Building your SaaS idea from the ground up 🚀
I’ve brought complex SaaS products to life for my clients — and I’m ready to do the same for you. With a holistic approach to development, each step is intentional and thoughtful, keeping your business goals front-and-center.
“Brendan stepped into an existing project and quickly brought insight and recommendations that turned the UI around for the best. Brendan willing took on tasks outside the scope of the frontend. He assisted in writing API calls, implementing third-party services, and backend suggestions. He was very insightful with content and marketing as well. Very professional to work with and certainly a go-getter. I highly recommend him at the highest level.
Brendan became our Full-Stack Developer, taking over the app front end then the back end, achieving a beta-ready application for our consumer platform.”
Shawn T.CEO @ Bee Portfolio
My approach
Critical thinking for today — and tomorrow.
Rather than simply carrying out tasks, I consider technical problems from many angles. This helps the project not only meet immediate goals, such as creating a working feature, but also managing data usage and scalability into the future, translating into stability and cost savings.
As one client told me, “You’re not all 1’s and 0’s.” He explained how my forethought and attention to detail for his business were rare qualities when finding a developer. This critical thinking and mindfulness mean that I can help guide you and strategize with you — over the short-term and the long-term.
My Core Focuses
• Front-End App Development
• Back-End App Development
• Business Website Design & Development
Your project
Thorough exploration, planning & follow-through
Every project starts with gaining a thorough understanding of your goals, both in terms of business and technology.
- Roadmap.
- What are the key milestones, and how do we get there?
- Scaling concerns.
- How many users do you anticipate, and how quickly do you expect to gain them?
- Prioritization.
- Which features take priority, and how feasible are they to implement with the technology & tools currently available?
- Planning ahead.
- What potential roadblocks can we already see, and how can we remove them as soon as possible?
Tech stack
Modern & reliable
Ensuring all tech is modern and reliable, my apps provide the best of both worlds. Your app’s stack is carefully chosen to be stable and up to date. Of course, I customize the tech to what your unique project requires — including tools and servives beyond what's listed here.
Front end
Client/Browser-side development
- Vue 3 / Nuxt 3 / Typescript / Tailwind CSS
- Progressive web app (PWA)
- Netlify hosting
- Front-end cache (indexedDB)
- Sentry
- Google Tag Manager
Back end
Server-side development
- Typescript / Node.js / Express
- MongoDB (+ advanced aggregation)
- Microservices architecture
- Google Cloud
• Cloud Build CD
• Cloud Run / Cloud Run Jobs
• Memorystore (Redis)
• PubSub
• VPC network for Cloud Run static IP
• IAM / Service account management - Sendgrid email
- Slack integration
Security
Keeping your app safe and reliable
- Advanced JWT flow
- Refresh token rotation & automatic reuse detection
- XSS attacks
- Sanitization
- CSP Directives
- Third-party asset integrity
- CSRF prevention
- Clickjacking prevention
- Man-in-the-middle attack prevention
Design
Clean, modern interfaces
Another way that I go beyond 1’s and 0’s is with design. I focus on modern, strategic, and clean layouts and aesthetics, bringing Tailwind UI into play for any website or app.
Quick to implement
To save you time and money, I lean on the professional Tailwind designs – so we can focus more on building features.
Tailored to your goals
Working from the basis of their expertly designed templates, I can rapidly customize the design to precisely what you need.
Versatile range of designs
Whether we’re tackling an app, its marketing website, or an eCommerce platform, Tailwind offers every foundational section design.
Go from a PWA to a native app
Every project is built as a progressive web app (PWA), so users can save your browser-based app as an easy-to-access icon on their home screen. Now, thanks to recent advances, I can now convert a PWA into native iOS and Android apps with minimal time and effort. This means your app has the potential to gain exposure in app stores — and thus expand your audience.
