Sites I've built.
These are platforms I designed, built and run myself. Not client case studies and not mock-ups — working systems with accounts, data, search and content behind them. They are here because advice is cheap and shipping is not: the same hands that build these build the systems I hand over to clients.
HGV-Parking.co.uk
LiveA UK-wide marketplace for secure lorry parking and yard space. Drivers and transport managers find space near the routes they actually run; anyone sitting on an empty yard, hardstanding or spare bay lists it and earns from ground that was making nothing. It covers lorries, wagons, trailers and plant.
Operators lose hours and goodwill hunting for somewhere safe to drop a trailer, and the independent sites that solve it have no shop window. This puts both sides in one place. It is free to use for the first twelve months and funded by advertising rather than commission, so a small yard is not penalised for joining early.
- Yard listings with location, facilities and photos
- Search by route, region and what you need to park
- A “parking wanted” board, so demand is visible before supply exists
- Owner accounts and a dashboard for managing listings
- An advertising offer in place of per-booking fees
- A blog covering what actually affects UK hauliers
Built from nothing: the design, the front end, the database, the accounts and sign-in, the listing and search logic, the email, the hosting and the content. The hard part was never the code. It was deciding what to leave out so a yard owner with a phone and five minutes could get a listing up.
Marque Vellum
Invitation only · pre-launchA private members' platform for car owners. Members keep a garage of the cars they own, share photos and video of them, list one for sale when the time comes, and message each other directly. There is no public sign-up, no member list and no search for people — you are introduced, or you are not in.
Owners of interesting cars have nowhere sensible to talk to each other. The open forums are indexed by search engines, the social platforms want the registration plate in frame and the data sold on, and neither is somewhere you post the chassis number of something valuable. So the restraint is the product: cars are private by default and a member chooses, car by car, whether to share one with The Circle.
- Invitation and approval flow, with confirmed requests deleted if unused
- Per-car privacy — nothing is shared until the owner shares it
- Registration and chassis numbers held but never shown to other members
- Location and camera data stripped from photos and video on upload
- No telephone numbers held, and the form rejects them
- No analytics, advertising or tracking of any kind
The link above opens a members' door, which is the point — there is nothing public to show and there is not meant to be. Invitations have not gone out yet, so treat it as built and waiting rather than running.
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