TourPass came to me as a product that already existed. I redesigned it, refactored the code underneath, and have been the engineer keeping it running and improving it for about two years since.
TourPass already existed when it became mine. Taking over someone else’s product is its own skill: before you change anything, you have to learn how it was built, what is load-bearing, and what is quietly broken.
Once I understood it, I redesigned the product and refactored the code underneath it, so that what customers saw and what ran behind it were both something I could stand behind and keep building on.
Since the takeover I have been the single engineer on it. That is the unglamorous half of the job: things stay up, problems get fixed before they become incidents, and the product keeps working while the business gets on with the business.
It is the same pattern behind the rest of this work. The person who rebuilds the product is the person who stays and runs it, which is why it has been reliable for about two years rather than handed off and rebuilt again.
“I hired Matt to take over a challenging app development project left in disarray by a previous developer. He not only cleaned up the messy code but also completely transformed the app, enhancing its functionality and elevating the user experience (UX) and design to an exceptional level.”
That is the whole offer. I take it over, make it something worth building on, then stay and keep it running.