Rune · Kaiapoi, North Canterbury
Rune is one person, Josh. Online stores, paid course and membership areas, and the plumbing that stops you typing the same order into three different systems. Rune runs all of it every day for a shop in Kaiapoi, so none of it is theory.
Latest: a one-page checkout for a Rangiora coaching business, bought and tested for real on 1 November. See it.
Rune takes on work it can finish well, and quotes by the job so you know the number before anything starts.
New builds, and the messy ones fixed
New shops, and tidying up existing ones that have got out of hand. Product pages, the way things are grouped so people can find them, postage rules, and the checkout itself. The shop Rune looks after every day has 2,812 things for sale in it, so a big range is nothing new.
Built for SimplybTurn on what your website already has
Putting lessons or other content behind a payment, on a site you already own, with card payment set up and properly tested. Most small-business websites come with a members-only feature that nobody has ever switched on. Often the whole job is getting that working, with nothing rebuilt.
Built for Living by DesignOne stock number, everywhere
Your till, your website, your marketplace listings and your courier all working from the same stock number, updated without anyone retyping it. This is the work that quietly gives you your evenings back.
Running at SimplybSet up in the build, kept up after it
Getting your products described properly, so they turn up when someone searches, is part of every store Rune builds, and it carries on after the build. The first job is usually the wording: most products sit under whatever they got called on the shelf, rather than what a customer would actually type. On the Kaiapoi shop the share with wording written for search went from about 4% to 98%. Search is slow work, so expect nine to twelve months before a ranking really shifts, and Rune reports what changed as it goes.
Measured at SimplybBuilding a marketplace or an app from nothing, a site that needs a team behind it after launch, or work that has to be done by a certain date without a written scope first. Rune will say so on the first email rather than the fourth.
The systems Rune builds in and connects together. If none of these mean anything to you, that's fine. Knowing which one your business needs is Rune's job, not yours.
The client jobs each have their own page: what the business was, what Rune built, what changed, and what broke and how it was fixed. The numbers are full counts, not best weeks.
A gift shop in Kaiapoi with a website that couldn't take an order, and a business run on paper behind it. One system now runs the website, the till and the stock, and Rune runs it every day.
A paid course area and a booking flow for a Rangiora coaching business, built inside the website she already had, so there was nothing new to pay for. She came back for a second job: a checkout with fewer steps. Pictured: Module 1 as a visitor sees it before paying.
A daily sports puzzle site, built with a friend as a product of Rune's own rather than for a client. Nothing on it is written by hand: a script generates every day's puzzles from real career and game records, from a database the two of them build themselves out of public sources rather than renting someone else's feed.
Everything above was built by directing AI tools instead of typing every line by hand. Rune treats that the way a builder treats a nail gun: it decides nothing. Rune decides what gets built, checks what comes out, tests it, puts it live, and takes the call when it breaks at four on a Friday.
That's why the incident log in the Simplyb case is there. Anyone can show you a finished screenshot. What tells you whether someone can actually run a system is what they did the day it failed in front of a paying customer.
Most of Rune's work arrives by word of mouth. If someone has passed on the name, this page is here so you can see what has actually been built before you get in touch.
Rune quotes by the job, not by the hour, because you can judge a finished thing and you can't reasonably judge an hourly rate for work you don't do yourself. If something turns up outside what was agreed, you hear about it before the work happens, not after.
Say what you sell and what isn't working. You hear back within one working day, and the conversation costs nothing.
What will be built, what your website can already do, and what genuinely can't be done. The last part goes in writing too.
A quote for the whole job. Nothing starts until you've said yes to it, and nothing outside it happens without asking first.
Tested with real transactions, not a demo. Then Rune stays reachable for the day something breaks, because something will.
Email is the best way to reach Rune. Say what you sell and what's going wrong, and you'll get a straight answer on whether this is the right fit and what the job would cost. Every email is read by the person who would do the work, and you'll hear back within one working day. No charge for the conversation.
Online stores & membership sites
