Your website shouldn’t fall apart after launch.

We migrate websites stuck on legacy CMS platforms to modern setups and stay accountable for them over time. So your marketing team can move without waiting on developers or agencies that disappear after launch.

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What actually goes
wrong after launch

Most websites don't fail at launch.
They fail slowly, a few months later.

Content changes up and break layouts.

Performance degrades without anyone noticing.

Third-party tools stop working and nobody knows why.

It feels riskier and riskier to do changes on the website.

Unclear responsibility from the agency that built the website, as it is busy with new projects.

The Root Cause

This isn't because teams are careless. It happens because ownership ends at handover.

Websites aren’t one-time projects

Websites are long-living systems

We stay in touch

We never build and then just disappear.

Ask us anything

If you face any challenge, we are here for you.

Long-term ownership

We take technical ownership from day one.

No vendor lock-in

We build in your accounts or design for clean transfer.

Services

What we do for you

From scaling what you already have to
starting from scratch – we’ve got you!

Headless
Website

We build headless websites for teams that are done patching together fragile setups. Editor independence and performance from day one.

How we build from scratch

Headless
Migration

We migrate websites from legacy CMS platforms to modern headless setups. SEO stays intact, content workflows improve, complexity drops.

How the migration works

Website
Subscription

We handle your website and marketing tech work on a monthly subscription. No hiring, no project overhead, no hand-holding. You send us the work, we get it done.

How the subscription works

Our Approach

Every project is design-led. We care about typography, hierarchy, and clarity. Not for awards, but because good design reduces friction.

Technical excellence is baseline. Because responsiveness and clear communication is what separates good work from bad.

Are we a match?

Who this is for

This works well if you

  • Are an established company with 30+ employees

  • Have a small marketing team with big growth targets

  • Manage multiple markets or languages

  • Are slowed down by your CMS or agency

  • Want fewer partners, not more

This is not a fit if you

  • Want a quick or cheap website

  • Expect a handover without ongoing responsibility

  • Are early-stage with no internal marketing team

  • Prefer visual gimmicks over performance

Our Process

How engagement works

1

Audit

We assess your current setup (CMS, hosting, integrations, content workflows) and identify what's holding you back.

2

Build

We build or migrate your site to a modern headless stack. SEO stays intact, performance improves, and your team gets a better workflow.

3

Ownership

After launch, we stay responsible. We monitor, maintain, and evolve your site as your business grows.

Our Promise

We guarantee only one client in ramp-up at any given time.

That means full attention during the critical phase. No split teams, no context switching, no excuses.

Once your site is live and in ownership mode, we scale support according to what your project actually needs.

Results built on
real experience

We developed this proven model while working on complex, multi-market website migrations for companies managing hundreds of pages across multiple languages.

What clients notice

  • Faster publishing without fear of breaking things

  • Stable performance that doesn’t degrade over time

  • Fewer technical surprises after launch

  • Clear accountability when something needs attention

“David impressed me with his technical expertise, clear communication, and strong organizational skills during our redesign. If you want a skilled and personable partner, David is the one.”

Pavla Dobiasova

Pavla Dobiasova

Marketing Coordinator, Eversport GmbH

Ready to explore if this model fits your needs?

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About us

Essential Code

Essential Code is a micro agency from Vienna, Austria built around a very simple belief: websites are systems, not projects. Someone must own them after launch, or they fall apart.

I’m David Wippel, owner of Essential Code. I’ve been working in web development for 20+ years. One constant pattern emerges after many projects: building it is the easy part. Keeping it alive and usable over time is where things get hard and messy.

Slow performance creeps in. Content workflows break. Small issues pile up. And the agency that built it is already three projects down the road.

That pattern needed to change.

Meet the Team

Essential Code is founder-led and works with a small network of trusted specialists. We also collaborate with adjacent experts in branding, marketing, content strategy, SEO, and infrastructure when projects require it.

David Wippel

David Wippel

Owner, Development

Oliver Schöndorfer

Oliver Schöndorfer

Design, Zeichenschatz.net

Stefan Rösch

Stefan Rösch

Development

How we work

  • Bigger is not better. We’re small by design. The people you meet are the people who build it.

  • Technical excellence is baseline. What separates good work from bad is respect for design and long-term ownership.

  • We don’t hand off projects and disappear. We stay responsible.

What’s a micro agency?

A micro agency is deliberately small and built for focused, long-term partnerships. The people you meet in the first call are the people who build your site.

No handoffs.

No account managers.

No bait-and-switch.

If your website has become a bottleneck, let’s talk!

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