Projects
Things I've built, from challenge to result
A selection of real work: what needed solving and how I approached it.
Riesgo Vivienda: is your home in a flood zone?
Spain's official flood maps are public, but reading them takes a viewer built for specialists. Here you just type the address.
After the 2024 Valencia floods, many people wanted to know whether their home was in a flood zone. The answer is public: Spain's Ministry for the Ecological Transition publishes the official maps. But they live in a viewer built for specialists, and someone about to buy or rent a flat can't read map layers or return periods.
Riesgo Vivienda is a product of my own. You type an address or a cadastral reference and a few seconds later you have the verdict, with the plot drawn on the map.
- The whole plot is assessed, not a single point: how much of it falls within the 10, 50, 100 and 500-year flood zones, checked against the official SNCZI maps.
- Alongside flooding, the municipality's seismic hazard from the National Geographic Institute, and the plot itself from the Spanish Cadastre.
- One page per municipality, 3,708 in total, so that someone searching for theirs on Google reaches the answer without going through the viewer.
Northard: a PPE inspection app
An inspection company closed every check back at the office. Now it is signed next to the equipment and the report reaches their client on its own.
My client inspects fall-protection equipment for other companies. The technical part happened next to the equipment; the paperwork did not. Checklist on paper, back to the office, type it up, produce the report, send it. Days went by between the inspection and the document reaching the end client, and nobody had a way to see which equipment was still safe.
Northard moves that paperwork onto the phone. The technician inspects where the equipment is, signs there, and the report goes out on its own.
- A checklist of its own per equipment type (harnesses, fall arresters, connectors, ropes) with three possible answers: Pass, Fail or N/A.
- The verdict is not an opinion, it is calculated: a single Fail brings down the whole inspection and sends the equipment out of service.
- A signed PDF report with photos, sent on completion. Each company logs in and sees, at a glance, what is about to expire.
PlusPartners: the website of a venture capital fund
A fund whose website changes every time it invests or hires. Built from scratch so they can publish it themselves.
PlusPartners invests in Spanish companies from pre-seed, and its website has to move with the fund: every investment joins the portfolio, every new hire joins the team. The landing page was built from scratch, with a content manager behind exactly those two things.
- Portfolio and team are edited by the fund itself, with no code and no dependency on anyone.
- A landing page focused on what a founder checks in thirty seconds: what they invest in and who is behind it.
- SEO worked into the structure, so they get found by search and not only by referral.
AledaTech: the consultancy I co-founded
Four product developers building the consultancy we would have wanted to hire.
AledaTech came out of putting together four developers from product teams who wanted to work on their own without losing that way of working. Hence the name: aleda is the first wax bees use to start building the hive.
- The closeness of an in-house team with the judgement of someone from outside. We embed in the team rather than deliver and disappear.
- Value over volume, collaboration over hierarchy, quality over speed.
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