Full-stack development
end-to-end web apps — frontend, backend, database, deployment. built by one person who owns the whole stack.
## what this is
I build the whole product, not just the part that looks good in a demo. frontend, backend, database schema, auth, deployment — one person, one codebase, no handoffs.
## why it matters
most freelance work splits across three people who've never talked to each other. a designer hands off a figma file, someone else builds an api that doesn't quite match it, and a third person glues it together right before launch. things break at the seams, usually the week after you stop paying attention.
when one person builds the whole stack, there are no seams. the UI decisions and the database schema come from the same head, so features ship faster and fewer things break in the gap between "frontend team" and "backend team."
## how I work
- schema first. before any UI gets touched, I map out what data exists, how it relates, and what changes over time. most bugs I've fixed in other people's code trace back to a schema that got designed after the UI, not before.
- vertical slices, not horizontal layers. instead of finishing all the frontend then starting the backend, I ship one feature end-to-end at a time. you see working software every few days.
- typescript, top to bottom. database types flow into API responses flow into components. if it compiles, most of the dumb bugs are already dead before you open the browser.
- deploy in week one. even rough. staging environments hide the problems that only show up once real traffic hits.
## stack
next.js, typescript, postgresql, drizzle orm, tailwind css, better auth. I lean on tools that are boring and proven over ones that are new and untested — the goal is something that still runs cleanly in three years.
## what you get
- a working app, not a folder of half-finished routes
- a schema you can query and understand a year from now, without me
- auth, payments, and deployment handled, not left as a "todo" for later
- a short writeup of the decisions I made and why, not just inline comments
## get in touch
tell me what you're building and what's currently broken or missing. I'll tell you straight if full-stack is the right call, or if you actually just need one piece fixed.
