A few things I've built, and the part of each that was actually hard.
Straight Path Athletics
A youth sports nonprofit in Howard County, Maryland — basketball and flag football for kids, run entirely by volunteers. No website, no registration, no brand when I started. I built all of it, and I was the only technical person on it.
Most of the work was making a no-code platform do what it resists: custom animations moved onto their own init hook because Duda fires page events too early, every class scoped so its embedded widgets stopped overriding my styles, and registration that flips to a waitlist the moment a team fills.
Synack Solutions
A Baltimore IT consulting firm, in business since 2005, that had gone twenty years with no real web presence. I built their first one — a 15-page responsive site covering all six of their service lines.
With that many hand-built pages and no framework, the hard part was consistency. I wrote a disciplined CSS architecture and held to it, so the site reads as one coherent thing instead of fifteen pages that drifted apart.
HKM Engineers
A civil engineering firm in Illinois — construction inspection and oversight — with no website at all. I designed and built one start to finish, from Figma mockups to a live Next.js deployment on Vercel, DNS included.
The blueprint visual language was a deliberate bet: an engineering firm's site should look like engineers made it, not a template. The real work was carrying that from a Figma concept into pixel-accurate, responsive Next.js without losing the intent.