DH Website Services

Websites, apps and the back-office systems that actually run a business. Pontypridd, South Wales. You deal with me, not an account manager.

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🏆 DH Website Services has been shortlisted for the Wales Prestige Awards 2027/28!

I’m really pleased to share that DH Website Services has been shortlisted for the Wales Prestige Awards 2027/28.

The Wales Prestige Awards recognise outstanding SMEs and independent organisations across the region, with judging based on areas including service excellence, customer feedback, quality, innovation, value, ethical business practices and overall performance.

For a small, founder-led business, being shortlisted is something I’m genuinely proud of.

DH Website Services started with a simple goal: build good websites and software that actually work for businesses - without the usual corporate bullshit.

We build websites, web platforms, booking systems, apps and custom software, with projects starting from around £600+ for apps and fixed-price website packages available too.

We’re now looking forward to completing the next stage of the awards process and seeing where it goes.

Thank you to everyone who has supported DH Website Services so far. ❤️

Shortlisted for the Wales Prestige Awards 2027/28. 🏆

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"We'll get to the website eventually" is the most expensive sentence in small business.

#SmallBusinessUK

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Local SEO in one line:

be the obvious answer to a question someone in your town is already typing.

#LocalSEO #SmallBusinessUK

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A rota system your staff actually use beats a beautiful one they ignore.

Every time.

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Cold outreach yesterday: 19 emails out, one booked call.

That's a normal hit rate. Anyone promising you better is selling something.

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Own your customer list. Own your domain. Own your booking data.

If a platform holds all three, you don't have a business. You have a tenancy.

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We replaced a £200/month phone bill by building the phone system ourselves. Calls, queue, voicemail, 999.

Runs on Cloudflare and Twilio for pennies.

Sometimes the software you buy is worse than the software you own.

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If your business runs on a WhatsApp group and a wall planner, that isn't a failure.

It's just a ceiling.

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Most small businesses don't have a software problem.

They have a paper problem.

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@Guronnimo Yes. We have a fully built internal staff portal and CRM. Handles our outreach, staff/ hr and onboarding.

Used every day.

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We’re giving away a pair of #Airpods at random to 2 of our first 500 followers. All you have to do is:

- Follow us
-Like this post
-retweet it

AirPods will be drawn this Friday!

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Your website isn't a brochure.

It's the thing that answers the phone at 11pm when you're asleep.

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"Can you build us an app?"

Usually the answer is no, and a website does the same job for a tenth of the price.

An app earns its place when people come back weekly. Bookings, loyalty, rotas.

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Cold outreach yesterday: 19 emails, one booked call.

That is a normal hit rate. Anyone promising you better is selling you something.

#SmallBusinessUK

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Multiplayer runs on Cloudflare: a Worker, D1, and one Durable Object per match.

Durable Objects use WebSocket hibernation, so an idle match is evicted and costs nothing until the next message.

Whole thing runs on the free plan.

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The daily challenge has to generate an identical tank on iOS and Android.

I ported the RNG by hand — xorshift64, bit for bit. Two traps in Dart:

>>> not >> for unsigned shift
BigInt for unsigned 64-bit modulo

Get either wrong and the two platforms quietly diverge.

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The honest version of a launch:

our first Android release froze people's phones. It baked a gigabyte of textures before the first frame ever drew.

Fixed, shipped, and it's now the thing I test hardest.

Test on the worst device your customer owns.

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"It works on the emulator" is not a test result.

The emulator has your desktop's RAM. The bug that bricked our launch was a memory bug. It could never have reproduced there.

Test on the worst device your customer owns.

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Our first Android release bricked phones.

It baked ~1GB of textures in main() before runApp(). Behind the launch splash, so a failure was invisible and looked exactly like a hang.

Nothing heavy before the first frame. Ever.