2016 - 2020

Clickandrap
The marketplace where I learned to build web applications
I founded, designed and ran a two-sided marketplace with storefronts, search, seller dashboards, digital licensing and checkout. I hired developers for the first version, then learned to build it myself, rebuilding the front end in Vue.js with a friend handling the Django back end, while running the business day to day: recruiting and onboarding sellers, pricing and licensing, Stripe and PayPal payments and customer support. It's the project that turned me into a developer.
Where I learnt to build
That codebase is what taught me to build. HTML and CSS properly first, then JavaScript and Vue on the front end, while learning enough Django and Postgres to work closely with the friend handling the back end. Every product I have shipped since starts from what I picked up here.
Front end
- HTML
- CSS & SASS
- JavaScript
- Vue.js