Selected work · 2023 → today
Three projects.
Worth a proper look.
A small careful list of work I've genuinely shipped, from a family-run Lake District guesthouse to substantial Python systems running real businesses.
Hawcliffe House —
a guesthouse, online.
A family-run B&B in Keswick needed a website that looked as warm as the place itself, and that guests could actually use to book a room without faff.
- Client
- Hawcliffe House, Keswick
- Scope
- Full guesthouse website design & build
- Live at
- hawcliffehouse.co.uk →
- Built with
- HTML · CSS · JavaScript
Hawcliffe House is the kind of B&B people come back to year after year. The brief was simple: build a site that feels like the place warm, welcoming, well-kept and that makes it easy for new guests to find them, see the rooms, and get in touch.
I built and designed a clean, fast site that puts the rooms, the location and the contact details where they should be front and centre. No bloat, no pop-ups, no cookie-banner war. Just a website that works on a phone in the car park of the Lake District, which is exactly when guests are looking for it.
You can see the finished site at hawcliffehouse.co.uk →
Genesis Home Appliances —
priced sharp, sold fast.
A growing white-goods retailer needed to price competitively without trawling rivals by hand, and to sell faster on the shop floor with a system built around how their staff actually work.
- Client
- Genesis Home Appliances
- Scope
- Pricing engine · in-store sales site · POS device
- Built with
- Python · web scraping · custom POS hardware integration
- Outcome
- Sharper pricing, faster sales floor
Genesis is a growing white-goods retailer running serious volume. Two problems were eating into the business: pricing competitively across hundreds of SKUs meant somebody manually checking competitor sites every day, and the shop-floor sales process was slow because the systems they had didn't really suit how the team worked.
I built a pricing engine in Python that scrapes competitor listings on a schedule, compares them against Genesis's own catalogue, and surfaces the products that need a price change to stay competitive. What used to take half a person's morning now runs by itself overnight.
On top of that I built a custom internal sales website for staff to use in the showroom, paired with a POS device for easy sales floor usage. Same brand, same data, same prices coming straight from the pricing engine. Staff can quote, sell and take payment in one flow, with none of the off-the-shelf clutter.
The result was a great business outcome the kind you can point at on a P&L. Sharper pricing where it mattered, faster sales on the floor, and the team freed up to focus on the parts of the business that matter most.
White-goods ERP —
a full operations system.
An independent project no connection to Genesis. A self-built ERP for white-goods and appliance businesses, covering sales, stock, route planning, a driver app and reporting. SAP-class feature set, sized for SMBs.
- Project
- Self-initiated side project
- Modules
- Sales · Stock · Routes · Driver app · Reporting
- Comparable to
- SAP-class ERP, sized for SMBs
- Status
- Available to licence
- Product page
- See NextERP →
A complete ERP system I built independently of any client work, purpose-designed for white-goods and appliance businesses. Five modules sales, stock, route planning, a driver app and reporting all talking to each other so your business doesn't have to wrangle spreadsheets.
The full feature set is comparable to SAP, but priced and shaped for small and medium businesses rather than enterprises. Sales staff log orders, stock updates live, routes auto-build by postcode and load, and the driver app on the van syncs proof of delivery back to the office in real time.
For sale / licence
If you run an appliance, white-goods or similar logistics-led retail business and this sounds like what you've been trying to build out of spreadsheets the system is available to licence read more on the NextERP product page → or get in touch for a demo →
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Could be yours.
If you run a West Cumbrian business and need a website or some real software building I'd love to hear what you're up to.
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