SMITHBUILT — N°.01
Digital solutions, crafted by experience.
Thoughtful websites and digital tools. Shaped by decades of curiosity, creativity, and real-world experience. Built for the modern web.
- Forty years building things
- One craftsman, end to end
- Direct contact, real timelines
N°.02 — ABOUT
From a Commodore 64 to code in Doha.
- 1980sFirst home computers — VIC-20, Commodore 64. Discovery and play.
- 1990sFine dining and culinary school. Kitchens across Canada.
- 2000Founded an adventure-tourism marketing company in the Canadian Rockies. Built realbigadventures.com during the dotcom era.
- 2000sTrained in kitchens in Thailand, Malaysia, the Middle East.
- 2010sThirteen years in offshore oil & gas — running catering and accommodation for some of the world's largest operations.
- NowIn Doha. Back to building software, with the discipline picked up along the way.
N°.03 — RECENT WORK
A few projects.
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2026
Chisel Peak Woodworking
Portfolio & lead generation for a one-man woodworking shop in Muskoka, Ontario.
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2026 · in dev
Throbix
A calm, private migraine journal — designed for people who can't look at a bright screen.
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2026
Smitheats
A family recipe site — testing ground for a larger network of regional eats sites.
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2002 · preserved
Real Big Adventures
My first commercial site — adventure tourism in the Rockies. Salvaged from the Wayback Machine, kept online as an artifact.
visit site →
N°.04 — WHAT I BUILD
Websites, web apps, and the occasional medical project.
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Custom websites
For businesses that need a real one, not a template. Designed and coded by hand.
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Web applications
When a website isn't enough — internal tools, dashboards, scheduling, anything bespoke.
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E-commerce
Stripe, Shopify, custom carts. The right tool for what you actually sell.
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Maintenance & support
Keep what you have running. I'll take over from your last developer.
N°.05 — GET IN TOUCH
Have a project in mind?
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