Private progress previews
I can provide a private web preview or suitable mobile test build so you can inspect agreed work before approving the next milestone or final payment.
Custom software services
React, React Native, Node.js, MySQL and Next.js app creation services.
Hire a UK developer for social networking and messaging apps, cross-platform Apple App Store and Google Play projects, admin dashboards, customer portals, SaaS tools, React web applications, separately engineered Node.js APIs, MySQL systems, Next.js stores, AI-assisted payment-gateway integrations, including experience with Stripe, and SMTP integration for custom-domain email addresses, existing-app upgrades, branded newsletters and automated email systems, deployment support, and other custom software—with a tailored plan, quotation, and continued engineering support. Template-based custom Next.js stores and focused Next.js Magic UI builds start from £500.
Your contact information and project details stay private and are never sold, published, shared with other customers, or used for unrelated marketing. Reviews are always optional, may be anonymous, and choosing not to provide one is completely fine.
UK based software engineer
Built by a Kent-born, Devon-based software engineer with a cyber security background.
I provide custom software services and create Next.js stores, React web apps, React Native mobile apps, Node.js backends, and MySQL systems using a serious self-study approach, cyber security foundations, and AI-assisted development with ChatGPT Codex.
Cyber-security focused
Started through the UK Government Cyber Discovery programme and continued into secure app and backend development.
High-IQ, adaptable builder
Comfortable learning new frameworks, databases, hosting setups, and product requirements quickly.
Custom Builds
Hire me to build your store, app, or product
Template-based custom Next.js stores and focused Magic UI websites start from £500. I also build social and messaging apps, admin dashboards, portals, SaaS tools, and custom React applications—with continued support after delivery.
From £2,000
React Native Mobile App
Cross-platform social networking, community, messaging, subscription, marketplace, and business mobile apps backed by first-hand Apple App Store approval experience.
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- Cross-platform iOS and Android app screens
- Social profiles, feeds, messaging, and community workflows
- Apple App Store and Google Play build preparation
- API connection plan and reusable components
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From £500
Next.js Magic UI Web Application
Polished Next.js websites and focused interfaces from £500, using reusable Magic UI components and Next.js's integrated server framework. This application can share a £6-per-month UK VPS with a mobile backend and local MySQL; larger builds are quoted to scope.
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- Animated Magic UI page sections
- Reusable Next.js component structure
- Responsive product-ready layouts
- Performance review with reduced-motion or lightweight alternatives
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From £500
Custom Next.js Store
A tailored Next.js storefront from £500, built by adapting a suitable Vercel starter or licensed commercial template and adding the design, products, payments, data, and workflows required for your business.
Next.jsPayment gatewaysStripeMySQLSMTP
- Product catalog and checkout flow
- Private admin dashboard for orders, downloads, and customer operations
- Payment-gateway and webhook integration, including Stripe experience
- Authenticated SMTP setup for your custom-domain email addresses
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From £2,000
React Web Application
Purpose-built React applications with separately engineered Node.js APIs and MySQL database layers, priced above focused Next.js builds to reflect the additional custom backend, data, security, testing, and deployment work.
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- Frontend and backend architecture
- Custom Node.js API routes, validation, and access controls
- Admin dashboards, user roles, and management workflows
- AI-selected news feeds tailored to the customer's industry, risks, competitors, or technology stack
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From £500
Branded Email & Newsletter System
A visually polished email and newsletter composer built into your application or admin dashboard, with reusable templates, logos, inline images, previews, subscriber delivery, and optional review requests.
Next.jsReactSMTPCustom-domain emailTrustpilot
- Responsive branded HTML email templates with plain-text fallbacks
- Admin-dashboard composer for emails and consented newsletters
- Logo, hero-image, inline-image, link, and call-to-action controls
- Desktop and mobile previews before sending
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More development options
Other ways I can help with your project
These services are quoted according to the existing codebase, required integrations, security needs, launch target, and amount of new development. If your idea is not listed, choose Other / custom project in the inquiry form.
Portfolio and business websites
Professional portfolio, personal-brand, service, and small-business websites with responsive pages, enquiry forms, analytics, and clear calls to action.
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Admin dashboards and client portals
Secure operational screens for customers, staff, orders, users, files, analytics, enquiries, and other business workflows.
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SaaS MVPs and internal tools
Focused first versions of subscription products, workflow tools, account areas, and private systems built around your core idea.
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APIs, databases and backends
Node.js APIs, MySQL data models, authentication, server-side workflows, integrations, and backend improvements for web or mobile apps.
