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 carpark 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 —
software that pulled its weight.
A growing white-goods retailer needed business-critical software built around how they actually trade — not another off-the-shelf system they'd have to bend their business to fit.
- Client
- Genesis Home Appliances
- Scope
- Custom business-critical software
- Built with
- Python · custom integrations
- Outcome
- Real, measurable business results
Genesis is a growing white-goods retailer running serious volume. The problem was the usual one for a business at that stage: the off-the-shelf tools couldn't keep up, spreadsheets had multiplied, and the people running the place were spending too much time wrangling systems instead of selling appliances.
I built business-critical custom software in Python, designed around how Genesis actually operates day to day. Specific to their workflows, integrated where it needed to be, and replacing the bits of the operation where manual effort was costing real money.
The result was a great business outcome — the kind you can point at on a P&L. Faster operations, fewer mistakes, and the team freed up to focus on the parts of the business that matter most.
For clarity
Skiddaw Digital built the internal Python software for Genesis only — not their public website. And the ERP system below is a completely separate piece of work, unrelated to Genesis.
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
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. Get in touch for a demo →
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If you run a 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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