Jacob Hayes

Projects

Tools built from real problems.

Most of these started as "there has to be an easier way" at work. Built in evenings, with modern tools that make a one-person team a lot faster.

In daily use

Sale Manager

Scheduled, store-wide discounts that show on the product, not just in the cart.

Most ecommerce platforms come with promotions built in, like buy one get one or spend-and-save offers. Those only kick in at the cart, once something's added or a condition is met. What they don't do well is a proper store-wide sale: set a specific discount across hundreds of products, show it right on the product page, and have it start and stop on schedule. That's what this does.

  • Percentage off, an amount off, or a set sale price
  • Applied in bulk, including straight from a CSV file
  • Shown on the product itself, not hidden until checkout
  • Scheduled to start and end automatically
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In development

Analytics Tool

Getting more out of the data a business already has.

Platforms give you their own reports, but they only go so deep. This tool brings the data together so it can be reviewed properly: compared across a range of factors, used to track real return on investment, and dug into in ways the standard dashboards just don't offer.

  • Compare performance across lots of different factors
  • Track ROI on campaigns and spend
  • Deeper analysis than the built-in platform reports
  • Store, web and social data side by side
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Weekend build

Hue TV Sync

Smart lights that follow what's on screen.

A very simple app for a more cinematic night in. It records a tiny copy of the TV screen and sends the colours to the Philips Hue lights around it, so the room reacts to whatever's playing.

  • Uses screen recording to read the picture
  • Works with the Hue lighting ecosystem
  • Updates the lights many times a second
  • One button: on or off
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Side project

Knee Jar

Experimental electronic music.

Dark, ambient and hard to categorize. No formal training and no rules, just whatever sounds good.

Listen on SoundCloud
Passion project

A game, just for fun

Big battles and strategy, built in Unity.

A third-person game with a heavy focus on large-scale battles and strategy. It's purely a passion project, something I chip away at for the fun of it. The first build is done, and it's now being playtested by a few friends.

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Consulting

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Happy to talk through how these work, or whether a similar approach could help your business.

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