Joshua Makes · Hamilton, Ontario
Websites and apps that people actually enjoy using.
I’m a full-stack developer. I build Next.js sites for small businesses and Flutter apps for classrooms, and I look after them once they are live. I’m taking on new projects.
Ironwood Carpentry, a demo site for a general contractor / renovations. A renovation site that answers the first thing every homeowner wants to know — roughly what this will cost — before they pick up the phone. See how it works.
Sites for small businesses
All 7 →Working demos for made-up businesses, each built around what that trade’s customers need most. Open any of them and use it.
Electrical / HVAC / plumbing
Volt & Wire Co.
A trades site whose quote form never loses a customer quietly.
See how it works
Real estate / property management
Oak & Key Property Group
Listings laid out like an agent’s own listing sheet — every figure a buyer compares, in one place.
See how it works
Healthcare / professional services
Cadence Health Advisors
A consultancy site that shows its work — measured results, charted — instead of describing itself with adjectives.
See how it works
Apps I run myself
All apps →Mostly tools for teachers, starting with ones I made for my own classroom. The same stack as the client sites, with real people using it.
Next.js · Web
ClassCents
A classroom economy: students earn a salary, spend at the class store and save toward goals — money skills practised every day, not taught once from a worksheet.
See how it works
Flutter · Android, iOS
ClassTrack
A behaviour log for teachers that never leaves the phone: tap a student, log what happened, and see the pattern later.
See how it works
Next.js · Web
Groove Weaver
A music maker for kids: tap squares on one grid of rainbow notes and drums, press play, and hear the song loop.
See how it works
Next.js · Web
FoldNets
Pick a 3D shape and watch its paper net unfold beside it — ready to print, cut and fold.
See how it works
Also live: ClassVocab , LadderQuiz . And I design 3D prints for MakerWorld.
What I do
- Websites and web appsNext.js, TypeScript and Tailwind, hosted on Vercel.
- Accounts, payments and emailSupabase, Stripe and Resend, wired together properly.
- Headless buildsA fast front end on top of the CMS or store you already use.
- WordPressCustom themes and features that staff can edit without help.
- Interface and design systemsAccessible, mobile-first, with dark and light modes.
- After launchHosting, updates and fixes for $300 a month.
Have something you want built?
Tell me what you are trying to do and I will say what it needs, and what it does not.