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I’m Abdelmounaim. I build software for the work you still do by hand, and you pay nothing until it works.
Most small businesses have one job someone does by hand every week. A report rebuilt from the same spreadsheets. Invoices chased one by one. Orders typed from emails into a sheet. I write software that does that job, one workflow at a time, built around how you already work.
This is how it goes. We talk until we both know what to build, and I write it down with a delivery date. I build it at my own cost. You test it on your real data against the checklist we agreed. If it passes, you choose: rent it for a monthly fee from €50 plus what the servers cost, or buy it outright for the hours it took me to build. If it doesn’t pass, you pay nothing.
Examples
Supplier e-invoices · Starter
By hand: More and more suppliers send e-invoices: an XML file, sometimes tucked inside a PDF. Someone opens each one, checks the amount and the VAT, saves it in the right folder, and types the figures into the list that goes to the accountant at month end.
With the software: It watches the invoice mailbox, reads each e-invoice, checks the totals and the VAT, files it under the right supplier and month, and builds the export your accountant wants. A total that does not add up or a missing VAT number is flagged for you before it reaches the list.
A bakery with three shops and one kitchen · Standard
By hand: Each shop sends tomorrow’s order to the kitchen’s chat group, each in its own way: one as a voice message, one as a photo of the till screen, one typed into the chat. At ten at night the baker copies it all into a spreadsheet, adds it up, guesses the week’s flour and butter from last week’s numbers, and places the order in the supplier’s web shop. Something is always missed, so one shop runs out of rye by eleven and another throws bread away.
With the software: Each shop enters tomorrow’s order on a phone before six, and the one that forgets gets a reminder. The kitchen gets one combined list per product by seven in the evening, sorted the way the ovens are loaded. It keeps the totals for every shop and every day, so you see what sells where and what gets thrown away, and every Thursday it drafts the supplier order from the week’s real numbers, ready to send.
A heating and plumbing firm with six technicians · Plus
By hand: Jobs come in by phone, email and the website form. Someone plans the week on a whiteboard, texts each technician their jobs, orders parts by phone, and writes the invoices days later from paper notes. When a customer calls to ask when someone is coming, that person has to find out first.
With the software: Every request lands in one list, whichever way it arrived. It drafts each day’s schedule by location and skills, sends each technician their route to the phone, and gives the customer a time window and a message when the van is on its way. On site, the technician ticks off the work and the parts used, with photos. From that it writes the invoice, sends it as an e-invoice, books it in your accounting, and reorders the parts that ran low from your supplier. If someone calls in sick, it redraws the day and tells only the people affected.
What it costs
Three sizes if you rent, all month to month with no minimum term. Pay a year at once and you pay for 10 months. Hosting is billed separately at what it costs me, with nothing added.
- Starter · one simple automation, for one person. Support within 3 business days€50 /mo
- Standard · a tool your whole team works in, with 1 hour of small changes a month. Support within 2 business days. Most projects land here€100 /mo
- Plus · the tool the business runs on, connected to your other systems, with 3 hours of small changes a month. Support within 1 business day€200 /mo
Rent it. The software stays mine and I keep it running: monitoring, security updates, fixes, and me when something breaks. You pay the monthly fee for as long as it is useful and stop at the end of any month.
Buy it. You pay for the hours it took me to build, at €50 an hour, and it is yours: the source code, the rights to your copy, and a handover onto accounts in your name. From then on the provider bills the hosting to you directly, and my maintenance ends unless you want to keep me on a monthly retainer. I log the hours as I build, you get the total at launch before your first payment, and it does not change afterwards.
You can buy at the start or after renting for a while, at the same rate; what you paid monthly is not credited against it. Either way, nothing is invoiced before the software passes the checklist. If a build takes only a few hours, buying is the sensible choice and I will say so.
The catch
If you rent, the software stays mine. You use it like the other tools you subscribe to, and that is the trade for me carrying the cost of building it. Buying ends that: the software is yours. The rest is in the contract before I start: the scope we both signed, with the delivery date; no invoice before the checklist passes; a rent that does not change and a buy price fixed at launch; your data on EU servers, exportable at any time. Nothing on this page is missing from the contract.
About me
Quiet Real is me, a software engineer in Berlin. I do the whole job, from the first call to the fixes afterwards. It stays one person, permanently. I am not hiring, not building a team, and not handing you to one later. I take on one new build at a time, so the person who wrote your software is the one who answers when it breaks. If something happens to me, a continuity clause in your contract gives you the code and your data.
Abdelmounaim Bousmatcontact@quietreal.comin/abdelmounaim-bousmat
Questions
What does the rent include, and what doesn’t? Included: monitoring, security updates, bug fixes, and me answering when something breaks. Not included: the server cost, billed on top at cost, and new features, which I quote as fixed-price add-ons. You know both numbers before I build.
Can the monthly price go up? Not for software you already have. The fee at launch is in the contract and stays. Hosting follows what the servers cost; if that changes, you see the provider’s numbers before anything does.
What happens if I cancel? You cancel at the end of any month, the first one included. The software goes offline, you get a full export of your data, and the export stays available for 30 days. No exit fee.
If I buy it, what changes? You own it, it runs on your accounts, and the provider bills the hosting to you. Looking after it is your call: do it yourself, hire anyone, or keep me on an optional retainer. The buy price is the build hours at €50 an hour, so buying later costs the same as buying at the start; the months you rented are not deducted.
Who owns my data? You do. We sign a GDPR data-processing agreement before any of it reaches my systems, and you can export everything at any time.
Will Quiet Real grow into an agency? No. I am not hiring developers, not taking on partners, and not selling a client list to someone who will. One person is the point.
Write to me
Describe the job you want gone. I reply myself with whether it is worth automating, which size it is, and roughly how long it would take. If you don’t need me, I say so.