Featured projects
See my design & development in action
Please take a few minutes to watch the featured projects’ walkthrough videos. As you’ll see between those two examples in particular, I’m very comfortable working across different industries, quickly learning the key concepts and relevant details, such that I can provide the best technical solutions to the problems your industry faces.
Featured app
Bee Portfolio app
This long-term, highly complex B2C fintech project consisted of multiple APIs and third-party integrations. The best example is how I integrated a third-party financial service for connecting bank accounts. In terms of both functionality and scaling, the integration posed unique challenges that were rewarding to overcome.
Other important aspects of this project included scaling databases, backend caching for performance, security, a custom admin panel, in-app + email notifications, and scheduled jobs. For example, Cloud Run jobs were necessary to refresh users’ investment account data multiple times a day. This ensured fresh data was retrieved at least once daily, even with possible financial provider rejections.
After joining the project with the smaller scope of limited front-end work, my role grew to creating and managing the entire front end. As you can see in my Completed Jobs, that initial contract was renewed for this continued work.
Then, I evolved into the full-stack developer role, and the sole developer on this project, as it proved necessary to re-architect the back end from scratch. In this expanded role, I created a scalable, fully featured SaaS product that is now open to the public for beta use.
Bringing this app’s features to life was gratifying, especially considering how much value it can provide to the general investor!
Here’s some feedback from the client:
“Brendan stepped into an existing project and quickly brought insight and recommendations that turned the UI around for the best. Brendan willingly took on tasks outside the scope of the frontend. He assisted in writing API calls, implementing third-party services, and backend suggestions. He was very insightful with content and marketing as well. Very professional to work with and certainly a go-getter. I highly recommend him at the highest level.”
Check out the Bee Portfolio app via the walkthrough video here, and you’ll see the stack below in action.
Featured website
Bee Portfolio website
My work with Bee Portfolio kicked off with finishing the homepage and a few features, and grew to building a fresh public-facing website from scratch. Additionally, I became the project’s full-stack (and sole) developer.
Thanks to static hosting, the website loads quickly for a great user experience. Both this responsive website and app UI are built with Tailwind UI, such that I simply fine-tune the design aesthetics. The results always look modern, properly proportioned, and professional.
The blog platform — or CMS — is seamlessly integrated into the site, with a custom index page I designed to suit the client’s needs. And, with the help of a freelance copywriter’s brand strategy and SEO, the whole website has a very polished look and feel.
To create this responsive marketing website, I used Vue 2, Typescript, Nuxt 2, and Tailwind UI and employed Netlify static hosting.
Featured app
Wedding Day Timeline app
By single-handedly designing and developing this wedding-day planning tool, I helped my client solve a prevalent industry problem that had long been on his mind. With the right logic and framework, users could easily generate a realistic timeline for their big day.
I made Wedding Day Timeline as a progressive web app (PWA) that generates an automated timeline — without the user calculating the itinerary themselves. The time estimates were relatively intricate, even automatically calculating driving times between the day’s locations.
Complex date-and-time challenges defined the main feature of this SaaS project — that is, a stable scheduling system, which even allowed the user to edit their events anytime before their wedding day. Then, the app would regenerate the itinerary and estimated driving times.
To keep everyone on the same page — from family + vendors to the wedding party + planner — the user sends an automatically generated PDF of their timeline to specific contacts via text and email. Versions were kept track of, so everyone could stay on the same page without confusion. Important details were incorporated into the timeline, including the venue’s cut-off time, when clean-up would begin, and more.
The user is equipped with helpful options within the application, presented to them step by step for an approachable user experience. The range of predefined events included hair + makeup, dressing time, on- and off-site photoshoots (e.g., a first look), cocktail hour, ceremony, reception (which has its own dedicated sub-itinerary), and more. Users could also add custom events, such as yoga with their bridesmaids.
This project was very fulfilling, as my collaboration with the client tackled an undeniable issue within their industry — and provided an easy-to-use solution!
See the Wedding Day Timeline app via the walkthrough video here, which shows the stack below working together.