For clients
Get clarity before committing. A systems analyst helps translate business needs into a realistic technical project that developers can price and deliver.
Building inclusive technology through managed delivery
Turn software requirements into professionally managed developer projects.
Rainbow Coders helps clients turn software and website ideas into clear, deliverable projects. Clients discuss requirements with a skilled systems analyst, members pitch solutions and pricing, and our project managers see accepted projects through delivery and payment.
How the platform works
From first conversation to delivered project.
Rainbow Coders acts as the bridge between clients who need technical clarity and developers who want fair, well-scoped project opportunities.
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Client discovery
A client discusses a software, website, app, automation, or digital idea with a Rainbow Coders systems analyst.
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Requirements shaped into scope
The analyst converts the discussion into a practical project brief with goals, features, assumptions, budget guidance, and delivery milestones.
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Developer pitch window
The approved brief is offered to Rainbow Coders development team, who can pitch their approach, timeline, examples, and charges.
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Client commissions project
The Project Manager pitches and agrees the preferred scope, cost, communication plan, and delivery route with the client.
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Project managed delivery
The Rainbow Coders project manager handles progress, checkpoints, scope changes, acceptance, handover, and payment through to completion.
What we do
For members
Receive well-framed project opportunities, pitch your own ideas and charges, and build paid work through a supportive developer network.
For delivery
Project managers keep projects moving with structured milestones, communication, documentation, delivery checks, and payment coordination.
Project types
Software, websites, integrations, and digital delivery support.
The systems analyst helps shape each idea into a project members can understand, price, and pitch for.
Websites
Marketing sites, landing pages, content-managed websites, accessibility improvements, and redesigns.
Software systems
Custom portals, dashboards, admin systems, booking tools, internal platforms, and workflow apps.
APIs and integrations
Data connections, third-party integrations, automation, API design, and system-to-system communication.
Data and databases
Data modelling, migrations, reporting, dashboards, CRM-style features, and database-backed applications.
Cloud and deployment
Hosting, deployment planning, backups, monitoring, CI/CD, and scalable infrastructure support.
Managed collaboration
Structured project communication between clients, members, systems analysts, and Rainbow Coders project managers.
Meet the founders
The people who started Rainbow Coders, and who still build the work.
Rainbow Coders was founded by developers who were tired of watching good projects fail for the wrong reasons: vague requirements, mismatched skills, and nobody accountable once the work started. So we built the thing we wanted to work with: clear scoping up front, the right people matched to the job, and someone managing delivery all the way through.
Between us we cover the whole chain, from bare-metal infrastructure and databases through to the interface your customers actually touch. Every project starts with one of us, and every project stays with one of us until it is delivered.
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Stuart Stead
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- Requirements Analysis
- Systems Architecture
- Scalable Systems Design
- High Availability and Failover
- Load Balancing
- Disaster Recovery
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All skills
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Tuning
- Server Administration
- cPanel
- Data Modelling
- Project Scoping
- PHP
- Laravel
- MySQL
- JavaScript
- React
- Node.js
- HTML5
- CSS3
- REST APIs
- WordPress
- Testing and QA
- Agile Delivery
- Technical Documentation
- Accessibility
Project demos
Community Events Hub Listings and sign-ups for local events, with an organiser admin area.
Accessible Form Kit Reusable form components built to WCAG standards for client projects.
Teekr-One Takeaway Ordering System End-to-end takeaway ordering, from menu management through to order tracking.
System Analyst and UI/UX Specialist
Ben Jones
Works the whole chain from bare metal upwards: modem and ONT, routing, and self-hosted servers, through the application, and back out to what the client sees in the browser. Turns business requirements into clear specifications, then builds and hosts the result.
- Self-Hosted Server Infrastructure
- VoIP
- DNS
- Web Servers
- cPanel
- Terminal
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- SSH
- Routing
- Self-Hosted AI
- Security
- Systems Architecture
- Full Stack Development
- LAMP Stack
- UI/UX
- Technical SEO
- WordPress
- PHP
- Python
- MySQL
- REST APIs
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Arduino
- Electron
- Android Development
- Virtualisation (KVM/QEMU)
- Testing and QA
Project demos
Dearthwood.uk Website Content-managed WordPress build with a custom theme and technical SEO throughout.
Techfaulta Booking System Online booking with availability rules, confirmations, and an admin dashboard.
Dearthwood Maps API Mapping and location endpoints serving site data to the front end and third parties.
Teekr-One Website Marketing site for the Teekr-One platform, built for speed and search visibility.
Lets in the Sun Booking System Property booking and enquiry handling with availability, pricing, and confirmations.
Lets in the Sun Property Catalogue Plugin Custom WordPress plugin for managing property listings and displaying them across the site.
BRJ Fabrications Website WooCommerce store for a fabrication business, covering products, checkout, and order handling.
Technical SEO Audit One tool covering crawl and indexing, keyphrases and density, Core Web Vitals, WCAG accessibility, AI-readiness, social media, and CRO, all reported with a prioritised list of fixes.
UI/UX and Full Stack Developer
Alasdair Bailey
Designs and builds across the modern JavaScript stack, pairing considered interfaces with dependable Node.js and Laravel back ends.
- UI/UX
- Node.js
- Express.js
- React
- Vue
- Angular
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All skills
- Laravel
- Python
- BASIC
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Electron
- CI/CD
- LAMP Stack
- Virtualisation (KVM/QEMU)
- Docker
- CCNA
- Cyber Security
- Testing and QA
Project demos
Business Ticket System Support ticketing with queues, assignment, and status tracking for internal teams.
Stargate Atlantis Novelty App A fan-built novelty app exploring interface ideas, animation, and playful UI.
Lets in the Sun UI/UX Interface design and user journey work for the Lets in the Sun property platform.
BRJ Fabrications Website QA testing across browsers and devices ahead of launch.
Lets in the Sun Property Catalogue Plugin QA testing, debugging, and end-to-end flow testing of the listing management plugin.
Lets in the Sun Control Centre A single dashboard with a clear UI and step-by-step wizards to manage everything on the website from one place.
From the blog
Practical writing on software projects, business systems and websites.
Delivery
Why software projects overrun, and how to stop it
Most software projects do not overrun because the code was hard. They overrun because nobody wrote down what was being built.
Business
When to replace a spreadsheet with a real system
Spreadsheets are excellent software, right up until the moment they are not. Here is how to tell which side of that line you are on.
Websites
What actually makes a business website work
A business website has one job. Most of what gets argued about in the build has no bearing on whether it does that job.
Start a project
Have a software or website requirement?
Book a discovery conversation with a Rainbow Coders systems analyst. We will help shape the requirement into a clear project brief, find and engage with the very best developers, and deliver fully tested results.