Custom software for specific people

I build working systems for real businesses with messy workflows.

I turn notebooks, DMs, spreadsheets, order flows, booking chaos, scattered links, and manual follow-ups into software that runs: public pages, private admin tools, payments, email, data, hosting, and the boring parts that keep it alive.

Stripe Supabase Resend Shippo SwiftUI Vercel Heroku

Most of the people I work with already have demand. The problem is that the business still lives in their inbox, phone, group chat, spreadsheet, or memory. I build the system they wish already existed.

A work table with a laptop, notebooks, and planning material.
The brief usually starts as a real process, partial tools, and one person holding the system together.

Anonymous recent work

Real systems, running in production.

Creator commerce

Personalized product orders, from checkout to shipping.

Replaced an email, notebook, and peer-to-peer payment workflow with a public order page, Stripe checkout, approval queue, media uploads, customer emails, shipping labels, CMS controls, abandoned checkout recovery, and a metrics dashboard.

  • Public storefront plus private admin
  • Manual payment capture, rejection handling, and customer messaging
  • Next.js, Supabase, Stripe, Resend, Shippo, Vercel
Service operations

Booking software for a one-operator service business.

Turned pen-and-paper booking into a web dashboard and native iOS app with client history, payment status, pickup and dropoff logistics, map links, mileage tracking for taxes, image uploads, push reminders, and daily summaries.

  • One admin, dozens of repeat clients
  • Web app, API, storage, push notifications, and TestFlight delivery
  • React, Express, Supabase, SwiftUI, APNs, Heroku
Niche community tools

A live game tracker for a group with its own rules.

Built a public leaderboard and admin panel around a custom scoring system, weekly rotation logic, league API sync, cron jobs, standings, tooltips, and live score refreshes.

  • One admin, 30 participants, fixed seasonal rules
  • External sports API sync every 15 minutes during game windows
  • Node.js, Express, Supabase, Heroku
Creator infrastructure

A digital home base for a performer with a scattered audience.

Built a landing page, event hub, press kit, character/troupe section, appearance links, and email capture flow so the audience has somewhere to go beyond social platforms.

  • Audience ownership, press readiness, and event discovery
  • Content stored in structured files for fast updates
  • Next.js, Tailwind, Resend-ready email capture, Vercel
Catalog and licensing

A publishing site for a long-running creative catalog.

Built a static site with catalog browsing, individual work pages, credits, lyrics, streaming links, licensing inquiry paths, SEO metadata, and a clean content model.

  • Public catalog, story, and licensing surface
  • No database or CMS where structured files are enough
  • Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Vercel

What I build

Software that matches the way the work actually happens.

Public surface plus private admin

Landing pages, order forms, catalogs, dashboards, CMS controls, approval queues, uploads, and status workflows.

Payments, fulfillment, and email

Stripe checkout, manual capture, webhooks, transactional email, shipping labels, tracking, print-on-demand, and recovery flows.

Operator dashboards

Booking boards, client history, reporting, exports, reminders, queue management, and the screens people use every day.

Rules and integrations

Custom scoring logic, cron jobs, third-party APIs, address validation, mileage calculations, push notifications, and sync jobs.

Ways to work

Flat scope first. Then build only what should exist.

Setup + Operator Retainer

For problems better solved with the right SaaS. I set it up, configure it around the real workflow, review the data, and stay on for 3-6 months so it does not die from neglect.

from $750 + $250/mo

Small Fixed Tasks

For copy cleanup, one-off scripts, small automations, or making an existing spreadsheet, Notion setup, script, or prototype usable.

from $50-75 flat

How this works

No vague retainers. No performative discovery phase.

  1. 01

    You send the workflow, the mess, or the thing you wish stopped being manual.

  2. 02

    I map the job, name the smallest useful version, and tell you when off-the-shelf software is enough.

  3. 03

    We agree on fixed scope, flat price, handoff, hosting, and what happens after launch.

  4. 04

    I build, deploy, document, and hand over a system you own.

Start here

Send me the workflow you want off your plate.

One paragraph is enough. Tell me what happens today, what keeps slipping, and what finished would look like.

Email ryanfox.eth@gmail.com
Location

Harleysville, PA