Dublin hosts the European headquarters of several large technology companies. For a startup or scale-up in the same city, that shapes two things: the talent market and the questions customers ask about data.
Neighbours with bigger budgets
Engineers in Dublin have plenty of options, and salary expectations follow. For a first version of a product, a fixed-price build avoids a months-long search. You get a working app, documented systems behind it and a repository in your account. The hiring decision then comes with a running system to point at.
GDPR as the starting point
The Data Protection Commission is the regulator Irish companies answer to, and many Irish businesses sell to EU customers who expect GDPR answers in plain language. The data model is planned around purpose limitation, minimisation, retention, subject access and deletion, and the documentation lists processors and where data is stored, so the questionnaire from your next enterprise customer starts from documented answers. If it has already arrived, the vendor security review is the faster route.
Contract and invoicing
You contract with DigitalFreedom Global LLC, registered in Wyoming, United States, with invoices in US dollars. Scope, price and milestones are in writing before work starts. All prices are net; the tax treatment is clarified before contract and stated in the offer.
The deal
- First Version (MVP) from $27,800, market-ready app from $83,300
- Fixed price and scope agreed in writing before the first line of code
- Full handover of code, cloud accounts, store listings and documentation
- Remote and written, with meetings by arrangement
Country overview: app developer for Ireland. To discuss a project, get in touch.