Work
Things I have built
Not mock-ups or concepts. Real products and sites, live and in use, each written up: the problem, how it works and what it changed.
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01
Kritano, a website auditing platform
A SaaS I founded, built and run. It audits a website across SEO, accessibility, security, performance, content quality and structured data in under two minutes.
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More than 500 checks in under two minutes, across SEO, accessibility, security and performance.
- Role
- Founder, designer and developer
- Year
- 2026
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02
cg-cms, a lightweight CMS for Laravel
A Laravel CMS I designed and built to run this site. Content in Postgres, HTML rendered on save and served from disk by nginx, with an admin built in Inertia and React.
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Cached pages serve in 4.4ms at 3,900 requests a second on one vCPU, on a 1GB server.
- Role
- Sole designer and developer
- Year
- 2026
- Stack
- Laravel, Postgres, Inertia, React, TypeScript, Tailwind, nginx
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03
chrisgarlick.com, rebuilt on Laravel
This site, moved from Astro and a Bun CMS to Laravel and cg-cms, with every URL kept, faster pages and lead capture built in.
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Every one of the 79 live URLs kept, and lab LCP down from about 3 seconds to under 2 before launch.
- Role
- Sole designer and developer
- Year
- 2026
- Stack
- Laravel, Postgres, cg-cms, Tailwind, nginx
Want something built like this?
Tell me where it is now and where you want it to be. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.