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MakeBusinessShine

About

I'm Henry. I make websites that pass their own tests.

From QA to building things that ship.

I spent years finding bugs other people built. Broken checkout flows, forms that silently ate submissions, mobile pages that scrolled sideways. The pattern is always the same — somebody built it, somebody else shipped it, and nobody ran it on a real phone.

I started this studio so local businesses can buy a site that doesn't ship like that.

Why this, why now.

Wellington has a lot of small businesses with $5,000 quotes from agencies they can't justify, sitting beside $99 template sites that look it. There's a missing middle: thoughtful, fast, tested sites at a price a sole trader can sign off in an afternoon.

That's the gap I'm filling. Three builds a month, full attention each, fixed prices.

Bilingual — and I mean it.

I grew up speaking Mandarin at home and English everywhere else. When I deliver a bilingual site, both languages are written, not translated. A direct translation of Kiwi small-business English reads stiff and foreign to a Chinese customer — and you lose the trust you were trying to build.

How I work.

  • Fixed price agreed up front. No "scope creep" invoices.
  • Daily check-ins on a staging URL. You see progress; I don't disappear.
  • You own the code, the domain, and the hosting from day one.
  • If automated tests fail, I don't deploy. Same standard I held vendors to in QA.