Five other ways to get this built, and how I compare
I am Ahsan Mahmood, an AI-native full-stack developer in Lahore with 8+ years of hands-on experience. AI agents write most of my code now; I decide what they build, review it and confirm it works. That is one way to get software made. These are the other five, including the jobs where I would send you to them.
The five routes
None of these is the wrong answer. Each one fits some jobs better than I do, and its page says which.
Choose it when the software is the business and needs someone every day for years.
How I work now
I can write all of this by hand, and for most of my career I did. I work through AI agents now because they produce code far faster than I can. I decide what gets built and how, I tell them, and I review what comes back. Nothing is finished until I have confirmed it is correct.
What took me a month now takes a day or a week, and I would put the change at 10 to 100 times. That is my own statement from doing the work rather than a measurement, so read it beside the dates here.
Those dates come from each product's commit history and my own project records, and they say nothing about how long your project will take. A date for that comes after a scoping call.
Tell me what you are building. The first call is free and lasts thirty minutes, and if one of the other routes suits the job better, I will say so on that call.