How I work, in seven steps

I build client work the way I ship my own products: small, fast and in the open. It starts with one clear problem and the people who have it, and you get a live link early. Here are the seven steps.

Before any code, I pin down the problem, who has it and what a win looks like. Every decision after that stays tied to the goal we set on day one.

I map the key screens and how you move between them. Moving a box on a sketch is much cheaper than rewriting a page.

Next.js and TypeScript, with auth, database, payments and AI wired end to end. The usual pieces are Clerk, Prisma or Convex, Stripe, and OpenAI or Anthropic. They change when the project needs it. SketchMason runs on Convex and bills through Polar.

Every push deploys to Vercel, so you click through real progress instead of looking at screenshots.

I check every screen on a phone, then tighten speed and edge cases.

I launch lean, with a waitlist or a first version in front of real users. For Quickly I shipped the waitlist site first to see if people wanted it. Then I watch how people use it and add only what matters. Shipping early also means being honest about what isn't done. ChronoSeek's playground says plainly that it's a simulation.

Never give up. The next version is always better.