I handcraft apps and websites.
My name is Eivind Lindbråten. I'm a freelance developer currently focused on app and web development, with over ten years of experience. With most projects I collaborate directly with designers and agencies, helping them implement their ideas. I think about the environmental impact of what I do, and offset the carbon footprint of my company.
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How I develop websites
Building websites is what I have most experience with, and mostly work with on a day to day basis. I follow the ever-changing trends, and incorporate the practices I find relevant.
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Frontend and backend
I enjoy both fronted and backend development. I like using the Jamstack architecture, to get a good separation of concerns.
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Details and animations
Details are important to give the experience the right feeling. I love spending time creating custom animations and interaction details.
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Sustainability
Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. Projects are built with as low carbon footprint as possible, using the carbon calculator as a basis (https://www.websitecarbon.com). Mist as a company offset carbon emission by a factor of two.
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Privacy
I'm a believer in privacy, and extend that belife to the work I do. I aim to use privacy focused trackers (only if necessary), and secure and privacy focused content storage.
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Next.js
Next.js is my go to framework for fronted projects, micro-services and smaller backend-only projects.
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Sanity
Prefered (and an amazing) content platform. The studio is React based, which makes it easy to also share components, models or other functionality between frontend, api's and content storage.
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Tailwind
Where it is fitting, I really like to write css using Tailwind. It greatly increases the speed at which I write my CSS, and gives a cohesive story for structuring and naming things.
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SEO
It's important to follow good practices for speed, accessibility and SEO. I use the Lighthouse metric (https://lighthouse-metrics.com) for measuring this, and always aim to get a score of 100 out of 100.
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Hosting
I can offer hosting for the entire project, billed montly or yearly. Hosting is done through Vercel and Sanity. I get volume discounts so I can offer a good price.
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Other services
I have experience with a great set of other tools, which I include in the project when nececarry. Video streaming and conversion is done through Mux, mail handeling through Postmark and privacy focused tracking through Fathom.
How I develop apps
Native app development is a passion of mine. My side project is building an app for iOS and macOS. I've worked on a couple of small and large commercial apps, including an iPad augmented reality game.
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Native
Apps are written in Native Swift, as I believe this produces the most performant and highest quality apps, with best of class system integrations.
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Apple eco-system
I make apps for the entire Apple eco-system, including iOS, macOS, watchOS, ARKit and more.
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The Composable Architecture (TCA)
Preferably I use PointFree's TCA for state management, to get a cohesive story for handeling and manipulating state.
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Minutes
I'm currently working on my own app, a time tracker, nativly written for iOS and macOS using SwiftUI and TCA.
Companies I've worked with
Over the years I've been lucky to work with many great companies. This is a brief selection. Many of these I have an ongoing relationship where we've worked on multiple projects together.
Projects I've worked on
This is a brief selection of some of the projects I've worked on. Most of these I've worked on as a solo developer, but occasionally I join a larger team to work on larger projects.
Wallenius Wilhelmsen // Design: Designit // Code: Solvr + Mist
NDC Conferences // Design: Bionic // Code: Mist (handed over to Iterate)
Aurora Passero // Design: Pati Passero // Code: Mist
Kalit // Design: Bielke & Yang // Development: Mist
Skolehager i Norge // Design: Growlab // Code: Mist
Do you want to work together?
Let's have a chat. I'm open to most types of projects, ranging in size from small to large.