Focused websites
Business websites and landing pages with a clear job, custom design and a practical route to action.
Stanislav / Swindon / Independent
I design the interface, build the system and stay responsible after launch.
I am an independent web developer and product builder based in Swindon. I work directly across product structure, responsive interface design, Laravel engineering, deployment and the difficult decisions that appear in production.
SQUESTLYWATCHMORAMATCHTIDEDESIGNLOGICPRODUCTIONSWINDON
UNITED KINGDOM
UNITED KINGDOM
The path into product work
Building websites led to owning the whole product decision.
I started with websites and ongoing site work, then moved deeper into custom Laravel applications and products with accounts, data, automation, localisation and mobile experiences.
Building my own products forced me to own the full chain: decide what belongs, design how it works, engineer the system, deploy it and live with the result after the launch screen disappears.
That is the working model I bring to client projects. I do not separate the visible design from the technical responsibility underneath it.
The working model
Direct access is not a small detail.
The person discussing the brief is also shaping the information architecture, writing the production code, testing the difficult paths and looking at what happens after launch.
That continuity matters when a simple page becomes a workflow, or a product has to balance visual quality with changing data and operational constraints.
What I build
Web products
Portals, dashboards, MVPs, ecommerce systems and custom workflows with real application logic.
Existing-system work
Website redesign, Laravel development, maintenance, integrations, performance and cause-level repair.
How I think
A product is the agreement between what people see and what the system can reliably do.
Start with responsibility
Every page, screen, workflow and scheduled process needs a clear job.
Prefer evidence
Inspect the live behaviour and available data before prescribing a solution.
Design the edge states
Mobile, empty, loading, error and recovery states belong to the product.
Automate repeated work
If a reliable rule can replace routine manual effort, the system should carry it.
Ship with proof
A change is not finished until the important paths have been checked in the environment where they matter.
Technology in service of the product
Tools matter when they make the product easier to own.
My core work is centred on Laravel and PHP, with relational databases, Redis, queues, scheduled jobs, APIs and server-rendered responsive interfaces. The stack is chosen to support the product rather than to decorate a proposal.
LaravelPHPPostgreSQLMySQLRedisQueues and schedulesAPIs and integrationsBladeTailwind CSSAlpine.jsJavaScriptResponsive UIAutomationProduction deployment
Three owned products
The work is live, public and different enough to test the process.
Questly
A mobile and web participation product built around challenges, media proof and audience-aware discovery.
View Questly case study ↗Watchmora
A movie and TV discovery product built around search, recommendations, localisation and data automation.
View Watchmora case study ↗MatchTide
A football data product built around fixtures, standings, scheduled processing and official media.
View MatchTide case study ↗What you can expect
Clear scope, direct answers and no agency theatre.
- You speak with the person responsible for the implementation.
- The first release is defined before complexity spreads.
- Production changes are made with rollback and connected systems in mind.
- I will say when a feature, deadline or estimate is not responsible.
- The result is judged on the live behaviour, not only the presentation.
Work directly with the person responsible for the build.
Tell me the outcome you need, the current constraint and what already exists. We can define the useful boundary from there.