Osun State, Nigeria

Adedayo Sikiru Olatunji. One person, and that is the point.

You deal with whoever is building it. There is no account manager between the question and the answer, which is why the answers on this site are specific.

I work in solar, and I write software.

The two halves are not separate. I design and install photovoltaic systems, and the estimating tool on the work page exists because I needed it myself — to size a system properly, price it honestly, and hand the customer a document that stands up when they take it to somebody else for a second opinion.

That is an unusual way round. Most software for a trade is written by people who have never done the trade, and you can tell: it asks for numbers nobody has and produces answers nobody can defend. Mine will not issue a quote for a design that does not meet electrical code, because I know what it costs to be the person holding that quote on site.

The websites came from the same place. A small business with good work and nothing to send people is losing customers to somebody worse who has a link.

How I would rather work

  • A fixed price, before anything starts

    Written down. Not an hourly rate that grows while you watch.

  • Told early when something is wrong

    On the day I find out, not on the day it was due.

  • The files are yours at handover

    No monthly fee to keep your own website online.

  • I will talk you out of it if it is wrong

    Sometimes the answer is photographs, not a developer.

No point being coy

The thing you are wondering.

“How much of this is client work?”

Two of the sites on the work page were built for somebody else and are live today — a furniture workshop and a fashion studio. The rest are my own products, and I say so on each one rather than letting six entries imply six clients. Alongside that there is the solar installation work, which is the trade I actually came from and the reason the calculator and the template know what an installer needs.

There are years of installation customers behind that and, for most of them, no record — no photograph taken at handover, nobody asked for a line about the job. That changes from here: every project is documented and every customer is asked, and what they say will appear on this site in their own words.

Ask me something specific.

The fastest way to find out whether I am any good is to send me a hard question about your own business and see what comes back.

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