Where This Fits
This overlaps with custom software development — the distinction is who it's for. Custom software usually means internal tools your own team uses. A web application here means something your customers, tenants, or the public log into and use directly: a marketplace, a booking system, a portal, a SaaS product. Different audience, different design priorities — public-facing usability and performance under real traffic matter more than internal tooling ever needs to.
What I Build
Multi-User Platforms
Applications with several types of users — customers, staff, admins — each with different permissions and views of shared data.
Marketplaces & Multi-Vendor Platforms
Platforms connecting buyers and sellers, or multiple independent parties operating within one system.
Customer Portals
Self-service applications where customers can log in, see their own data, and take action without contacting support for basic tasks.
Applications Built for Real Usage
Architecture and database design that holds up once the application has real, growing traffic — not just comfortable at demo scale.
Evidence
WheelsNearMe.ca is the clearest example — a multi-vendor marketplace handling 50,000+ users. Rent Life is a customer-facing web application with landlord and tenant roles sharing the same underlying data. Orthopedic Analysis shows the same pattern under stricter compliance requirements. All three were built to be used directly by the people the platform serves, not just by internal staff.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from your Custom Software Development page?
Overlapping on purpose. Custom software leans internal — tools your team uses. Web application development leans external — something your customers or users interact with directly. If you're not sure which fits your project, describe it and I'll tell you.
Can you build the frontend and backend, or just one?
Both. Laravel for the backend, and either Blade templates or Vue.js for the frontend depending on how interactive the application needs to be.
What if I already have a web application and need it extended?
Common starting point. I'll review the existing codebase before quoting anything, and I'll be honest if extending it makes more sense than rebuilding.