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Payments, subscriptions and email
AI-assisted payment-gateway integration, including experience with Stripe, plus recurring billing, StoreKit, eligible Apple Pay flows, authenticated SMTP for custom-domain email addresses, notifications, and secure webhooks.
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Google advertising and technical SEO
Google AdMob integration for supported iOS and Android apps, AdSense placement for eligible websites, and meticulous technical SEO covering metadata, canonical URLs, sitemaps, structured data, accessibility, and performance.
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Custom email inboxes and support desks
Private Gmail-style inboxes tailored to your workflow, with received messages, attachments, search, statuses, routing details, authentication results, and other useful email metadata.
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App fixes, upgrades and performance
Help with an existing React, Next.js, Node.js, or React Native project that needs debugging, modernisation, new features, or optimisation.
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Deployment and launch support
Environment configuration, production builds, Linux deployment, domain setup, launch checks, and iOS or Android store-preparation guidance.
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Project inquiry
Tell me what you want to sell or build.
Use this form for custom pricing on a social networking app, mobile app, admin dashboard, digital store, client portal, SaaS MVP, API, integration, upgrade, deployment, or another custom software project. The form securely records your inquiry and sends it directly to my business email for a response.
Preview and staged approval
Review working software before the final handoff.
I can provide secure previews throughout the agreed project so you can analyse progress, test important workflows, and request reasonable in-scope changes. The payment structure is agreed before work begins and reflects the size, risk, and engineering effort involved.
Request included changes
You can request reasonable revisions covered by the agreed scope at no extra charge before confirming that the build is right for you.
Payment terms matched to scope
A focused lower-cost build may qualify for payment after preview. Complex custom applications require an agreed deposit or paid milestones before substantial engineering begins.
Focused websites or template-based builds may be eligible for approval and payment after a completed preview. Substantial React, React Native, Node.js, API, authentication, or MySQL projects require a deposit, paid discovery, or milestone payments because they consume significant engineering time, testing effort, infrastructure, and paid AI-development resources such as ChatGPT Codex usage. A complex completed application therefore cannot be declined without paying for work already approved and completed. New features outside the agreed scope are quoted separately. Source code, production credentials, final deployment, and third-party licences are transferred only after the final balance is paid.
Software terms explained
MVP and SaaS in plain English
These terms describe the type and stage of an application, not a fixed technology or package.
MVP
Minimum Viable Product
The first genuinely usable version of an application. It concentrates on the essential features needed to solve the main problem and test the idea with real users before more time and budget are invested in every planned feature.
SaaS
Software as a Service
Software that is hosted online and used through a browser or app. Customers normally sign in to an account, and the provider operates the application, database, updates, and infrastructure. Some SaaS products charge a recurring subscription, but not all do.
SaaS MVP
A focused first version of an online service
An initial SaaS release containing the core customer journey, accounts, data, and operational tools needed to validate the service. MVP describes a deliberate limit on feature scope—not low engineering quality, weak security, or an unfinished interface.
Honest performance guidance
Choose visual effects that suit your customers' devices.
Next.js itself can be fast, but animation-heavy Magic UI components, large templates, WebGL effects, blur layers, and excessive client-side JavaScript may feel slow or less smooth on older phones and computers. I will explain this trade-off before recommending a design.
Faster alternatives when animation is not essential
- Lean React interfaces with purpose-built components and fewer dependencies
- Restrained business interfaces with predictable controls instead of constant motion
- Standard HTML and CSS sites for simple content, speed, and broad compatibility
- Reduced-motion versions of animated layouts for older or lower-powered devices
- Performance testing before launch so design choices match the target audience
A lighter custom React build or standard HTML/CSS website is often a better option when maximum smoothness, accessibility, and support for older hardware are more important than complex animation.
A directly engineered React interface backed by a custom Node.js API and MySQL database may look more restrained than an animation-led template, but that can feel more professional for dashboards, portals, stores, and operational applications. Fewer decorative effects and third-party visual layers can mean more predictable controls, clearer feedback, easier maintenance, and fewer distracting hover, scrolling, stacking, or low-powered-device glitches. Performance still depends on careful architecture, implementation, and testing rather than the technology names alone.
Custom admin dashboards
Useful admin dashboards and internal tools for real work.
I can design and build private admin areas for ecommerce stores, social platforms, SaaS products, React Native mobile-app backends, customer portals, and other data-driven applications. Each dashboard can be tailored to the project's database, APIs, staff roles, and everyday workflows.
