M. Ali Petek Self-serve software contracting
Software help,
by the minute.
A one-minute fix is $1.67. No quote, no minimum.
You can vibe code most of it. The last mile is where you need a developer: the bug it keeps bringing back, the deploy, the payments, the thing that only breaks for real customers. Get that help at a fraction of the price, billed by the second, not by a quote.
The agent types. I sign off. $100 an hour of my time, billed by the second; the AI at cost, no markup.
How it works
For business owners who need software work done, not a development team to manage.
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You ask
Sign in with your email and write what you need: in the portal, by email, or in the chat below. No call to get started.
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I approve
I read every request myself. Nothing starts until I say so, and I tell you if it is the wrong thing to build.
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An agent builds
An AI agent does the typing in a sealed copy of your project. It cannot publish, deploy, or touch anything live.
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I check, then ship
I check the result before it goes anywhere. How closely is your call: a quick check that it runs, or every changed line. You follow it all in one thread.
What it costs
You pay for the time I actually spend, billed by the second, plus what the AI run cost, with no markup. No packages, no minimum.
The less of me a job needs, the less it costs. A change the agent finishes on its own is a minute or two of my time. You choose how closely I look, and you can set a budget I will not pass without asking.
Autopilot e.g. 1m 00s of my time = $1.67
The agent does the work. I approve the request and check that it runs. I do not read every line.
Checked e.g. 5m 00s of my time = $8.34
The agent does the work and I read every changed line before it ships.
Hands-on by the clock = $100.00 an hour
I work on it with the agent: decisions, hard problems, advice.
Nothing to babysit. What I build runs serverless. There is no server to patch or resize, and a traffic spike is not a migration project.
Why not just…
…vibe coding it yourself?
Do — most of it. When it stalls at the last mile, send me that part. A one-minute fix is $1.67 of my time, and you never wait for a quote.
…a ChatGPT subscription?
It writes code. It does not put it in your project, run it, or answer for it. Here the agent does the typing and a developer approves the job before it starts and checks it before you see it.
…a freelancer or an agency?
No quote, no call, no minimum invoice. A small fix does not wait until it is worth someone's afternoon: it is $1.67 of my time.
…the cheapest developer you can find?
On small jobs this is cheaper, because the agent does the hours and you pay for my minutes. And the person who signs off is the one you write to.
- Nothing starts until I approve the request.
- The agent works on a sealed copy of your project. It cannot publish, deploy, or touch anything live.
- Set a budget and I will not pass it without asking.
- If a machine stops mid-job, the job goes back in the queue instead of stalling.
- Every message, change and decision is in one thread you can read.
The shelf
3 things I built and still answer for. Proof there is a developer behind the agent.
- Leziz Thermomix
Turns web recipes into Thermomix-friendly cookidoo steps.
- PDF Extractor
osx, macos
Beta
- Viking Wars Game
Vibe coded multiplayer game
Nothing on this shelf with that label.
Writing
All 8 posts →- Breaking into the Xiaomi C200: a 16 MB flash chip, a CH341A, and one very stubborn IP camera
- Why my image is not hydrating correctly when Svelte initializes
- How to use Partytown as a theme developer
- How I Solved Chrome GPU Issue on My Linux Mint
- Annoying Secondary Display Situation with XFCE and Linux Mint
Where I've worked
Full record →- 2017–2019
- 2020
- 2021–2024
- 2022
- 2022–2023
Hover a stop, or tab through and press, to read the damage.
Agent knowledgebase
All 18 entries →- solved dsh-better-sidebar settings fail with "Failed to save HTTP 405" on DSH 0.2.1
- solved Eufy RoboVac error 3 is the drop sensors on a 35C, not the side brush the error table says
- solved Grounding GPIO0 with a bare wire dragged RESET low and reset the ESP8266 mid-flash
- solved After one bad packet, every esptool call fails with an empty StopIteration
Every problem my agents hit, and what actually fixed it — public, searchable, and
mountable by your own agent at malipetek.dev/mcp.
DeepSeek plugins
All 8 plugins →- Projects @malipetek/dsh-projects-panel Browse the projects folder as cards, like or prune them, and switch the workspace to one of them.
- Admin @malipetek/dsh-admin The malipetek.dev management portal: tickets, the work queue and its nodes, system tasks, clients and projects.
- Projects manager @malipetek/dsh-projects-manager Momentum tracking for your projects: per-project stall scoring, a ranked review, and a weekday nudge.
- AI Workspace @malipetek/dsh-ai-workspace Managed dev processes with captured logs, a live panel, and agent instructions to read the logs instead of re-running commands.
- Git graph @malipetek/dsh-git-graph Working tree, commit graph, branches, and fetch, pull and push from the Sidebar.
- File editor @malipetek/dsh-file-editor An editable workspace tree with create, rename and delete, and a text editor that saves through the session's filesystem.
- Action cards @malipetek/dsh-action-cards Turn the agent's proposed actions into editable, one-click action cards.
- Admin Ui @malipetek/admin-ui The malipetek.dev admin workbench, shared by /portal/admin and the Harness Admin plugin. One React app over one api(method, path, body).
I build these for my own harness and publish them to npm under @malipetek. Install one with dsh plugin add <name>, or read the whole set at malipetek.dev/plugins.