Jesse Sutherland

Founder, Solopreneur, Indie Hacker…

Whatever the correct title is, I am passionate about building and growing digital products online. I’ve always got a project (or a few) going:

signature.email

An email signature generator to create advanced layouts and distribute them throughout an entire organization.

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    My primary product right now generating income. An advanced editor to design unique and beautiful email signatures and a simple distribution method that can work for organizations of all sizes. Over 15,000 users have now created more than 20,000 signatures on the platform!

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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Tally Count App

An online-only tally counting app

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    What started as a quick weekend project has now become the de facto standard for tally counting with thousands of users. My goal was to make something beautiful, customizable, and useful in a number of different ways. After it gained traction I added some premium features such as real time counts across devices and history statistics.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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Groundwork1

Simple employee training sent straight to email inboxes

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    Groundwork1 is the most simple learning management system and employee onboarding tool for your employees or volunteers. Training materials are delivered via email, with no logins required for trainees. This makes the training easier to access and your team members more likely to complete it.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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The Votes Out

A free real-time mobile party game

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    A mobile phone party game I made for fun. Answer zany questions with your most creative, irreverent, and witty responses to win votes from other players. It's quick and fun with hilarious results that your group will be laughing about for days.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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Simple Estimate

Make project managers lives easier with this online web estimation tool

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    This is a side project of my own that I concepted, designed, and developed from the ground up. The tool is built to make creating estimates for projects easier and more accurate. Using a beautifully simple user interface it speeds up estimation process. Some of the features include project templates, online and PDF sharing, versioning, and much more.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
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STRYV App

Set your goals & achieve them with friends

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    Setting goals shouldn't be done alone. Set your personal weekly goals and habits in sight of your group of peers. Check them off as you accomplish them, and achieve personal and group streaks.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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State of Shirts

An e-commerce side project just for the fun of it

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    Everyone loves those "home" T-shirts with the state on it, right? But what about those people that are transplants, and home is in two states? Well, they can show their pride now with a shirt.

    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
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WP Client Reports

Send Beautiful Client Report Emails for WordPress Site Maintenance

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    A WordPress plugin I developed to help those of us who do monthly site maintenance for our clients and deliver professional reports to show what you have done on their site in the last month and help prove the value of what you are doing. Additionally I developed a Pro version of the plugin that allows for other statistics and integrations to be added to the report.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development
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Healthy Rivalry

Allow users to compete over the healthy goals they have set

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    This evolved out of an older project I worked on called Healthy Challenge. The idea was to use streaks and stats to motivate you to accomplish your goals. The issue I ran into was notifications, this was simply a web application and really needed to be a native app in order to have better user notifications.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
    • Laravel Development
    • Vue.js Front-End
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Archive Control

Help WordPress site builders control lists of content

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    I thought of this idea a long time ago but didn't have the development chops to make it. The idea returned to me when I needed it yet again and I finished it in a few days. It allows the site builder to define characteristics of lists of content, like custom headlines, descriptions before and after, order, pagination, and a bunch more handy stuff.

    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development
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WP Family Blog Theme

A WordPress Theme for Families and Mombloggers

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    I designed and developed this WordPress theme to be a beautiful, simple, and personal way to share family life online. Targeted especially at mom's who are interested in blogging about their kids, families, and their worlds. Every family member has their own profile and can be tagged on each post. It elegantly showcases family photos, cute stories, and everyday life.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development
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Sports Team Theme

A premium WordPress theme for club and high school sports teams

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    This premium WordPress theme I designed and developed has sold over 500 times in the last 7 years. It is flexible enough for any sports team to use and create their own custom site, allowing them to change the design to reflect their team as well as add rosters, schedules, and news.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development
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Project Pipeline

Help freelancers and small companies keep track of the projects they have in their que

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    This is my self-created dashboard for my freelance business. All of my projects and invoices flow through this interface. It helps me keep track of my sales process along with some of the accounting side as well. I decided to open it up to let other people try it out and give feedback.

    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • Ideation
    • Laravel Development
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Boxed Up Fun

Help board gamers answer the question "Which game should I buy next?"

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    A continuing project in my spare time to create a simple-to-browse database of board games for beginners. Users can create accounts to share their game collections and reviews as well as get personalized recommendations through a similarity engine that I developed.

    • Architecture & Wireframes
    • Design & User Experience
    • Development
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • Identity Design
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Agency Search

Create the definitive listing of creative agencies in Minneapolis.

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    This was my attempt to create a listing site where I would put up a list of agencies, allow them to be filtered using a variety of tags, and allow interested parties to feature their agency at the top with a logo. It's still a work in progress and I need to continue adding agencies and new cities.

    • Design & User Experience
    • HTML/CSS Front-End
    • Ideation
    • WordPress Development
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