We replace the apps and spreadsheets your team copies between.
Custom web applications for small and mid-size businesses. Built in Northern Nevada. You get a real application with logins, a database and dashboards — the thing your team opens every morning — instead of another folder of files that only one person understands.
What we build
Three kinds of work. Most projects are the first one.
A web application
The core of it. Users log in, each sees only what they should see, data goes into a real database, and someone gets a dashboard that answers the question they keep asking. Booking systems, client portals, internal tools, job tracking, reporting — anything that is currently a spreadsheet, a shared inbox, or a process that lives in one person’s head.
The marketing site that goes with it
If the application needs a front door — a site that explains the thing and gets people to sign up — we build that too, on the same stack, in the same project. One team, one bill, one thing to maintain.
Keeping it running afterwards
Software is not finished when it launches. Hosting, monitoring, security updates and the small changes you will want in month three are a monthly retainer, not an emergency. The tiers are on the pricing page.
How a project goes
- A call. Half an hour. You describe the problem. We ask what it costs you today and what would have to be true for the project to be worth it. No slides.
- A written scope. We send back what we understood, in plain language, with a price and a date. If we cannot price it honestly yet — because it is large, or vague, or it has to talk to a system neither of us has seen — we say so and propose a paid discovery sprint instead of guessing. A guess that is wrong costs you more than the sprint.
- Build. Work starts when the deposit arrives. You see it running on a staging URL you can open on your phone, and it updates as we go. You are not waiting until the end to find out what we built.
- Launch, then a month of paying attention. We put it live, watch it, and fix what real use turns up. Then it either moves onto a maintenance retainer or it is yours to run.
What you get on every project
The same stack every time, so nothing is experimental on your job.
- A login system that holds up. Every table in the database has row-level security, so a user cannot read another user’s data even if someone goes looking. This is a default, not an extra.
- Automated tests, run on every change. Unit tests and browser tests run before anything merges. It is how we find our mistakes before you do.
- Error tracking and uptime monitoring from day one. If the application throws an error at 2am, we know. You do not have to be the one who reports it.
- The code, in a private repository, handed to you on acceptance if that is in your contract. You are not renting your own business logic.
- Plain-language documentation — how it is put together, what decisions were made and why, and how to run it. So the next person, including a different developer, can pick it up.
What we say yes to
Most things. But we will not price something we do not understand yet, and we will tell you when someone else is the better call.
Yes, and here is the price.
Web applications with logins, data, dashboards, forms and reporting. Marketing sites. Connecting to a service that has proper documentation — a payment provider, a calendar, an email platform. We have built this shape before and we can quote it from a conversation.
Yes, after a short paid discovery.
Large or still-vague projects. Moving data out of an old system. Anything that has to talk to more than three other systems, or to one nobody has documented. We sell a one-to-two-week discovery sprint that ends in written requirements, an architecture outline and a fixed quote — and the cost comes off the project if you go ahead. You end up with a real number instead of a hopeful one.
No, and here is who to call instead.
Apps that have to be in the Apple or Google store. Systems that store medical records or card numbers directly. A fixed price on a scope nobody has defined. We would rather point you at the right firm than take the job and learn on your money.
On-site work — training your team on an application we delivered, for example — is not on that list. We consider it case by case.
Where we are
We are in Northern Nevada. That means the same time zone as you, a call answered by the person doing the work, and a coffee in person when a project needs one.
Our service area is Northern Nevada, and we take clients everywhere else too — the work is remote either way. Being local just means nobody is explaining the Reno market to us from three time zones away.
Where we stand. DNS Computing Solutions has been in business in Northern Nevada since 2013. We build and run custom web applications for clients, and we keep our tools current. We do not publish case studies without a client’s permission, so there is no wall of logos here. Ask on a call and we will walk you through relevant past work.
Tell us what you are trying to build.
Describe the problem in a few sentences. We will reply within one business day with either a straight answer, a question, or a time to talk.