# Nerdify

> Nerdify is a nearshore software development company in Managua, Nicaragua, founded in 2016. An official Laravel Partner with 10 to 20 engineers building Laravel, React and React Native products, from $20 an hour.

Nerdify is an official Laravel Partner. The site is in English, with a Spanish version at https://getnerdify.com/es. Email hello@getnerdify.com, or book a call at https://getnerdify.com/contact.

- **Who is Nerdify?** Nerdify is a nearshore software development company in Managua, Nicaragua, founded in 2016 and an official Laravel Partner. A team of 10 to 20 engineers builds and runs Laravel, Node, Vue, React and React Native products, AI agents and MCP servers for startups in the US, Canada, Europe and South America, from 8 AM to 5 PM Managua time (UTC−6 all year). We also run a training school in Managua.
- **How does staff augmentation work?** A 30-minute call, then two or three profiles per role within 48 hours. The engineer you pick starts in one to two weeks and reports to you. Billed hourly per engineer, or monthly at a discount; invoiced monthly.
- **How does product development work?** We scope the product on a 30-minute call and size a pod to it: backend, frontend and mobile engineers, as many as it needs. The pod builds it from the data model to the deploy on AWS, Railway, Laravel Cloud or Forge. Then we hand it to your team, or stay on and keep it running, as we do for PickupHub.
- **What do you do, and on what stack?** Staff augmentation, product development, Consulting, and AI features and agents. Consulting covers architecture, code and infrastructure reviews, technical leadership, AI strategy, and processes and tools, on any stack. Backends in Laravel and Node, frontends in Vue, React, Nuxt and Next, mobile in React Native and NativePHP. PostgreSQL or MySQL, deployed on AWS, Railway, Laravel Cloud or Forge.
- **Where are you, and do you work US hours?** In Managua, Nicaragua. Yes: we work 8 AM to 5 PM Managua time, UTC−6 all year (Central Standard Time), with no daylight saving.
- **How much does it cost?** Engineers cost $20 to $70 an hour, depending on seniority, and small projects start at $5,000. We quote after a 30-minute call with Alejandro Galo, our head of sales. Staff augmentation is billed hourly per engineer, or monthly at a discount; product development is a fixed pod, Consulting starts with an assessment and continues monthly, and AI work is scoped per project. Prices as of October 2026.
- **What have you built, and for whom?** We built and maintain PickupHub, drop-in sports games across Canada, and 1Click’s web platform and mobile app for package forwarding from the US to Nicaragua. Nerdify engineers work inside the teams at eRank, Sharelov and Barrel Hub, and joined Productive Parks’ Laravel team. We also shipped for Grupo Nación, Decipher Credit, ULANDU, Body Temple and a US nonprofit, with a 4.7 average across 68 Upwork reviews.
- **Do you work with teams already on Laravel?** Yes, Laravel is our home stack. Nerdify is an official Laravel Partner, has worked in Laravel since 2016, and runs audits, version upgrades and refactors on a monthly retainer: we moved a US nonprofit’s two platforms from Laravel 10 to 12. At our training school in Managua, Hosmel Quintana, who is Laravel certified, teaches a Laravel course from scratch and a workshop on building APIs with it.
- **Do you build AI features?** Yes: agents and features inside your product with laravel/ai, and MCP servers that bring it into AI assistants. Our own agents run in production: lead classification, CV-to-job matching, opportunity summaries and the FAQ assistant on this page.
- **Which industries do you work in?** SaaS (Sharelov, eRank, Productive Parks), e-commerce and marketplaces (Barrel Hub, Cart-King), fintech (Decipher Credit), sports (PickupHub) and logistics (1Click, Scanovator). Also media, nonprofits and education: Grupo Nación, a US nonprofit, and Axity for Duoc UC.

## Services

- [Staff augmentation](https://getnerdify.com/services/staff-augmentation): Laravel, Node, Vue, React and React Native engineers who join your team, work in your tools and report to you. Embedded in your team, billed hourly or monthly.
- [Product development](https://getnerdify.com/services/product-development): A pod sized to the work takes a scoped product from data model to production, then hands it over to your team. A fixed pod, scoped to the work.
- [Consulting](https://getnerdify.com/services/consulting): Architecture, code and infrastructure reviews, technical leadership, AI strategy, and processes and tools, on any stack. An assessment first, then monthly support.
- [AI features & agents](https://getnerdify.com/services/ai): AI agents and features inside your product, and MCP servers that bring your product into your users’ AI assistants. We run our own agents in production. Per project, scoped on a 30-minute call.
- [Laravel development](https://getnerdify.com/services/laravel-development): Laravel development company and official Laravel Partner in Managua. We build Laravel products from the data model to production, and keep them running.
- [Hire Laravel developers](https://getnerdify.com/services/hire-laravel-developers): Hire senior and mid Laravel developers from an official Laravel Partner in Managua. Two or three profiles in 48 hours, from $20/hour, on UTC−6.
- [Laravel upgrades](https://getnerdify.com/services/laravel-upgrades): Laravel upgrade services: an audit, then one major version at a time through your review. We moved a US nonprofit’s two platforms from Laravel 10 to 12.
- [Laravel consulting](https://getnerdify.com/services/laravel-consulting): Laravel consulting for teams already on Laravel: a code audit, then refactors and half-built features on a monthly retainer. Official Laravel Partner.
- [React Native development](https://getnerdify.com/services/react-native-development): React Native development for iOS and Android, on the same API as your web app. We built 1Click’s app and still ship it to the App Store and Google Play.
- [Hire React Native developers](https://getnerdify.com/services/hire-react-native-developers): Hire senior and mid React Native developers for iOS and Android from Managua, Nicaragua. Two or three profiles in 48 hours, from $20/hour, on UTC−6.
- [Nearshore software development](https://getnerdify.com/nearshore-software-development): Nearshore software development from Managua, Nicaragua: 8 AM to 5 PM, UTC−6 all year, inside most of the US workday. Engineers from $20 an hour.

