Build & Hosting Terms
These are the terms for custom website builds and the hosting care plan. They're written so a human can read them, and this is the version I hold myself to. Store and membership purchases have their own terms.
The short version
We agree on scope in writing before I start. You pay half up front, half before handoff. Builds average 2 to 4 weeks. You get two revision rounds after launch (four on Prime), and when the final payment clears, the code is 100% yours. I can host and maintain it for $100 a month, and you can leave that plan whenever you want, files and DNS in hand. Anything outside the written scope bills at $120 an hour, quoted before I touch it. Problems? Email contact@nicheof.one.
1. Who you're dealing with
The builder is J.D. Forrest, operating as Niche of One, a service-disabled-veteran-owned operation based in Nashville, Tennessee. One human. Builds ship anywhere. Questions, scope talk, complaints, compliments: contact@nicheof.one.
2. The engagement and the scope
Bespoke builds start at $2,000. The Prime package is $4,000. Before any work starts, you get a written scope: what the site includes, what it does, and what it costs. That document is the deal. Work outside it bills at $120 an hour or gets a new flat quote, whichever fits the size of the ask, and either way you approve the number before I start.
3. Payment
Half up front to book the build and start work, the other half before handoff or launch, whichever comes first. The deposit becomes non-refundable once work begins, because the work has begun. If you cancel mid-build, you keep everything produced up to that point and owe nothing further beyond the deposit.
4. Timeline
Most builds ship in 2 to 4 weeks from the day I have your deposit and your materials. Complex builds take longer, and I'll say so up front. Timelines are honest estimates, not guaranteed dates; the fastest way to keep one short is getting me content and answers quickly.
5. Revisions
Bespoke includes two revision rounds after launch; Prime includes four. A round is a consolidated list of changes, not a rolling conversation. After your rounds are used, routine updates are covered by the care plan if you're on it, and one-off work bills at $120 an hour.
6. Ownership
When the final payment clears, you own 100% of the code: every file, every line, no license-back, no strings. Until that payment clears, the work product is mine. I keep the right to point at the finished site as portfolio work unless you ask me not to.
7. What's in Prime
Prime adds, on top of everything in a Bespoke build:
- Booking, ordering, or store wiring with the tools that fit your counter (Square, Gumroad, Stripe and friends).
- Your site copy written for you, from interviews in your own words.
- A local-search setup pass: claiming and tuning your Google Business Profile, cleaning up your listings, wiring review badges, and setting up real domain email. These are one-time setup deliverables, not ongoing management.
- Four revision rounds and priority scheduling.
- The first six months of the care plan.
8. Hosting and the care plan
The care plan is $100 a month: hosting, SSL, software and content updates within reason, and a human who answers email. Month to month, cancel anytime. When you leave, you get every file and control of your DNS handed over cleanly. Uptime gets my best effort and my own sites ride the same iron, but a one-person shop doesn't pretend to offer a five-nines SLA, and this isn't one.
9. Your content
You warrant that anything you hand me to put on your site (text, photos, logos, reviews) is yours to use or properly licensed. If somebody disputes that, it's your dispute; I'll help untangle it at the hourly rate, but I'm not the one who borrowed the photo.
10. The AI checker
The checker on the builds page reads the public homepage you point it at and reports what a non-rendering crawler can see. It's informational, provided as-is, rate-limited, and only for pages that are already public. Don't point it at things you don't have the right to check.
11. Liability
If something I built breaks, I fix it; that's the whole point of a builder who sticks around. Beyond that, my total liability on any engagement is capped at the fees you actually paid me for it, and neither of us owes the other for indirect or consequential damages. Tennessee law governs.
12. Changes to these terms
If these terms change, the version that was live when you signed your scope document is the one that applies to your build. The date at the top is the tell.