One page, one job.
Built around one purpose: a product, a campaign, an event. Simple in scope is not the same as cheap in execution.
Web development · Malé, Maldives
Web development in the Maldives. Want a site like this one? Want to upgrade yours? Want a web app?
I’m Ismail Mohamed Fareed, a web developer in Malé. I build landing pages, business websites with a CMS and custom web applications. Never from a template.
Who you’re actually talking to
The person who replies is the person who builds it.
No account manager, no sales layer, no brief lost on its way to a developer. Decisions take minutes instead of meetings, and your project is nobody’s second priority.
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Point of contact
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Templates used
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Briefs handed on
1# before any code exists
2problem: "what is actually broken"
3users: "who has to live with it"
4scope: "what is in, what is out"
5data: "what the system remembers"
6flows: "what happens, in order"
7done: "how we know it works"
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9# only then: the stack
1# chosen after the spec, never before
2runtime: "what it has to run on"
3data: "a database, or a flat file"
4auth: "who gets in, and how"
5hosting: "what it costs every month"
6admin: "who edits it without calling me"
7exit: "how you leave, if you want to"
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9# boring, wherever boring is cheaper
Five kinds of work
Landing pages. Websites. Custom web applications. And two the Maldives asks for.
The line between them isn’t page count. It’s what the thing has to do.
Many pages, real content.
Business websites and directory sites for Maldivian companies: search, filtering, forms, and a CMS you can operate without calling me every week. Bilingual Dhivehi and English where you need it.
When the site becomes a system.
Accounts, databases, role-based dashboards, payments, integrations. Less about presenting information, more about running an operation.
Selling online, in the Maldives.
Product catalogues, carts, local payment gateways and delivery that knows the difference between Malé, Hulhumalé and an island two ferries away.
Bookings that come direct.
Property websites and booking engine integration for guesthouses, dive centres and small resorts — built so you depend less on the OTAs.
- React
- React Native
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Vite
- Supabase
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
- Cloudflare
- three.js
Priced on what it has to do, never on how many pages it has. What a website costs in the Maldives →
How the work gets made
I don’t start with a template.
I start with the problem.
Nothing over-engineered to sound impressive. Nothing under-engineered to save me a week.
Design is the product
Not decoration bolted on at the end. Structure and interaction are the functionality.
Motion with a reason
To show continuity and guide attention. Never because something could move.
It has to work properly
Fast, accessible, secure and tested as part of the build, not sold as an extra.
Different problems, different answers
No house style you get poured into. Your content and your users shape the result.
Recent project · 01
Go Construction · construction company website, Malé
Corporate website development for a Maldivian construction firm with nine years of built work.
goconstructionmv.com
Nine years of built work and no website that showed it. Now the projects carry the credibility and the interface stays out of their way.
- ScopeSix pages and a full project portfolio.
- DesignCinematic dark palette, editorial grid, full-bleed site photography.
- MotionView transitions, so pages animate instead of blinking.
- EngineeringHand-written, no framework. Built to be fast on Maldivian mobile connections.
Current project · 02
The Mosque Directory · a government web application
Ministry of Islamic Affairs and Endowments, Republic of Maldives.
Not public, and not finished. What you can
open is a demo of the concept, running on sample data.
mosquedir.littlemandev.com
An official ministry platform, in development: every mosque in the country, searchable, on a map. Bilingual in Dhivehi and English, right-to-left throughout.
- Demo todayMap, search, mosque records and a role-based admin module for ministry staff, running on sample data.
- In buildA native app in React Native: prayer times, Qibla, Hijri calendar, offline access, issue reporting.
- PlannedIntegration points for the ministry’s own systems: SQL Server, Microsoft 365 and eFaas.
Small by choice
I’m not alone.
I’m also not forty people.
A one-person web development practice in the Maldives that scales up deliberately — not a web design agency pretending to be one.
IFIsmail Mohamed FareedDesign, build, delivery, every project
+Designers & illustratorsBrought in by project
+Engineers I trustFor scale and specialism
What you get
- One person who knows the whole system
- Direct answers, not ticket numbers
- Specialists added when the work needs them
- Honest scope, including “you don’t need that”
- The same person from first call to handover
What you don’t
- Invented headcount
- “Our team of experts”
- Basic / Pro / Premium packages
- Buzzwords standing in for decisions
- A junior quietly assigned to your build
The honest version
Yes, AI writes a lot of the code.
No, that’s not the part that matters.
Code generation is the last step of the process, not the process.
Before: the actual work
Specs, requirements, architecture
A spec, a data model, an architecture. Written before anything is generated.
During: execution
AI executes the plan
A very fast pair of hands, working to a design that was already decided.
After: judgement
Review, reject, refine
Knowing what to reject is most of the skill. Nothing ships that I wouldn’t sign.
You can prompt an AI yourself. The difference is knowing what to ask for, what to throw
away, and what finished means.
How a project runs
Six steps, in this order.
You don’t need a technical specification. Say what you want and who it’s for.
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Describe it
What it does, who uses it, and your deadline.
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Requirements & spec
I write the scope down, so we agree on the same thing.
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Estimate & terms
A price for that scope, and a payment schedule.
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Development
You see progress at the checkpoints, not at the end.
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Payment & handover
Final payment, then delivery of everything we agreed.
The technology comes after the understanding, never before it.
Payment
Projects are divided into agreed checkpoints.
A deposit before development begins. The rest on milestones, or on completion.
Smaller projects
50 / 50
Deposit to start · balance on completion
Medium projects
40 / 40 / 20
Deposit · milestone · completion
Working software before the balance is due.
Larger applications
30–40 + milestones
Deposit · per milestone · final
Every payment tied to something delivered.
- The schedule is fixed in the quotation before development begins, and does not move afterwards.
- No 100% upfront, and no building for weeks on a promise. The risk is split, deliberately.
- Delivery follows the agreed payment terms.
Delivery & ownership
What you own, and what it costs to run.
Ownership is settled in writing before the build, not argued about after it.
- The domain can transfer to you on completion. If it stays on my card, that cost is billed to you.
- Anything I keep running is quoted upfront as a monthly or annual figure.
- Unpaid services get cancelled. Said plainly here so it is never a surprise later.
- If you take it over, maintenance is mine only where we agreed it.
✓Live site, deployed
✓Source code & repository
✓Admin dashboard + accounts
✓Hosting & domain access
✓DNS configuration
✓Credentials, transferred securely
✓Documentation
·Third-party costs per agreement
·Maintenance only if agreed
·hosting quoted before the build starts
·domain renewed once a year
·database only if it needs one
·apis metered, listed by name
·storage per gigabyte, if you store files
·upkeep only where it was agreed
·Every figure is in the quotation.
·Nothing recurring appears later as a surprise.
Let’s build it
Tell me what’s broken.
Or what should exist.
No spec, no wireframe, no right words needed. Describe the problem.
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info@littlemandev.com
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Serving Malé, Hulhumalé, Vilimalé and the atolls, and working remote with clients outside the Maldives.
© 2026 Ismail Mohamed Fareed · Maldives
Understand the problem first, then build the right thing.