Ian Bell · Senior developer · Kenilworth, UK
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.
Show me the work Tell me your idea
Quote within 24 hours. No retainer, no procurement, no 100-page proposal.
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.
Take it from "nearly" to live.
Idea to app, backend and hosting.
Slow, fragile, untouchable → solid.
Tell me the idea. You get a price and a timeframe within 24 hours on working days.
You know when it lands before you pay a penny.
Milestones, not hours. No surprises.
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.
Recent builds: what each one is, who it's for, how long it took, and the hard part.
In store review
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.
35 days to beta
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.
14 days to beta
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.
Under two weeks, then two days
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.
144 days to live
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.
Ongoing since 2021
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.
44 days to live
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.
7 days
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 form below. Two minutes.
Price and date within 24 hours.
You see progress every few days, and it lands on the agreed date.
Based in Kenilworth. Happy to meet anywhere in Coventry and Warwickshire, travel further, or talk on Zoom, Google Meet or Teams.