Dave Ellis
Work Apps I own · sites I built

Eight projects, one developer.

Five apps I own, design, develop and support myself, a driving brand I co-own, and two client websites. Everything here was built end to end by one person, which is the same arrangement you would be buying.

01 Owner & Developer

The Racing Line

Stream live motorsport and track 220+ global series, all in one app.

  • 0 Racing series
  • 0 Live streams
  • 0 Fans worldwide
  • 0 2,400+ ratings

Live streams

Watch 150+ series live, embedded right inside the app.

Your timezone, always

Every session auto-converted to your local time.

Smart alerts

Custom reminders per series, session type and lead time.

Personal dashboard

A clean weekly view of every series you follow.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play Learn moretheracingline.app ↗

iPhone · iPad · Mac · Apple Watch · Apple Vision · Android

Winner, Brand of the Year, 2026 Race Media Awards The Racing Line app on iPhone, showing this week's motorsport schedule with live race cards and session times
Location Vault on three iPhones: the places, cities and countries visited, a map of routes across London, and the Face ID lock screen
02 Owner & Developer · iPhone & iPad app Coming soon

Location Vault

Your location history, for your eyes only.

A private record of everywhere you go, from the maker of The Racing Line. It logs quietly in the background and maps every day, with no account, no tracking and no third-party ads: your history stays on your devices and in your own iCloud, locked with Face ID if you like.

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Sauna & Plunge on Apple Watch Ultra, timing a sauna round under Water Lock
03 Owner & Developer · Apple Watch & iPhone app

Sauna & Plunge

One press. Next phase.

A contrast therapy timer for Apple Watch, made for Ultra: one press of the Action button moves you from sauna to plunge and back, even with wet hands and Water Lock on. Live heart rate and a colour and a haptic for every phase on your wrist, with your history, bests and trends on iPhone.

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Widgeling on iPhone: a Home Screen of Widgeling widgets, with the widget editor either side
04 Owner & Developer · iPhone, iPad & Apple Watch app Coming soon

Widgeling

Little widgets, made by you.

A custom widget maker for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Vision Pro: 128 widget types, ready-made templates and a live editor, with 31 themes and 60 palettes. Free to start with no account, and Pro brings live weather, air quality and crypto to your widgets.

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Peek Notes for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch: the Mac app on a MacBook Pro with the Home folder's notes beside the folder index, and an iPhone Home Screen with a large Peek Notes widget
05 Owner & Developer · iPhone, iPad, Mac & Apple Watch app

Peek Notes

Short notes on your Home Screen.

For the little things you look up all the time: the Wi-Fi password, the gate code, the plumber's number. Folders of short notes, each with a symbol and a colour, and a widget for every folder that pages through it. On iPad, Mac and Apple Watch too, synced through your own iCloud, and free to download with no account.

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The Pass Pursuits website homepage, showing an aerial view of alpine switchbacks under the headline Experience Stelvio
06 Owner & Developer

Pass Pursuits

Alpine driving adventures: epic European road trips on the best driving roads in the world.

A driving-experience brand I co-own and develop end to end: the trips, the brand and the website. Where your car meets the serenity of soaring mountains.

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Charnwood Coatings and Fabrication website hero, showing the brand over a steel powder-coating workshop
07 Developer · Website design & build

Charnwood Coatings & Fabrication

Structural steel fabrication and bespoke metalwork in Loughborough, established 1985.

A complete website for a UKCA-marked steel fabricator: a fast, content-rich site built to showcase their capabilities and turn enquiries into work.

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The Circle website homepage, showing the brand mark, hero photography and the workspace search
08 Developer & Designer · Full site rebuild

The Circle

An award-winning Community Interest Company with a More Than Profit ethos, based in Dundee.

A busy social-enterprise site carrying four offers at once: affordable workspaces, consultancy, mobility and volunteering. Rebuilt from the ground up and rethemed on WordPress, with a colour-coded system for the four strands and an accessible palette throughout.

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FAQ About the work
What makes you an award-winning developer?

The Racing Line, the motorsport app I own, design and develop, won Brand of the Year at the 2026 Race Media Awards. It is used by more than 100,000 motorsport fans and holds a 4.9 star rating from over 2,400 ratings.

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Everything here was built by one person, end to end. If you want your business to be the next entry, tell me what you need and what it has to do, and I will come back with honest thoughts on scope, timing and cost.

Edinburgh · Working with businesses across Scotland, the UK and worldwide

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