About
Aventine is one person. When you hire me, I am the one who answers your messages, does the work, and writes the handover at the end of it.
How I work
I work alone and take on a small number of projects at a time. You deal with me directly from first message to handover. There is no account manager and no handoff between people, because there are no other people.
Quotes are fixed and in writing before work starts. If something turns out to be harder than I expected, that is my problem, not a change order. If you ask for something new mid-project, I quote it separately and you decide.
I explain things in plain language. If I cannot explain a technical choice in a way that makes sense to you, I take that as a sign the choice needs another look.
What I always do
I ask questions before I start.
It is worth an hour at the beginning to be sure that the thing in your head and the thing I am about to build are the same thing.
I send updates as I go.
You hear from me while the work is happening, with something to look at, rather than going quiet for a week and reappearing with a surprise.
If something breaks in the first 30 days after delivery I fix it.
Work I handed over that stops doing what I said it would do inside those 30 days is my responsibility, not a new job to quote for.
Why I build sites this way
Most small business sites are built on platforms that charge monthly and get slower as plugins pile up. The site works, but the owner rents it. Cancel the subscription or lose the developer, and the site is effectively gone.
Static sites flip that. The whole site is a folder of files you own. Hosting them is free because serving ready-made files is cheap. They are fast because there is nothing to compute per visit. And because the content is plain text, you can read and change it yourself.
None of this is exotic. It is how a lot of the modern web is built. Small businesses just rarely get offered it, because a site the client can maintain is a site the developer cannot bill maintenance on. I would rather be hired for new work than for hostage-taking.
What working with me is like
- You see the work in progress, at a preview address when there is a site to look at, not at a big reveal.
- You own every account: the domain, the hosting, the code, and the contact form.
- You get a written handover for whatever I built, and you can always ask me questions afterwards.
What I build with
Most of this site avoids tool names, because the tools are my problem and the result is yours. If you want the list anyway, here it is.
- JavaScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node
- Python
- Astro
- Tailwind
- WordPress
- Shopify
The last two may look odd next to everything I have written about slow, plugin-heavy websites. What I argue against is bloated builds, and owners locked out of their own sites, not any platform by name. Plenty of businesses are already on WordPress or Shopify and have good reasons to stay there, especially a shop with a working checkout. If that is you, meeting you where you are and making what you have faster beats selling you a rebuild you did not need.
See if I am the right fit.
The fastest way to find out is to send me the thing you are stuck with. I will reply with an honest read on whether the work is worth your money.