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I rebuild websites for US contractors, one at a time, by hand.

My name is Jachym Jahoda. I do the work myself, from the Czech Republic, on US hours. There is no sales team here and nobody is going to call you, which is why you are reading a page instead of sitting through a pitch.

You should assume this is a scam. Here is how to check.

Somebody you have never heard of messaged you through your own contact form, said something was wrong with your website, and offered to fix it. There is a well documented scam that runs that exact script. Contractor marketing companies publish warnings about it. The people running it invent problems that were never there, send from free email addresses, and push you to decide fast.

I contacted you first, and I am writing from a Gmail address. Two of the warning signs point straight at me. So do not take my word for any of it. Check instead.

What a website is actually for

Word of mouth brings you the work. It nearly always has, and nothing on this page is going to change that.

But somebody hears your name on a job site, types it into their phone that evening, and decides in a few seconds whether you look like a real company or not. That is the moment your site is either doing its job or quietly costing you one.

That is what I build for. Not traffic, not rankings, not leads. A site that holds onto the person word of mouth already sent you.

I am not going to tell you a website will make your phone ring. I do not know that, and neither does anybody who tells you otherwise.

The price, in writing

$499to build the site, one time
  • $150 to start. That buys a working demo of your rebuilt site and a written plan for it. Real work, delivered to you, not a holding fee.
  • $349 once you have seen the finished site and said go ahead. It is never invoiced earlier than that.
  • Live on your own domain within two business days of that payment.
  • Your old site stays up and untouched until that exact moment.
$149a month after it launches
  • Hosting, and any change you want: new hours, new prices, new photos, a page added or taken down.
  • A monthly check that everything still works, and a plain note telling you what I found.
  • No contract, no minimum term. Cancel by replying to any email from me and I confirm it the same day.

$499 is low because it is a founding price while I build up my first client list, and it goes to $749 after the fifth one. That is the entire reason, and it is the only thing about the price that changes. The monthly is one number rather than a ladder of tiers, it is not a trial, and it never goes up on you once you are on it. I am a sole trader in the Czech Republic, so this sale sits outside EU VAT and the price you see is the price you pay.

What goes wrong with website companies, and what I put in writing instead

Every quote below is from a public complaint filed against a company that sells to contractors. I did not write any of them.

I've been trying to cancel for 3 months and you can't cancel online... they keep charging me. Better Business Bureau complaint, Thryv

You cancel by replying to any email from me, and I confirm it the same day. There is no number to call and nobody will try to talk you out of it.

They secretly lock you in a 1 year contract with NO option for a buy out. Better Business Bureau complaint, Thryv

There is no term at all. Not twelve months, not three, not one. It is written into my terms that you end it whenever you want.

They charged me another month ($428) after I canceled the account and i was not under a contract. Better Business Bureau complaint, Townsquare Interactive

When you cancel I hand back your files and point your domain wherever you tell me, promptly, and nothing is held back waiting on a further payment.

I received zero leads, not a single one. No return, no accountability, and no meaningful reporting. Better Business Bureau complaint, from a customer paying $700 a month to Townsquare Interactive

I will not promise you leads, so I cannot fail you on that promise. What you get every month is a short note about what I actually checked and what I actually fixed.

Their website was never indexed in [Google] or Bing, and... no analytics was installed. Better Business Bureau complaint, Hibu

Your site is submitted to Google and Bing when it launches and I confirm they can see it. That is setup work, done once, and I will not dress it up as a monthly service.

The part that matters most is not on that list. Your content, your site and your domain belong to you from the first day and stay yours the whole time, whatever happens between us. That is section 4 of my terms.

Two sites I built, so you can judge the work yourself

Both are demo builds for companies that do not exist. The phone numbers are fake and the forms go nowhere, and both pages say so at the top. I would rather show you honestly labelled work than borrow somebody else's screenshots or invent a client list.

What the $149 a month actually is

Once a month I run a real check against your live site and send you a short note. This is what one looks like.

Monthly checkexample
Site reachable, every day this monthok
Loads correctly on a phoneok
Contact form submits and reaches youok
Security certificate validok
Broken links or images1 found
Homepage load time1.4s

The gallery link on your Services page pointed somewhere that no longer exists. Fixed it Tuesday. Nothing else needed doing this month.

What is included

  • Hosting, and your domain pointed correctly
  • Any change you ask for, by email
  • A check that the site is up, loads on a phone, and loads fast
  • A check that the contact form actually sends
  • Broken links, broken images, expiring certificate
  • A plain note once a month, with no jargon and no invented numbers

What is not included, and why

  • Rankings reports. That data belongs to Google, not to me, and I am not going to estimate it for you.
  • Backlinks. Everything sold at this price breaks Google's own written rules. The version that does not costs thousands a month.
  • An SEO package. For getting found locally, your Google Business Profile and your reviews matter more than your website does. Neither of those is a website job, and I am not billing you to pretend otherwise.
  • Ads. I do not run them and I do not take a cut of anybody's ad budget.

How it goes

If the demo and the plan are not with you within 30 working days of my having what I need from you, the full $150 comes back. One honest catch, said up front: any day I am waiting on you for photos, text or domain access does not count against those 30 days, and I will always tell you exactly what I am waiting on.

If you want to start

Reply to the message I sent you, or write to me at [email protected]. I answer everything myself, in writing, so every price and every promise stays somewhere you can hold me to it.

And if you would rather I never contacted you again, say so in one line. That is the end of it, permanently, and you will not hear from me.