Albertson Product Development is me, Pete. I help design, build, and maintain custom software & applications for the web. If you don’t know where to start or need help getting to the finish line, let’s work together.
Albertson Product Development is me, Pete. I help design, build, and maintain custom software & applications for the web. If you don’t know where to start or need help getting to the finish line, let’s work together.
Sometimes I think digital product development is like building a house.
I've never built a house so I'm not totally sure that's the best metaphor but it makes sense to me because 1. everyone uses houses, has opinions about them, and sometimes thinks "I could design a better house than this", 2. the process is actually pretty complicated even when you do know what you're doing and surprises can occur that make things expensive and/or a headache, 3. you don't *really* know what the final product is going to look and feel like until it *exists*, and lastly, 4. the final product requires upkeep & maintenance and, occasionally, needs to be completely torn down and replaced.
Having experienced these challenges many times over in the process of creating software, I take on new projects with the aim to minimize their impact. I error on the side of simplicity and overcommunicating to avoid surprises. You can read more about my thoughts on these concerns among other things on Medium.
So if you're someone in need of a new or improved house website or application, feel free to reach out and tell me more about what problem you're trying to solve.
React is an open-sourced frontend library created by Facebook that "makes it painless to create interactive UIs." It's great for making a web page feel more like an app in terms of performance and interactivity.
Rails is an open-sourced framework for building expressive full-stack web applications on Ruby, a developer friendly backend language. Perhaps the most productive and efficient way to build a custom web app.
Shopify is a leading e-commerce solution aimed at making it easier to sell your goods online. Payment processing, hosting, and inventory management all come included along with an impressive community of third-party applications.
Firebase, once its own startup eventually acquired by Google, is a backend as a service. In slightly more approachable words: they offer a plug-and-play hosted solution for application databases, among other mobile and web app needs. Great for getting simple applications up and running quickly and integrates well with other Google Cloud services.
Amazon Web Services is a suite of tools aimed at solving nearly every web hosting problem under the sun. Despite their wacky names (wtf is an elastic beanstalk anyway?), they're comprehensive in their capability and efficent in their costs.
Together with Jekyll, a simple static site generator, Siteleaf is both developer and client friendly and makes it easy to build and maintain a modern CMS.
This list is by no means comprehensive based on my experience. If your stack consists of something entirely different, I still might be able to help. Just hit me up.
Like a true millienial, I am *always* online but the best way to get ahold of me is e-mail which works especially well for introductions and follow-ups. Call or text for anything urgent.
You can also find me bullshitting on social media!
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