HQ Paphos, Cyprus · worldwide
Founder · Creative Director
Product designer and creative director focused on AI products, engineering-led builds and startup launches.
What a New Zealand property developer should budget for a project website, phase by phase: campaign landing or full launch site, what drives the cost, realistic timelines, and how to keep assets from delaying launch.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Before you compare providers, pick the format. A three-month cost comparison of a design subscription, a freelancer and an in-house hire for the same workload, who manages and owns what, and when each one is the right call.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Leaving Webflow for Next.js trades a monthly platform bill for a one-off migration, cheaper hosting and code you own. Here is the full cost of staying versus moving, a 1-year and 3-year break-even with every assumption stated, and the cases where staying on Webflow is the better call.
By Alexander Vinokurov
We use AI coding assistants on client sites and on our own apps. Writing a change got cheap; reading it did not. These are the checks we put between an assistant's draft and production, taken from the repository that runs this site, and the one rule that decides whether a check is worth having.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A practical checklist for anyone buying a website, design or copy: the signs of unreviewed AI output in a pitch, a portfolio and the work itself, the questions to ask before you sign, and what good answers sound like.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Plenty of business owners now read AI as a sign that a vendor cut corners. The real problem is AI output nobody checked. Here is what we hand to an agent, what stays with people, and how one real WordPress-to-Webflow migration split.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Is Webflow good for SEO, and what should a Webflow SEO agency in New Zealand actually do? What the platform handles natively, the setup mistakes we see, local and AI-search work, and what it costs in NZD.
By Alexander Vinokurov
What WordPress maintenance costs in New Zealand in 2026, what a care plan actually covers, and what it misses — with three Auckland WordPress sites we support as evidence.
By Alexander Vinokurov
The code is rarely what holds an Android launch back. Account type, testing rules, target API, 16 KB pages, Data safety, re-signing and review do — notes from shipping six of our own apps to Google Play in 2026.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Should an Auckland property launch run on WordPress or Webflow? A side-by-side on running costs, maintenance, security, enquiry forms and editing — from a studio that ships property sites on both.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Part 4 of our AI-search experiment: 6,316 Google impressions in three months, 259 inside Google's AI features, and AI assistants now sending almost twice as many visits as organic search.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A trader asked us to rewrite his weather market maker in Rust. We measured the opportunity first — 256,000 order-book snapshots across 1,702 temperature buckets — and told him not to build it. What the reward economics actually look like, why the richest markets are the worst, and why we threw away our own positive result.
By Alexander Vinokurov
All 27 Webflow partners returned for New Zealand, checked against Webflow's current directory and each company's site: specialists, multi-platform agencies and offshore alternatives.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Every page of 99francs.agency is served as clean Markdown to any client that asks — same URL, one Accept header, about a tenth of the bytes. Here is the Next.js setup behind it: the proxy rewrite, the converter route, llms.txt — and the six-week bug that quietly served our homepage to every AI agent while every browser test passed.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Superside starts at $15,000 a month on an annual term. Here is the real design subscription market by price and by need, including when Superside is genuinely the right answer.
By Alexander Vinokurov
What a production AI agent costs in New Zealand in 2026 — public NZ market benchmarks, realistic custom-build ranges, ongoing costs and a lower-risk way to pay only after each phase works.
By Alexander Vinokurov
How a market-making bot survives on a fast prediction market: the anti-pickoff logic behind a live Polymarket system — pre-signed cancels, event-reactive requoting, order-book imbalance guards and enforced post-only quoting, and how they fire together the instant the underlying moves.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Before a prediction-market trading strategy touches real money, we put it through backtests against real order-book depth and a staged ladder of simulation modes — inert, virtual, mirror, then a small real bring-up. Here is how the de-risking pipeline works, and why every promotion is gated by evidence rather than optimism.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A live market-making bot on the Polymarket prediction market was leaking money to a slow control loop. We kept the quant logic in Python and moved only the latency-critical execution path into a Rust sidecar — cutting the reaction time on the most expensive event from roughly two seconds to the low tens of milliseconds.
By Alexander VinokurovPart 2 of our AI-search experiment: 31 days after restructuring 99francs.agency for Google and answer engines, impressions grew 712%, clicks grew 267%, and the work produced qualified leads — including one that found us through an LLM.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Nine web development companies worth shortlisting in Norway in 2026 — Oslo UX studios, WordPress and Webflow specialists, headless-commerce teams and remote options compared by focus, strengths and typical fit.
By Alexander Vinokurov
New Zealand's AI Advisory Pilot co-funds an AI plan for SMEs — what it actually covers, the gap between a funded plan and a working agent, and how outcome-based development removes the build risk.
By Alexander Vinokurov
Eleven of the best web design and development agencies in New Zealand for 2026, compared by location, specialism, Clutch rating, minimum project, hourly rate and commercial model.
By Alexander Vinokurov
How much a website costs in New Zealand in 2026: website design prices in NZD for landing pages, business websites, e-commerce and custom builds, plus yearly running costs, platform fees and build times.
By Alexander Vinokurov
How we design and build AI agents that survive production, not just the demo — feasibility proof, behavior prototypes, tested action maps, provider fallbacks, and an outcome-based model where you pay only when the agent works.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A field guide to designing AI agents people actually trust — six UX patterns for control, autonomy, uncertainty, memory, voice, and failure, each drawn from agents we have shipped.
By Alexander Vinokurov
How we build startup MVPs without upfront payment — an outcome-based, phase-by-phase process where you pay only for results you approve, delivered as design plus working code in about two to three weeks.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A practical comparison for founders choosing between a senior design subscription, product design help, Webflow work, and MVP launch support.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A practical guide for startups that want visibility in Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and other answer engines.
By Alexander Vinokurov
What design subscriptions cost in 2026: verified monthly prices for ManyPixels, Penji, Awesomic, Teamtown, Eleken, DesignJoy, Designity, Superside and 99 Francs, what each budget level buys, and which plan fits an MVP.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A practical comparison for founders choosing between Penji's graphic design subscription model and 99 Francs for product UX, MVPs, app design, and launch-ready web work.
By Alexander Vinokurov
A founder's checklist for choosing a design subscription for an MVP: what to check, code handoff and file ownership, red flags to avoid, and a scorecard for comparing candidates.
By Alexander Vinokurov
DesignJoy is $4,995 a month for one senior designer. Here are the real alternatives in that band with verified prices — and the case for not subscribing at all.
By Alexander Vinokurov
