I'm Richard Whitney. From Scottsdale, Arizona, I build websites, APIs and web applications for clients -- and between those, I ship my own: a tiling desktop browser, a rich text editor, an AI content detector, an ad network. Most of my portfolio is software I wrote and still maintain. Click any of it.
No account managers, no hand-off to a junior. You get the person who writes the code.
One person quotes the work, writes it, deploys it and answers the phone afterwards. Nothing gets lost being relayed through an account manager, because there isn't one.
The editor in my admin panels, the ad rail on my sites, the SEO crawler I check my own pages with -- I wrote them and I run them in production every day. You are not the test case.
Front end through to the database and the box it runs on: Node and Express, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis, Stripe, real-time sockets, and desktop apps built on Chromium when the browser isn't enough.
I host and maintain most of what I build, which is why the work in my portfolio is still online years later rather than a screenshot of something that used to exist.
Three things, mostly. All of them have shipped more than once.
Brochure sites, storefronts, and the more awkward things in between -- a wholesale gemstone catalogue browsable by cut and colour, a recipe publication, two stock marketplaces that pay their contributors through Stripe. Built to order rather than bent out of a template, and light enough that most of them don't need a database.
Learn MoreIf you sell through retail partners, this is the one that pays for itself: an API that syncs your inventory automatically instead of somebody emailing spreadsheets. I've built the gemstone inventory API behind a wholesale catalogue, Stripe Connect payouts for two marketplaces, and an ad network that serves first-party so blockers don't strip it.
Learn MoreI host most of what I build, so "who do I call when it breaks" has a short answer. That includes the boring parts nobody quotes for: certificates, backups, mail deliverability, and the upgrade six months later that stops a dependency going stale.
Learn MoreEvery number here is verifiable from the portfolio -- each project links to the live site.
I'd rather show you working software than talk about methodology. Tell me what the thing needs to do, and I'll tell you honestly whether it's a weekend or a quarter, what I'd cut to get it live sooner, and where I think the hard part actually is.
That approach suits small and mid-sized businesses best. You get senior work at a rate that makes sense because there's no agency overhead priced into it -- no sales team, no project manager, no office. Just the build.
Launching a startup? We offer fast MVP development with fixed pricing--idea to working app in weeks, not months.
Call or write and you'll get me, not a form response. I'll tell you straight whether it's something I should build, something you can do yourself, or something that doesn't need building at all.