## Case studies

- [PickupHub](https://getnerdify.com/clients/pickuphub): PickupHub helps players across Canada find and book drop-in sports games near them. Nerdify built the product and still maintains it.
- [eRank](https://getnerdify.com/clients/erank): eRank gives Etsy sellers keyword research and listing optimization. Nerdify engineers work inside its team as it moves the product to a new app.
- [1Click](https://getnerdify.com/clients/1click): 1Click forwards packages from the US to Nicaragua. Nerdify built its package-tracking web platform and its iOS and Android app, and still maintains both.
- [A US nonprofit](https://getnerdify.com/clients/a-us-nonprofit): A US nonprofit runs two web platforms, one a tablet app for correctional facilities. Nerdify engineers work on both and moved them from Laravel 10 to 12.
- [Barrel Hub](https://getnerdify.com/clients/barrel-hub): Barrel Hub is a B2B marketplace for buying and bidding on bulk whiskey barrels. Nerdify engineers maintain and extend it across the stack.

## Training

Workshops and weekend courses in Managua, and a free online bootcamp open to all of Latin America, all taught in Spanish.

- [Free online bootcamp](https://getnerdify.com/training/bootcamp): live online web development classes in Spanish, open to applicants from all of Latin America.
- [Corporate training](https://getnerdify.com/training/companies)
- [Taller: Automatiza tus tareas con ChatGPT](https://getnerdify.com/training/taller-automatiza-tus-tareas-con-chatgpt): Trae una tarea que repites cada semana y llévate ChatGPT listo para hacerla por ti.

## Blog

Articles written by Nerdify's team about the work behind client products.

- [API design best practices we use on every Laravel project](https://getnerdify.com/blog/api-design-best-practices): The conventions we apply to every Laravel API, from URLs and status codes to errors, versioning, pagination and safe retries, with the code we start from.
- [Building apps with React Native in 2026](https://getnerdify.com/blog/building-apps-with-react-native): How we build production React Native apps today, from Expo and the New Architecture to a Laravel API, resilient networking, testing and store releases.
- [Custom web application development: What it really takes](https://getnerdify.com/blog/custom-web-application-development): What building a custom web app involves, from scope to maintenance, what drives the cost, and when buying software off the shelf is the better call.
- [Database design decisions that save you later](https://getnerdify.com/blog/database-design-best-practices): The schema decisions we make early on every Laravel project, with the migrations for constraints, types, keys, tenancy, history and live changes.
- [How to choose a technology stack](https://getnerdify.com/blog/how-to-choose-technology-stack): Choose the stack your team can build and maintain for years, that fits what the product does, and that you can hire for. How we decide, with examples.
- [How to define a project scope before the first sprint](https://getnerdify.com/blog/how-to-define-project-scope): A software project scope lists the goal, the users, the flows with acceptance criteria, what is out, and how changes get handled. Our template inside.
- [How we make slow web apps fast](https://getnerdify.com/blog/how-to-improve-website-speed): To speed up a website, measure real users first, then fix the server response, the database, the main image and the JavaScript, in that order.
- [Nearshore vs. offshore: What changes for your team](https://getnerdify.com/blog/nearshore-vs-offshore-outsourcing): Nearshore teams work in or near your time zone. Offshore teams are far away, often half a day ahead. What that changes for cost, speed and how you work.
- [Quality assurance in a small product team](https://getnerdify.com/blog/quality-assurance-in-software-development): Quality assurance is the set of habits that keep defects out of a release, from the ticket to production. Here is how a small team runs it.
- [Our software testing checklist before every release](https://getnerdify.com/blog/software-testing-checklist): The checklist we run on Laravel and React releases, from the pull request to the hour after deploy, with the tests and commands behind each step.
- [Staff augmentation vs. outsourcing](https://getnerdify.com/blog/staff-augmentation-vs-outsourcing): With staff augmentation you add engineers to your team and direct them. With outsourcing a vendor delivers an outcome. How to pick, from a firm that does both.
- [What we check in a web app security audit](https://getnerdify.com/blog/website-security-audit): A website security audit reviews code, configuration, dependencies and infrastructure for weaknesses. This is the list we work through, in order.

## Optional

- [Clients](https://getnerdify.com/clients): Products we built and teams Nerdify engineers joined, in the US, Canada, Europe and South America.
- [Events](https://getnerdify.com/events): Meetups and workshops we host in Managua, talks we give at other events, and events we sponsor. In Spanish, in person.
- [Careers](https://getnerdify.com/careers): Engineering roles at Nerdify. You work from our office in Managua, on US hours, inside our clients’ teams.
- [Privacy](https://getnerdify.com/privacy)