// For small businesses and sole traders · London
Carlos Natera
I build the software your business actually runs on.
For sole traders, small businesses, and people just starting out. When the work has outgrown WhatsApp, spreadsheets, or a generic app, I build the website or the app that fits.
- / Websites and web apps
- / iPhone and Android
- / Built around your work
- Sole tradersA practice, a studio, or a one-person business.
- Small businessesA team that needs a tool built around the work.
- Just startingThe product you need at the beginning, not a template.
// Selected
Work
The first line of each project is the part that had to be custom.
Small business
Rockmantic Weddings
Guests leave a message on a telephone. They do not need an app.
- Web
Rockmantic hires vintage telephones as audio guest books for weddings. The couple records a greeting. Guests pick up the handset and speak. There is no app for them to download.
The part that had to be built is the hire: two specific telephones, the dates the couple has it, the day it is posted back, and a reservation that does not ask them to create an account.
rockmanticweddings.com is live. Couples can read the story and reserve a telephone.
Press 1–6 to open a project.
// Method
How I work
From the way you work today to software you can run.
- 01 / 04
Learn the real work
How the day runs, who it is for, and where it currently leaks — WhatsApp, a spreadsheet, or a tool built for someone else.
- 02 / 04
Agree the rules
Who does what, and what done looks like, before the screens become the project.
- 03 / 04
Build it and ship it
A website, an iPhone app, an Android app — whatever the business needs. Something people use.
- 04 / 04
Stay until you can run it
I take a few projects at a time, so I can stay close until it is yours.
// About
About
- Based
- London
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Working
- Independent
- Pace
- A few projects at a time
// How I think
I start from the day as it is. Who does the job, what they use now, and where it breaks.
The software has to follow that. A tool built for a different business usually will not.
// What I take on
- WebA website or web app the business works in every day.
- PhonesAn iPhone or Android app, when the work is in people’s hands.
- One placeOne system for a job that is split across WhatsApp, spreadsheets, and a generic app.
That is the work behind OwlEstate, RealMama, Salto Vital, Rockmantic, and the apps I ship myself. I take a few at a time, and I stay until you can run it without me.
// Sofia
Sofia takes the brief.
You talk to her, not to me. She is my helper. She finds out what you want and what the work needs, scopes it, and sends that to me.
Sofia> I'm Sofia. I gather what you need so Carlos has the background before he talks with you, and that first conversation can stay on the work. Tell me everything in your own words. What you run, who it's for, what's in the way, and what you want made. As much as you know. If you don't know something, say you don't know. When you feel you've given enough, say so and I'll write it up.
