Custom business management systems
The system that runs the business: clients, projects, estimates, invoices, scheduling, and reporting, with permissions your staff administer themselves after handoff. This is where the real value is.
Independent software partner
Software that runs the business, not just the website.
I build websites, but the real value is in the custom business management systems behind them: clients and projects, estimating and invoicing, scheduling, permissions, and reporting, built around how your team actually works.
Now booking select projects
- Best fit
- Business management systems and internal tools for organizations of any size
- Core stack
- Next.js, Postgres, Python, Vercel
- Engagement
- By project
Plain English scopebefore code
Production-mindedfrom day one
Organizations of any sizefive people or five hundred
Useful handoffafter launch
Selected work
Real systems, with organizations behind them.
I've shipped live SaaS products, civic and membership platforms, and the tdarby.com family of sites — including GrantCue, Volunteer Clinton County, the Rotary Club of Downtown Lock Haven, and WellStockd — alongside desktop apps and developer tools.
SaaS platform
GrantCue
A multi-tenant platform that ingests the federal Grants.gov catalog plus eleven state portals on a schedule, then layers AI discovery, fit-scoring, and proposal drafting over a full team pipeline.
- Scheduled ETL from 13 grant sources
- Postgres full-text + pgvector search
- AI scoring & proposal writing
- Stripe billing, RLS, virus scanning
Civic platform
Volunteer Clinton County
A civic platform I co-founded and developed, where local organizations post volunteer opportunities, events, and donation drives and residents sign up and log hours — on a hardened, security-first data model.
- Multi-tenant, dedicated Postgres schema
- Row-level security + DB-enforced workflow
- Org↔volunteer messaging + maps
- Volunteer clearances & hour verification
Membership website
Rotary Club of Downtown Lock Haven
A pro bono CMS-backed membership site I developed for the club — not a brochure. Officers manage content from a custom dashboard; members get gated downloads and event RSVPs; every public form is spam-protected.
- Payload CMS + PostgreSQL
- Custom Refine admin dashboard
- Member portal + gated downloads
- RSVPs, CMS forms, full SEO
Kitchen PWA
WellStockd
A touch-first recipe and fridge-inventory app that lives on a fridge-mounted tablet. Cook a recipe and the ingredients subtract themselves; run out of something and it lands on the shopping list.
- Inventory-aware "What can I make"
- Cook → auto-subtract → shopping list
- Weekly planner + cooking mode
- One-tap Walmart cart hand-off
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Services
The work I am best set up to own.
Nonprofit & civic tech
Volunteer platforms, membership sites, and grant tooling for nonprofits and civic groups. Three shipped systems, one co-founded and one pro bono.
Automation and data cleanup
Imports, exports, migrations, and the scripts that keep them running, so nobody is re-keying the same file every Monday. Same discipline that keeps GrantCue's grant catalog current across thirteen sources.
Websites and rebuilds
New sites and rebuilds for organizations of any size, by one senior developer on Next.js and Postgres. Most sites don't need a rebuild. I'll tell you if yours is one of them.
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Bring me the practical version.
Tell me what you're trying to build or improve, what's already in place (if anything), and any timeline you're working around — I'll reply with a clear next step.
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