Small apps and large systems for businesses, built in Bungay, Suffolk.
Or the job that eats your week. We'll tell you what we would build, roughly what it would cost, and whether something off the shelf would do the job instead.
A first version is usually on a web address within days, with your own data in it, so you are judging the real thing, not a drawing of it.
Quoted in writing before we start. Once it is live we keep it running, backed up and patched, and you have someone to call.
Small: a program that reads three suppliers' price lists every morning. A rota that moves out of a WhatsApp group. A website form that files the enquiry instead of just emailing you.
Large: a till and stock system that runs a pub every day. A hiring platform, built end to end. Two web applications another developer had started, taken over and put right.
If a job is boring and you do it every week, it is probably a program. If nobody has built it yet, that is fine too.
A grain merchant was spending more than an hour a day reading market reports. Now a program reads them. Six hours a week back.
The till, stock and ordering system that runs our own pub, every day. We find the rough edges before a client does.
A hiring platform that replaces CV screening with conversation, built from the database to the screen.
Colin Squire asked for a website on each of several hundred domains. The first 48, with all the DNS, took a morning. There are 389 now.
Needed an online shop, not custom software. We put them on Shopify and said so. Two thousand customers later it still runs.
We wanted to update our website and focus on an easier, more adaptable e-commerce setup. James listened to what we needed, was upfront about costs, and was flexible enough to come into the office out of hours to get us set up. You will not find anyone as responsive, reliable and flexible to meet your needs. Highly recommend.
Working with James and cloudship has honestly been a breeze. Whilst having technical difficulties with previous developers James was able to take 2 of my apps under his management and get them to where they need to be and with future development planned. James is straight to come back to me and is a very efficient worker with heaps of experience. Highly recommend!
Cloudship (James) has played a crucial role in the development of Protu's platform. From backend to frontend, his ability to translate complex product ideas into clean, production-ready engineering has been invaluable to our success.
Cloudship was founded by James Pickard, who has been writing software for about twenty years, first in London and Montreal, now in Suffolk.
We work with a few businesses at a time. When a job needs more hands, we bring in developers we have worked with for years.
We also build for ourselves. Omni Tend, our till and management system, runs our own pub, the Green Dragon, every day. It is in the work, with the rota and stock tools built alongside it.
Tell us what you have in mind. On the phone, on a video call, or over a coffee.