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I build durable websites and software for Kansas City small businesses, and open tools for stronger communities.
Hand-coded sites that don't break when some platform updates. Apps and tools when you need them. Open-source projects for the kind of software neighborhoods actually need. If you've got an idea, let's talk.
Recent . KC . Work
Sites I built and still run.
What . I . Build
What I build for Kansas City businesses.
Custom hand-coded websites for Kansas City small businesses. $399 to build, $29 a month to keep running. You own the code.
See plans →Through Anvilshare, I audit your software stack and build private replacements for the SaaS bills that aren't pulling their weight. Includes Single Brain, the private business memory.
anvilshare.ai →Through RivalDrop, I run weekly competitor scans on local businesses near you and tell you exactly where you're priced wrong. Starts at $99 a month.
rivaldrop.com/local →A Wix or Squarespace site is software you're renting. You pay $20 to $30 a month, you do all the work of building it, and when you stop paying, it disappears. What I build is a file. Plain HTML and CSS on a server. It doesn't need a subscription to exist. It doesn't break when a platform updates. It works exactly as well in five years as it does today. You're paying $29 a month for me to keep it running. That's it.
Open . Projects
Tools for the commons.
Alongside client work, I build open-source things I think should exist. If any of this sounds like something you're working on too, come say hi.
A framework for the effortless economy. Community-owned infrastructure for the basics.
Read the framework →A toolkit for building stronger communities. Neighborhoods run themselves better when they have the right tools.
neighborhoodos.org →A neighborhood AI literacy program in Waldo, KC. Workshops, a governance co-op, and a local inference server running free models for the community.
waldonet.simonlpaige.com →Open-source agent that scans data-broker sites for your info and files opt-out requests on your behalf. Runs on your machine. Your data never leaves.
github.com/simonlpaige/privacyworm →Open-source BTC/USD trading bot with LLM-driven pattern discovery, walk-forward validation, and a Stage 1 yield-stack portfolio. All strategies backtested before going live. Runs on your machine.
github.com/simonlpaige/cryptoworm →All the code, in public. Smaller tools, experiments, and the source for everything above.
github.com/simonlpaige →About
Hi, I'm Simon.
I was 14 when I figured out I could write programs on the TI-83 Plus I was supposed to be doing math on. Choose-your-own-adventure games first, then crude cartoon jokes drawn with the graph functions. Nobody told me what to make, so I made what I thought was funny.
A year later I was drawing comic strips in MS Paint, frustrated I couldn't get the panels to sit right on a page. That frustration was my introduction to layout. The fix was HTML. GeoCities page by 16.
Through my twenties I did freelance web work in Drupal, CSS, and WordPress. Hosted media libraries from servers in my own house, ran them through DynamicDNS, learned everything about the internet you can only learn by breaking it at 2 a.m.
Portland, 2002 to 2013. Bartended in the southeast, studied digital audio production and small business management, did indoor gardening automation on the side. Then back to KC.
A couple years of landscape design for Beaver Creative Environments, high-end residential. Same shop did custom furniture, so I milled wood for dining tables and conference tables for clients who could pick anything and picked custom. Loved the work. My back said no.
The last few years: control systems. ETC and Strand lighting, QSC audio, AMX and Extron, Dante and AVoIP on layer 2. Physical installs and sales with cities, counties, and governments. Taught me more about project management than any book did.
Websites were always what I came back to. Hand-coded, plain HTML, files on a server. Same satisfaction as a well-milled joint: the thing is made of what it looks like, and it'll last.
That's what I build for Kansas City small businesses now. Durable sites that won't break when some platform changes its mind. Alongside that I build Commonweave and Neighborhood OS, because the software neighborhoods actually need doesn't exist yet, and I'm tired of waiting for someone else to make it.
I'm most interested in building the tools that make the world a better place.
Collaborate
Got an idea? Let's build it.
Website, app, tool, automation, weird little experiment. If you've got something you want to make, I'm probably up for it. I'd rather try and learn than say no out of habit.
Open to: building your idea, contributing to your project, having you contribute to mine, swapping notes, or just being in each other's corner.
Get . In . Touch
Let's talk.
One person. Call, text, or email and I'll write back personally.