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Yellow Blue Bus

In Russian the name almost sounds like “I love you.” We noticed. We kept it.

Web that people actually like

Sites and web apps for people and nonprofits. Sometimes pro bono, sometimes paid. Always without the agency fog.

01

Stops

What I build

Not a universe-sized menu. Four clear routes — from a single page to a small app that should not live in a spreadsheet.

01Landing

One page that explains why you exist and isn’t shy about asking for an action. No values carousel.

02Nonprofit site

Mission, reports, help, people. So a donor knows where money goes, and a volunteer knows where to show up.

03Web app / cabinet

Requests, statuses, shifts, access. When the spreadsheet buckles and a “real CRM” feels like someone else’s house.

04Care & fixes

A live site that needs speed, repair, or a careful extra stop. No rewrite of the world — unless we must.

02

Honest fare

For people who help people

Nonprofits are not a pity genre. They are clients with a mission, reporting, and deadlines. Free happens. Endless doesn’t.

When it’s free

The brief is clear, the timeline is sane, and I can do it well in a bounded slice of time. Usually: a landing, a tidy site, a launch. Pro bono is not “we’ll see later.”

When it’s paid

You need production, a cabinet, integrations, ongoing care, several roles and rounds. That’s work, and it has a price. You’ll hear the number before anyone falls in love with a mockup.

Pro bono cap: 1–2 projects a quarter. If the seats are taken, I’ll say so — no polite fog, no maybe-queue.

03

No gloss yet

Cases

Three placeholders, ready to swap for real stories. Names are fiction — replace the facts when you have them.

Open Window Fund

Nonprofit site + help form

Requests stopped vanishing into a shared inbox. The coordinator sees a queue, not chaos.

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North Workshop

Enrollment landing

The group filled in a week with no ads — the page finally spoke like a person.

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Shift cabinet

Volunteer web app

Shifts fill themselves. Reminders go out on time. The coordinator sometimes sleeps.

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04

Timetable

How we ride

  1. 01

    A short talk

    What you actually need — not what the five-section brief claims. Thirty minutes, no studio pitch deck.

  2. 02

    The route

    Structure, timeline, what’s in and what’s out. You see price and scope before anyone opens Figma.

  3. 03

    Build

    Design and code side by side. Not three weeks of mockups and a surprise in production. You get a working URL.

  4. 04

    Handoff

    Repo, access, how to live with it. The site is yours. I don’t keep the keys “just in case.”

05

Last stop

Write. Small bus — I answer myself.

Short version: who you are, what you need, by when. If the wording is messy, send it messy.

No backend yet: this opens your mail client. Resend can take over later.