About
One person, answerable for the whole thing
SH Hashmi is a studio of one. That is the constraint and it is also the point — the person who scopes your project is the person who writes it and the person who picks up when something breaks.
Siddique Haider Hashmi
I am Siddique Haider Hashmi, and I build software for businesses that need something specific and cannot find it off the shelf. I have been writing code professionally since 2018, across more than 100 delivered projects — websites, mobile apps, internal tools and storefronts.
Most of what I take on falls into one of two shapes. The first is a business that has outgrown its tools — a spreadsheet that three people edit at once, a booking process that runs through WhatsApp, an inventory count that is always slightly wrong. The second is a business that needs to look credible online and currently does not.
Neither of those is a technically hard problem. What makes them go wrong is almost always the same thing: nobody agreed precisely what was being built, so the scope drifted, the budget followed it, and the result satisfied nobody. So I put more effort into the scope than into the code. The code is the easy part.
A hundred projects across 8 years teaches you mostly one thing: the build is rarely what goes wrong. What goes wrong is the gap between what someone pictured and what was written down. So the scope gets the attention, and the code follows from it.
Working alone means I take on fewer projects at once than an agency, and I am honest about that. It also means there is no account manager between you and the person typing, no junior learning on your budget, and nobody to point at when something is late.
If your project genuinely needs a team of eight, I will tell you so rather than take the deposit and find out together.
- TypeScript
- Astro
- Next.js
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- React Native
- Shopify
- Liquid
- Python
- Claude API
- Vercel
What I hold to
Built to be fast, not just to look fast
Performance is a budget decided before the first component is written, not a cleanup pass at the end. Pages are measured on a throttled mobile connection, because that is how most people will actually open them.
Maintainable after handover
The interesting question is not whether it launches. It is whether it can change in year two. Content lives in files you can edit, the structure is documented, and nothing depends on me being reachable.
Secure and compliant by default
Security headers, validated inputs, rate limiting and no secrets in the browser — configured from the first commit rather than bolted on after a scare. Accessibility held to WCAG AA throughout.
What to expect
- 01
Discuss
A call about the problem, not a feature list. You get an honest read on what it needs, what it does not, and roughly what it costs — before anyone commits.
- 02
Scope
A written scope within two working days: what is included, what is excluded, the timeline and the fixed price. Nothing starts until you have agreed to it.
- 03
Build
A live link from the first week, updated as work progresses. You see it take shape and can redirect early, when redirecting is still cheap.
- 04
Launch
Domain, hosting, analytics and search console configured. You receive every credential, plus notes you can act on without calling me.
Let us talk about your project
A short conversation costs nothing and usually saves more than it takes.