Software engineering · Riemerling, Germany
We quote in weeks, not adjectives.
Most software firms will tell you a project takes "a few months" and leave the rest to the proposal. We'd rather put the arithmetic on the table first. Set three parameters below and you'll have an order of magnitude before you've spoken to anyone.
Location
Riemerling, near Munich
Team
Senior only
Sprint
Two weeks
Response
One working day
01 / Estimate
Scope calculator
Three parameters, one indicative duration. It's deliberately coarse — an order of magnitude to start the conversation, never a substitute for a proper quote.
01 — What are we building?
02 — How far does it go?
03 — Design starting point
Indicative duration
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Weeks, end to end
Pick one option in each row.
Calculated in your browser from typical ranges. Nothing is recorded or sent. Real numbers follow a scoping call, where your constraints usually move them in one direction or the other.
02 / Services
Six disciplines
Not a catalogue of everything possible — the areas we've shipped in repeatedly and are willing to be measured on.
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Mobile applications
Native iOS and Android, plus React Native and Flutter where a shared codebase genuinely serves the product rather than just the estimate.
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Web platforms
Dashboards, customer portals and SaaS products on React, Next.js and Node — tuned to stay quick on an average phone, not just a developer's machine.
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Product design
Research, clickable prototypes and design systems that keep their logic once a few years of features have piled on top.
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Backend & cloud
APIs, data models and infrastructure on AWS or Azure, scaled to the traffic you expect — with a written plan for the traffic you don't.
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Integrations & automation
Payments, ERP, CRM and logistics systems wired together properly, plus automation for the manual steps your team keeps repeating.
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Maintenance
CI/CD, monitoring and a named engineer who picks up when something breaks outside office hours.
03 / Sectors
Where the hours went
Each sector carries its own constraints — regulation, uptime, seasonal load. Knowing them upfront is most of an honest estimate.
Mittelstand
Logistics
Fleet visibility and route planning
Manufacturing
Production tracking and shop-floor tooling
Retail
Storefronts, loyalty and stock synchronisation
04 / Process
Four phases
The same sequence on every engagement — the one the calculator above splits your weeks across.
Phase 01
Scope
We map users, constraints and risks, then write down what's in and what is explicitly out before any code exists.
Phase 02
Design
Sketches become clickable prototypes and get tested while changing direction still costs nothing.
Phase 03
Build
Two-week sprints, a live demo at the end of each, automated tests running the whole way through.
Phase 04
Release
Store submission or production deployment, analytics connected, then iteration based on real usage.
05 / Firm
Small by design
Schimanski GmbH is a software engineering firm based in Riemerling, just south of Munich. We work with founders and in-house teams who want the people writing the code to also understand why it's being written.
Staying small is a constraint we chose, not a phase we're trying to outgrow. Every project gets senior attention, decisions take hours rather than weeks, and nobody is learning your domain at your expense.
It also means we turn work down when it isn't a fit. You'll hear that on the first call rather than three sprints in — which is the same reason the estimate above is public rather than buried in a proposal.
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The team you meet is the team that builds it
No swapping in juniors once the contract is signed.
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Estimates we stand behind
If something will take longer than we said, you hear it at the weekly demo — not on the final invoice.
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Code you own outright
Documented, conventional, handed over in full. Your in-house team can pick it up without an archaeology phase.
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We stay past launch
Monitoring, fixes and the next round of improvements. Release day is a checkpoint, not an exit.
06 / Contact
Tell us what you're building
Call, or send a short brief. You'll get initial questions and a rough shape of the work within one working day.
- Phone
- +49 176 41592738
- Office
- Schimanski GmbH
Kufsteiner Str. 8a
85521 Riemerling, Germany - Hours
- Mon–Fri · 9:00–17:00 CET