- Projects, revenue, downloads, enquiries, and audience insights
- Useful operational tools connected to your real application data
- Custom Gmail-style inboxes with received messages, attachments, replies, search, workflow statuses, routing details, and useful email metadata
- Private authentication, operational logs, and file sharing
- AI-selected recent news tailored to the business, industry, risks, competitors, or technology stack
A working CodeKits example: an editorial-style private feed that continuously searches official React, React Native, Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, Ubuntu Server and Linux sources, prioritises consequential changes, and explains why they matter to my software-development work.
Secure project delivery
Working with me includes practical tools for sharing large files.
Instead of passing large builds, videos, project folders, and design assets through ordinary email attachments, I can create a protected CodeKits transfer link. Clients can download files from me, upload files back to the private admin workspace, or use both directions through one clear portal.
The current managed workflow supports guest files up to 10 GB and administrator files up to 50 GB, subject to available hosting capacity. Transfers use authenticated chunked HTTPS requests and restricted private server storage.
Two-way transfers
I can send large project files to you, and you can upload files securely back to the same protected workspace.
Private permissions
Each unlisted link can allow uploads, downloads, or both, while files remain outside the public website.
Automatic expiry
Choose a time limit so temporary project files are removed after the agreed sharing period.
Download-count deletion
A transfer can also close and remove its files after 1, 5, 10, 25, or 100 downloads.
Screenshots use representative project names and file details—not customer records, private URLs, passwords, IP addresses, or access tokens.
Discuss a projectContinued support included
You are supported after purchase or delivery.
Support continues after handover, with practical help related to the delivered projectrather than leaving you with code and no direction.
Questions answered
Get clear follow-up answers about the supplied code, setup documentation, configuration, and technical handover.
Tailored command sheets
Request practical command sheets for installation, deployment, server configuration, updates, and common troubleshooting.
Engineering plans
Receive structured next-step plans covering architecture, milestones, integrations, security work, testing, and launch preparation.
Included support covers reasonable questions and guidance connected to the purchased product or agreed project scope. New features, substantial redevelopment, managed hosting, and third-party charges are quoted separately.
Ubuntu server deployment
Cost-effective application hosting on an Ubuntu VPS.
I am experienced in selecting, configuring, and securing virtual private servers without making customers pay for capacity they do not need. As a working example, one £6-per-month Ubuntu VPS from a UK provider can run this Next.js and Magic UI website, the Encrypted Messenger iOS app's Node.js backend, and the local MySQL database together. I match the server to the project, prepare a tailored deployment command sheet, and explain the setup in plain English. Hosting requirements and provider charges vary with traffic, storage, backups, email, performance, and availability needs, so growing or business-critical systems may require more capacity.
- Cost-conscious VPS comparison, selection, and right-sizing
- One-server deployment for this Next.js site, mobile API, and local MySQL
- Ubuntu package and security update commands
- Node.js backends, MySQL databases, Next.js, and production builds
- PM2 process management and automatic restart setup
- Nginx reverse proxy, domain, SSL, and validation guidance
✓ Ubuntu packages updated✓ Next.js production build completed✓ PM2 process saved for automatic restart✓ Nginx configuration validated and reloadedEngineer
Software engineering for digital products
I build useful web and mobile products with modern JavaScript, strong database foundations, and AI-assisted workflows that improve delivery speed without replacing professional engineering oversight.
Frontend engineering
Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, animation, responsive UI, and production-ready component structure.
Backend and data
Node.js APIs, MySQL schema design, Stripe webhooks, email automation, and secure environment configuration.
AI-assisted delivery
ChatGPT Codex accelerates planning, coding, review, debugging, testing, and documentation while I remain responsible for engineering decisions and delivery.
Clear technical communication
I explain architecture, security, databases, deployment, and trade-offs clearly to non-technical customers, developers, and IT professionals.
Next.jsReactNode.jsReact NativeTypeScriptMySQLPayment gatewaysStripe integration experienceSMTP and custom-domain emailMagic UITailwind CSSChatGPT CodexAPI designDigital products
Next.jsReactNode.jsReact NativeTypeScriptMySQLPayment gatewaysStripe integration experienceSMTP and custom-domain emailMagic UITailwind CSSChatGPT CodexAPI designDigital products
Next.jsReactNode.jsReact NativeTypeScriptMySQLPayment gatewaysStripe integration experienceSMTP and custom-domain emailMagic UITailwind CSSChatGPT CodexAPI designDigital products
Next.jsReactNode.jsReact NativeTypeScriptMySQLPayment gatewaysStripe integration experienceSMTP and custom-domain emailMagic UITailwind CSSChatGPT CodexAPI designDigital products