Bineks

Most web projects, this studio argues, end up split between three companies: an agency that designs the site, freelancers who code it and a hosting provider that keeps it running. Founded in 2012, the boutique team behind Bineks puts all three under one roof, with designers, engineers and DevOps staff working in the same studio so that nobody hands a project to strangers in its third year.

Designing, coding and hosting together

The studio says the person who designs a checkout sits beside the person who deploys it, which removes the handoffs and the layer of agency overhead it associates with larger firms. Its stack is built around WordPress, Laravel, Vue and Astro, and earlier material also lists Drupal. Alongside new builds it offers consultation, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization and audit work for sites that have slowed down or need updating.

Hosting on its own servers

Sites are hosted on infrastructure the studio runs itself: a dedicated server in a German data center running GitLab, Redmine, staging and production environments. The studio says it controls every layer from the operating system kernel to the stylesheet, hosts more than forty projects, and that its hosting recovers automatically in under ten minutes after a fault.

Mobile and responsive work

Beyond websites, the team supports mobile versions of sites, native iOS and Android apps and cross-platform tools. It describes clean code as being as important as clean, elegant design, and says each project gets the same care whether it is small or large.

Starting with a teardown

Instead of discovery calls or proposal decks, the studio works in three asynchronous steps: the prospective client sends their site, receives a written teardown within 48 hours, and then decides whether to go on to a build and hosting arrangement. If the studio is not a fit, the client keeps the teardown.

Demonstrations in place of case studies

The studio does not show client sites. It publishes interactive demo components stripped of client data, which visitors can open and inspect. One example is a focused store dashboard that sits on top of the WooCommerce REST API, aimed at shops whose default admin screens slow down once orders pass ten thousand. Another is a live PageSpeed audit that sets a visitor's own site beside the results the studio says it typically achieves with Astro and tuned WordPress builds. Earlier project examples included a university Drupal site, a digital training platform for coaches and a professional online proofreading service.