The Database, and the Tables I Deleted When I Changed Direction
By the second redesign, I had stopped thinking of the plugin as code with a database attached, and started seeing it truthfully,…
WordPress Plugins
Plugins I build for WordPress, and the lessons learned shipping them.
Building Forms the Admin Can Shape, Not Ones Frozen in Code
A maid’s profile needs different fields from a driver’s. Cooking specialities for one, licence class for the other. The naive build hardcodes…
Why No Profile Went Public Until a Human Approved It
Most platforms race content live, sign up, post, visible in seconds. MaidsMe does the opposite on purpose, a worker completes a profile…
The Hiring Flow That Gives Everyone Exactly What They Need
The teardown left MaidsMe with one central flow, and this post builds it end to end. An employer browses profiles without any…
The One Privacy Rule That Shaped the Whole Platform
Every platform has one rule that, if you trace it, explains half the codebase. For MaidsMe it is this, no worker’s phone…
The Moment I Decided to Tear Down My Own Design
Tearing down your own working code is a specific kind of pain. Version one of MaidsMe worked, two login systems, two dashboards,…
My First Marketplace Design: Two Logins and a Chat in the Middle
My first design for MaidsMe was symmetrical, and the symmetry felt like quality. Two kinds of users, so two of everything, a…
Building a Marketplace for Domestic Workers, and the Weight of It
After the limo plugin, my next build carried a different kind of weight. MaidsMe Pro is a job marketplace for domestic workers…
What Building My Most Ambitious Project Really Taught Me
The limo booking plugin was the most ambitious thing I had built, and the most humbling. A complete ride platform as a…
The Human Touches That Make a Service Real
By this point the limo plugin had its booking flow, its payments, its driver side, and an app like feel. But a…