James Hayes / Independent developer

Websites, apps and tools built around your business.

I’m James, the developer behind Hayes Consulting Group. I build websites, applications and practical tools that help businesses move forward.

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Job Near Me

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Job Near Me public homepage, with job search and candidate profile previews

01 / Selected work

Different projects. The same attention to detail.

Websites, applications and tools, shaped around the people who use them.

  • Job Near Me

    Job Near Me

    Recruitment and hiring workflows

    Live

    A recruitment platform joining local job discovery and career preparation with employer hiring, interviews and integration tools.

  • SocialPops Videos

    SocialPops Videos

    Personalised video campaigns

    Live

    A personalised-video campaign platform combining recipient imports, visual editing, individual renders and engagement reporting.

  • All Media Works

    All Media Works

    Event media commerce and delivery

    Live

    An event media platform connecting physical orders, online payments and a customer video library.

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02 / How I can help

Good technology. Useful outcomes.

01

WordPress development

A website your team can make their own. Bespoke themes, editable pages and functionality that fits.

02

Web applications

Turn a business process into a useful application, from an internal tool to a customer platform.

03

Mobile applications

Bring a focused, useful experience to the devices your customers use every day.

04

API integrations

Connect the services you rely on and reduce the work of moving information between them.

05

Technical support

Keep an existing website or application working well, and give its next improvement a clear direction.

03 / From interface to infrastructure

The whole picture, down to the details.

Made for people

Clear interfaces, editable content and thoughtful interactions. The parts people see deserve the same care as the code beneath them.

Websites & content ↗

Built to work together

Applications, integrations and the supporting tools that turn separate tasks into a connected workflow.

Applications & integrations ↗

04 / The person behind the code

A direct partnership, from first idea to launch

I’m James Hayes. Hayes Consulting Group is where I bring together my work on websites, applications and developer tools.

Good work starts with understanding what you need. We’ll talk through the problem, make the important decisions together, and build towards something useful.

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05 / How we’ll work

A clear path from idea to launch.

01

Understand

Start with the business, the people and the problem. Agree what a useful outcome looks like.

02

Design

Map the experience and make the important decisions before committing to the build.

03

Build

Develop in considered steps, with space to review the work and refine the details.

04

Launch & support

Prepare for release, hand over with clarity and plan what comes next.

Have something in mind?

Let’s build something useful.

A new idea, a complicated challenge or a better way of doing things. Tell me what you’re working on.