What Creatine.ca Would Cost to Build

An honest look at the scope behind this site and what a professional Ottawa web development agency would charge to build the same thing.

What has been built

• Around 41,000 lines of custom code across 300 source files.
• 47 distinct pages and 76 reusable UI components.
• 12 API endpoints over 8 database tables, plus a private admin dashboard.
• Roughly 154 long-form articles — 123 programmatic SEO guides, 25 news articles, and 6 blog posts — most with custom imagery.
• A custom SEO prerendering engine with per-page meta, structured data, sitemap, and hreflang.
• A fully bilingual English and French build with locale-aware URLs.

What an Ottawa agency would charge

• Design and UX: $15k–$28k
• Front-end build: $35k–$65k
• Back-end, API, database, and admin: $18k–$34k
• SEO engineering: $12k–$26k
• Content system and automation pipelines: $15k–$32k
• Content production (~150 articles + images): $25k–$50k
• QA, project management, and revisions: $14k–$28k

Realistic total

CAD $135,000 to $260,000, typically delivered over four to eight months. The single biggest cost driver is the volume of SEO content plus the custom infrastructure that keeps it all crawlable and bilingual.

Questions about the build? Contact us.