What-to-wear app: reads tomorrow's hour-by-hour forecast for your street and tells you what to wear, twice a day. iOS + Android, widget, subscriptions.
Hard part: store submission, push, widgets, in-app subscriptions on two platforms.
Ian Bell · Senior developer · Kenilworth, UK
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Got an idea, or a half-finished app? I'll ship it
Web · Mobile · Dashboards · Automation · Hosting
25 years building software for banks, pharma, policing and small businesses. Web apps, mobile apps, dashboards, automation, hosting. Delivered in days and weeks, not quarters.
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No retainer, no procurement, no 100-page proposal.
Worked with
HBOS · Boots · AstraZeneca · Diageo · National Grid · College of Policing · Barclays · Sage · Eversheds · Lloyds TSB
Banks, pharma, policing, energy, law. The places where the hard 10% lives.
The work
Recent builds: what each one is, who it's for, how long it took, and the hard part.
A survival game you play in ten minutes a day, set in your own real town, built from real map data. Plays in the browser on your phone.
Hard part: real map data, daily turn processing, email delivery.
A party game for 4 to 6 friends, played on a TV and their phones. Nothing to install.
Hard part: real-time rooms, phones join by code, running costs capped.
Two field apps for a Middle East security company, built around how they already work.
Hard part: works offline, SOS with SMS fallback, fits an existing workflow.
Research, writing and publishing platform for the same company's monthly country reports.
Hard part: browser capture tool, Arabic print-quality PDFs, passwordless sign-in.
Secure, scalable platform and APIs for the same company.
Hard part: secure hosting, GPU servers, search.
In-house app and public website for a UK awarding organisation: centres, trainers, qualifications. Plus automation of their admin.
Hard part: multi-role system, integrations.
Internal platform for a paper-based insurer: online application forms, staff console, nightly Zoho to Xero invoicing.
Hard part: Zoho and Xero integration, forms, moving off paper.
A gym log for one person: log a set in two taps, and it suggests your next weight.
Hard part: works fully offline, encrypted backup.
The last 10%
The first 90% is easy now. The last 10% isn't.
Anyone can get a prototype running in an afternoon. Then it hits the real world: App Store rejections, sign-in that breaks, data that won't sync, a server that falls over on launch day, an integration nobody documented. That's where projects stall, and that's the bit I've spent 25 years doing.
Finish it
Take it from "nearly" to live.
Build it
Idea to app, backend and hosting.
Fix it
Slow, fragile, untouchable → solid.
About
One developer. 25 years. Your idea, working.
I'm Ian. I've spent 25 years building software for banks, pharma, policing, energy and law, and for small businesses that just need the thing to work.
I ship complete products, not demos: the app, the backend and the hosting, plus the store listing, the subscriptions and the privacy policy. You deal with the person writing the code.
How it works
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Tell me the idea
The form below. Two minutes.
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I quote it
Price and date within 24 hours.
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I build it
You see progress every few days, and it lands on the agreed date.
Three promises
- A quote within 24 hours
- Tell me the idea. You get a price and a timeframe within 24 hours on working days.
- A date before I start
- You know when it lands before you pay a penny.
- Fixed price, agreed up front
- Milestones, not hours. No surprises.
Based in Kenilworth. Happy to meet anywhere in Coventry and Warwickshire, travel further, or talk on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.
Get in touch
Tell me your idea
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Rather email? hello@ianbell.dev