Hi, I'm Sean Swanson.
Developer and designer, Brainerd, Minnesota.
I'm a developer and designer in Brainerd, Minnesota. I build small businesses the software they'd otherwise rent, and I look after it once it's theirs.
The work happens over email and video calls, so where you are doesn't change the price or the timeline. I take local work when it comes up, but most of what I do is remote.
My training is in design rather than computer science — an associate's degree in graphic design from Bryan University — and the code came after. That order shows up in the work: I care what a thing looks like and how it reads, not only whether it runs.
Five things that don't change.
Fixed price up front
The number is agreed in writing before work starts, and it does not move afterwards.
Plain English
If a technical term has to appear, it gets explained in the same sentence.
Straight answers
Including when the answer is that you should keep what you have.
You keep the source code
On every job, without asking. The data is yours and exportable.
You talk to me
There is only me. No account managers, no handoffs, no outsourcing.
Software I use every day.
An admin panel, an SEO analyzer that produces branded reports, desktop tools, bots — built to run my own businesses, which is the hardest client to fob off with something that almost works. You can see all of it under Work.
The websites I've delivered for clients are there too. Same standard, same fixed price agreed in writing first.
Tell me what you're paying for.
I reply within 24 hours. Whether or not you hire me.