Hi, I'm Chris.
I build websites and apps from my desk in Quorn, a village just north of Loughborough.
I build websites and apps from my desk in Quorn, a village just north of Loughborough.
I run Midlands Code Lab. Every project I take on, I do the lot myself: design, build, copy, launch. No agency in the background, no account manager, no being passed between people who haven't read your email.
For the last 10 years I've worked in the software industry. Most of what I did was listen, to customers, to support tickets, to demos that didn't land and demos that did. After enough of that you start to know what good software actually does for a business, versus what it just promises in the sales deck.
I live in Quorn with my partner Caroline and our cat Izzy. Most weekends we walk out to one of the nearby villages, find a cafe or pub we haven't tried, and spend our money there. Those small businesses are why this corner of Leicestershire is worth living in. Building good websites for the people running them, instead of watching that work get handed to a faceless agency two cities over, is partly why I started Midlands Code Lab.
Direct contact, fixed price, the code stays in your name. No hand-offs, no surprises on launch day.
A lot of my time off goes into walks with my daughter when she's over, who at nine is the age where she'll grab the map herself and march us off to whichever village looks good for lunch. Izzy the cat stays home, presumably judging the choice.
The rest goes into making music. That spilled into SetPrep, a Mac app I built for DJs to plan their sets faster. The DJs in my life kept doing prep work by hand for hours, and I figured someone should build a proper tool.
Half an hour, on a video link, no sales pitch attached.