Shydore · independent web developer 
From a simple idea to a fully engineered digital experience. Designed and built by someone who cares — and who's always there to help.
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Selected work
Every one of these came out of my own archive — website and business projects I built for myself at some point in my life.
Studio site · you are here
The first example is the page you're on: one hand-written page, zero frameworks, zero libraries, at 60fps. Every technique on it is available for yours.
E-commerce storefrontlive
The store that got me off my feet, and the one thing here that is not a concept — it takes orders today. I run the business behind it, so I know what a site is actually for: sales, not decoration.
And five more, from the archive
The internet runs on niche identity — everyone signalling exactly who they are. I wanted to build the absence of that. A landing page for an account that says nothing about itself: it sits under a near-opaque veil, and a soft field of visibility trails the cursor, so you search the page rather than read it. Minimal art, deliberate mystery.
I set out to open a burger van and ended up spending far more time on the website and the brand than on the burgers. One idea carries it: the bottom of the hero tears off and climbs over the burger as a till receipt, and the receipt is the menu — items, prices and a torn-off stub at the end. The menu on it is editable: a real CMS is wired into the receipt, so anyone who likes the design can open the editor and put their own menu on it.
A friend needed a website for their cleaning company, so I built the concept. They took it, rebranded and moved on elsewhere — I still wonder how they're getting on. What they had was two brands that didn't talk to each other: a hot-pink logo, and a folder of retro illustrations nobody had built a site around. The palette comes out of the artwork; the pink survives as the colour every button is.
This one was me chasing a good-looking site for its own sake — a gothic streetwear concept, because coming up with brand ideas is the part I genuinely love. It arrived as a logo, a folder of artwork and not one product photograph, so the shirts are drawn in SVG — three colourways, fold lines, the real logo files dropped in as the chest prints.
A brand idea that started with a name I liked the sound of: plushies sold in sets of four, like a merch drop. It had to look hand-made rather than templated, so every panel is drawn twice, the second outline offset like a sticker that missed. The four characters are SVG, not photographs, and hovering one repaints the page's border in its colour.
Everything I build starts the same way: a rough idea in someone's head. Bring me yours.
Pricing
Every build starts the same way. After that you pick the monthly that matches what the site actually has to do.
Essentials
£14.99/month
For trades, small businesses and anyone who needs to look serious and be found.
Commerce
£24.99/month
Everything in Essentials, plus a real shop and your own login to manage it.
Built on Medusa · open-source commerce
Start a projectNo surprise invoices. You get an honest scope and a clear quote from me — the person doing the work — before anything is paid. *Domains are subject to availability; premium names can cost more and I'll tell you first.
Start a project
Tell me what you're imagining — rough is fine, technical terms optional. I read every brief myself and I'll come back with questions, thoughts and an honest take on the best way to build it. No sales team, no hand-offs — you're talking to the person who'll actually build it.
Fill in the brief and it comes straight to me.