Web development studio
Websites that feel
fast
because they
actually are.
We're a studio building bespoke, lightning-quick websites and mobile apps for founders, studios and independents who'd rather not blend into the template crowd. No bloated builders. No cookie-cutter themes. Just considered design and clean code that ships in milliseconds.
Selected work
A few things we've
built lately.
Every project is bespoke. No two share a codebase, and none of them look like a template — because none of them are.
- 01 Meridian Coffee A subscription coffee storefront that loads in under 600ms. Custom checkout, recurring billing, and a roastery story that scrolls like a magazine. E-commerce · Headless 98 Lighthouse 2025
- 02 Studio Foxglove An architecture studio's portfolio with full-bleed imagery and buttery scroll. Built to make their work the loudest thing on the page. Portfolio · Editorial 0.4s LCP 2025
- 03 Northwind Capital A boutique fund's site rebuilt from a slow template into a hand-coded experience. Three times faster, half the page weight. Marketing · Brand −62% weight 2024
- 04 Petal & Press A florist's booking site with real-time availability and a checkout that converts. Mobile-first, because that's where the orders are. Booking · Local +44% bookings 2024
- 01
Marketing sites
Landing pages and brand sites that load instantly and turn visitors into enquiries. Built for the metrics that matter — speed, clarity, conversion.
- Brand & landing pages
- Copy-aware layout
- SEO foundations
- Analytics wired in
- 02
E-commerce
Headless storefronts with checkouts that don't make people bounce. Fast on mobile, easy to manage, and yours to own.
- Shopify / Stripe
- Subscriptions
- Custom checkout
- Inventory sync
- 03
Web apps
Dashboards, booking systems and tools built with modern frameworks — the interactive bits done properly, without the bloat.
- Svelte / Astro
- Auth & databases
- Real-time data
- API integrations
- 04
Performance rescue
Got a slow, heavy site? We'll rebuild or retune it until it flies. Most projects come out 2–4× faster and a fraction of the page weight.
- Core Web Vitals
- Page-weight diet
- Migration off builders
- Accessibility fixes
- 05 New
Mobile apps
The same obsession with speed and polish — now in your customers' pockets. Native-feeling iOS and Android apps from a single codebase, so you ship to both stores without paying for it twice.
- React Native · Expo
- iOS & Android
- App Store launch
- Push & offline
How it works
No agency theatre.
Just a clear path to launch.
- 01
Talk it through
We start with a proper conversation about your goals, your audience and what success actually looks like. No forms-and-quotes dance.
- 02
Design in the open
We work in short, visible loops — you see real progress every few days, not a big reveal at the end. Feedback shapes everything.
- 03
Build for speed
Clean, hand-written code with performance baked in from the first commit. Every kilobyte earns its place on the page.
- 04
Launch & hand over
We ship it, we make sure you can run it, and we're around afterwards. You own the code and the keys — no lock-in, ever.
- 100%
- Hand-coded, zero templates
- < 1s
- Typical page load
- 10+
- Years writing for the web
- 1:1
- You work directly with us
Start a project
Let's build
something
bright.
Tell us what you're working on. We read every message ourselves and reply within a day — usually a lot sooner.
- Email hello@brightweb.dev
- Based in United Kingdom · working worldwide
- Availability Taking new projects