I'm Dutch, currently living in Colombia. My career started out in engineering, working on projects in different parts of the world. These days I'm home more, and I've picked programming back up — it was actually there at the very start of my career, before the rest of it took over, and now it's back to filling my time.

The first app on this marketplace exists because I needed it myself. I manage rental properties, and I was tracking tenants, meter readings, and progressive tariffs by hand — so I built a spreadsheet to do it properly. Once it worked, it was obvious that other landlords and small businesses run into the exact same kind of narrow, specific problem, and none of them can really justify paying a developer to build something from scratch just for them.

That's the idea behind XcelBuilds: build a real, working app once, for one business's actual problem, then let every other business with the same problem license that same build. It keeps the price honest, and it means the tool stays in use instead of sitting in one company's private folder.

This first app came from my own problem, but I only have so many of those and my goal is to build more of these.