For teams with more ideas than time.
Got an idea that could unlock new opportunities, but no one has the time to explore it?
Find out if it's worth building before you commit a budget. See it working in weeks, not quarters. Ship it without pulling your team off the roadmap.
Handed over as a finished piece, or built side by side with your team. Either way, the goal is the same: make something real that moves your business forward.
Every company has them.
The idea someone brought up in a meeting. The experiment that could change how things work. Usually one of three things stands in the way.
Your team is busy delivering what's already promised, and hiring takes months. The idea waits for a quiet quarter that never comes.
The idea gets explored now, and your roadmap stays on track.
Without evidence it won't get a budget. Without a budget, nobody collects the evidence.
A working prototype and real feedback, so the next investment is a decision, not a gamble.
The prototype impressed everyone. Turning it into software people rely on every day is where it stalls.
Reliable software in production, and a team that can run it.
Find out fast whether it's worth building. If it is, make it real.
Not sure where your idea stands?
Four quick questions, one minute, and you get a suggested starting point.
Reduce uncertainty
Find out what's worth building.
Turn early ideas and unanswered questions into something testable. Challenge assumptions, explore possibilities, and gather real feedback before making bigger investments.
Make it tangible
Less talking about it. More trying it out.
Build working prototypes that people can actually use, test, and react to.
Make it real
Take it beyond the demo.
Turn promising prototypes into reliable, maintainable software.
Build lasting momentum
Build momentum that lasts.
Work alongside your engineers and product people. Unblock technical challenges, improve tooling, share knowledge, and establish ways of working that keep delivering.
Have a focused idea but no dedicated team available?
Hand over a defined challenge and get back a working prototype or first version, without taking anyone off the roadmap. You see progress in real software, not in slide decks.
Already have talented people, but need extra capacity, a fresh perspective, or someone who can connect product and engineering?
Get an extra builder inside your team, in your tools and your codebase. No separate universe of recommendations, just more momentum toward the same goal, and a team that's stronger afterwards.
Small scope. Real outcomes. Clean handovers.
Let's talk about your ideaMost ideas stall in the hand-offs between strategy, design, an agency and your team. Here the person weighing what's worth building is the one building it. Fewer meetings, faster answers.
Modern tooling, AI included, has shrunk a working prototype from a quarter's project to a few weeks. The cost of not trying hasn't shrunk at all.
No lock-in and no endless retainer. You keep the code, the knowledge and the momentum, and your team can carry on without outside help.
Because the best way to keep learning how to build products is to keep building them.
Nerdwerk is also my playground for independent software, developer tools, experiments, and occasionally ideas that are just too interesting not to try.
Some projects become products. Others become lessons. Every one of them sharpens the judgment your project gets.
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Early access
One link for all your links.
Turns a pile of links into one clean, shareable page. No logins, no ads, and it works straight from ChatGPT and Claude.
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European digital sovereignty, minus the announcements.
A weekly read on what governments and companies actually buy, mandate, build or enforce. Three to five stories an issue, each with what I make of it.
I share the journey, the experiments, and what I learn along the way.
A playful side project made my own company website look boring. So I changed the look, dropped a word I never liked, and wrote down what Nerdwerk is actually for.
Why Nerdwerk exists — good products, the teams that ship them, and a stack you actually own.
Europe doesn't lack alternatives to American developer tools — it lacks ones developers love. That's a product problem, and product problems are solvable.
I've spent my career moving between engineering, leading teams, and shaping products.
I've written the code, built and led the teams, and made decisions about what was worth building in the first place.
That combination matters. Because great software isn't only about engineering. It's about understanding the problem, finding the right people, making good decisions, and keeping everyone moving in the same direction.
So your idea doesn't get lost between those worlds.
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An experiment nobody has time for. A product you've wanted to explore for months. A prototype that needs to cross the finish line. Bring it to a free 30-minute call and leave with an honest read on whether it's worth building, and what the first step would be.
