high5.dev is my independent practice. I work with organizations that have something specific they need built and no appetite for a six-month discovery phase before anyone writes code.
Most of what I take on looks like Tour of Madison — a real operational problem that a spreadsheet stopped being able to hold. Hundreds of people, a hard deadline, and a hundred small details that all have to line up on the day. Those are the projects I like most, because it's obvious when they work.
An app store listing is a distribution choice, not a quality one. Plenty of the best software I've built never asked anyone to install anything — it opened in a browser tab and worked. I'll recommend whichever front door actually fits your audience, including the one that earns me a smaller invoice.
There's no account manager relaying your question to a developer and the answer back to you. That's the main reason I keep the client list short: it only works if I have the room to do it properly.
Documented, conventional, and free of clever tricks only I understand. If you ever need to bring the work in-house or hand it to someone else, that should be a decision you get to make — not a wall you hit.
Software decays quietly. I'd rather stay with a project and keep it healthy than hand over a zip file and wish you luck.
A first conversation is free and genuinely useful even if we don't end up working together — plenty of them end with me telling someone their idea needs less software than they thought. If it's a fit, I'll come back with a scope, a timeline, and a number, and you'll know what you're committing to before you commit to it.
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