit · Three.js · Open source
Frame
ProductA content editor that lives inside a SvelteKit site and saves to its git repository.
SvelteKit · Cloud Run · Johannesburg
Piekfyn
Online shopA shop for handmade leather bags and accessories.
Medusa · Next.js
Snare Aware
Non-profitThe site of a volunteer conservation group, written and published by its own team.
SvelteKit · Edited in Frame
Care Cottage
HospitalityThe site of a holiday cottage, with direct booking.
SvelteKit · Cloud Storage · Edited in Frame
The work
01
Host
Your software on Google Cloud, set up for what it needs and no more than that.
- Set up as code, so the whole arrangement can be read and rebuilt.
- In Johannesburg when the data has to stay in South Africa.
- In your own Google Cloud account or ours, whichever suits the size of the job.
- Infrastructure at Google’s price, with nothing added.
Cloud Run · Cloud Storage · Johannesburg
02
Maintain
Care sized to the system. A small shop and a regulated platform do not need the same thing.
- Security updates and dependency upgrades.
- Automated backups.
- Logging and alerts, up to the standard a bank is held to.
Updates · Backups · Monitoring
03
Iterate
Regular work on what you already run, and new systems when you need one.
- Every change is reviewed, and goes live when it is merged.
- Web applications in SvelteKit, services in Go.
- Older systems moved forward in steps, with the old one running until the new one is ready.
- Content your own team can edit, through Frame.
SvelteKit · Go · Deploy on merge
Rate
R2 000an hour
One rate for new development, changes and operations. A typical retainer is ten hours a month.