Pink Lady Laundry came to me from a client who runs a number of laundromats. They had a website listing their locations, opening hours, pricing and how everything works – originally built by another freelancer in Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. They were after someone to take it over and make changes to it from time to time.
Normally WordPress would be the obvious choice for a site like this, and WordPress isn’t really my thing – but the client wasn’t especially technical and didn’t want to deal with it either. They just wanted to pay someone to keep the site running and make the odd tweak now and then, which I was happy to do. Since the site didn’t really need Ruby on Rails for what it was, the first thing I did was convert it to a static site using the Eleventy static site generator and move it over to Netlify. From there I made a number of tweaks for them over a couple of years.
Eventually the client sold the business. Ironically, the new owner decided to replace the site with WordPress anyway – so while pinkladylaundry.com.au is still up and running, the version there now is theirs, not the static site I built.