I design the interface
and build the system
underneath it.

A district with eight schools and no way for any of them to change their own pages. I had started there at sixteen, still a student in the district. So I built a form: the school secretary filled in the principal's name, the phone number, the start and end times as radio buttons holding the three real answers, and it wrote the page back out. Two weeks start to finish. It cost nothing. Then I ran a session every month for any teacher who wanted to come, which is where the design actually got tested, because you find out very quickly which label is wrong when you are watching eight people fail at the same field.

Rewritten in ASP.NET about three weeks after I came back to the district. It opened on a screen the first version never needed: Choose a site below to begin your editing session. One login across many sites, each showing when it was last updated, with a preview step before publishing. That is the version that outlived the school district. Through my freelance years the same bones got re-skinned client after client.

The first one that shipped to somebody who was not a school. It went live on 22 December 2006, managing thirty pages of a national car rental company's public website. I know the exact date because the software recorded it itself, and those rows are still in the database twenty years later.

Not a website. A reusable application shell (login, session security, a status and error library, roles, chrome) with per-client feature modules dropped into it. The proof it was a platform rather than a one-off is mechanical: across two completely unrelated deployments those shell files are byte-identical. The same codebase ran a rental brand's customer complaint system and a sweepstakes back office.

The productized one. It had a name in the browser title bar, two logotypes I drew, a version number printed in the chrome, and five releases. Around twenty client sites over six years, white-labeled so the client's logo sat at the top and mine went in the footer. The admin files are byte-identical across unrelated clients, which is what makes it a product with a deployment procedure rather than a folder I copied around.

One wheel record becomes a finished eBay and WooCommerce listing in minutes instead of hours. It has run the business for fourteen years, and a second retailer licensed it and ran it as a paying customer on their own tenancy. Same conviction as the school form in 2002, aimed at a harder problem.

AllOEMRims is winding down. The store is still online while it does. The conviction is not.