Booking new projects
Hi, I'm Simon .
I build websites and web apps for people who want them to actually work: marketing sites, custom applications, AI features. I've shipped my own products too, so I know the difference between something that demos well and something that holds up in production.
About Simon
I'm Simon, a UK-based freelance web designer and developer, working with clients here and remote. I care about shipping things that actually do the job, not just look the part. Most of my work sits between marketing sites and custom applications, with a growing share of AI features.
Things I've built
Reaper Drones
CAA risk assessments for UK drone operators.
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Guild Raven
Your guild, all in one place.
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A family productivity app
Carries the mental load so the household doesn't have to remember it all.
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Altitude Drone Surveying
Drone surveys from a chartered surveyor
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The Non-Starters
We never got off the ground.
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Shabby Road
The songs you love, played with soul.
Six concept sites. Yours next.
Built these to show range across industries. Pick one that's close to your thing, I'll make yours.
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Voltline Electrical
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Hartley & Sons Landscapes
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Northbridge Plumbing
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Beechwood Care
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Tideway Swim Academy
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Cobalt Aerospace
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Client testimonials
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Simon got our site live in days, not months. He pushed back where it mattered, asked questions I hadn't thought of, and made the right calls. No hand-holding required.
Adam Altitude Drone Surveying -
Half the brief was jokes, the other half was contradictions. Simon got both. The site sounds like us, not like a brochure.
Barry The Non-Starters -
We needed somewhere bookers could find our setlist and listen before calling. Done in a week. Looks better than half the venues we play.
Simon Shabby Road
- 20 years in tech
- 3 products of my own, live
- 2 days reply time, always
What I build
I build for what you actually ship. Not the polished demo, not the hypothetical scale. The real thing. Three areas I work in most:
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Marketing sites
Landing pages and multi-page sites that load fast and read well. Built to convert, not just to look good.
- Astro / Next.js
- CMS optional
- Deployed to Vercel or Cloudflare
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Web applications
Custom apps with forms, dashboards, payments, auth. Whatever the project needs. I build for what you actually ship, not a hypothetical.
- Next.js + Postgres
- Stripe, auth, dashboards
- Real production scale
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AI features
Email automation, AI-powered workflows, integrations with Claude and similar APIs. I know where these tools earn their keep and where they're just noise.
- Claude API
- Structured extraction
- Bounded, cached, observable
How this works
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Tell me what you have in mind
A short message via the form below: what you're building, who it's for, any constraints. No need for a brief.
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I come back with a plan and a price
Within a couple of days. A straight quote, an honest sense of timeline, and what I'd push back on. No retainers, no sales calls.
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We ship
Most projects take two to six weeks. You see progress as it lands, not at the end. If something's not working, we change it before it ships, not after.
Get in touch
Want one for your project?
Two minutes. Fill in the blanks. I'll come back within a couple of days with thoughts and a rough quote. No sales pitch, no retainer.
Thanks, message received.
I'll come back to you within a couple of days.
Six concept sites in a week
What I learned building speculative marketing sites for six different verticals back to back.
Custom domain on GitHub Pages with Cloudflare DNS
The exact DNS records, GitHub settings, and gotchas to get a domain serving over HTTPS in about ten minutes.
Where AI earns its keep
After a year of shipping LLM features, the heuristics I use to decide whether one belongs in a product.
