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Akarsh Bandi

Akarsh Bandi

Independent web designer & builder

Based in India · Working worldwide · Since 2026

I build websites for small businesses — restaurants, trades, studios, small software teams. One person does the thinking, the design and the building, which means nothing gets lost between three people and a handover meeting.

Six of those are live right now, and they are real builds rather than mockups: a wood-fired restaurant, an interiors studio, a dental practice, a roofing contractor, a personal-injury firm and a strength club. Different industries, the same stack — Astro rendering the pages, Sanity holding the content, Cloudflare Workers serving it from the edge. All six are written up on the work page.

Every site I hand over comes with an editing screen, so the owner can change text, photos and prices themselves. Tap a field, type, publish. It's the part most people don't realise they should be asking for. There is a case study on it.

Speed isn't a feature I bolt on at the end, it's the default. The last build I measured came in at 99 for performance and 100 for accessibility on PageSpeed — a 173ms server response and zero layout shift — before any of it was written a second time to cover Safari. The measurements are written up here.

When you pay for a website, you should own it—not rent it. What I deliver is a fixed price in writing, clean code you completely own, and a secure editing screen to change your own content without breaking a thing. By launching directly on Cloudflare's global free tier (opens Cloudflare's official Free plan documentation), your hosting bill is zero — the only recurring cost is your own domain name, which you own too. Putting you in total control of your asset is simply the right way to do business.

How I work

  • Start with your business, not the layout
  • Show real pages early — never moodboards
  • Fixed price, in writing, before anything starts
  • You own everything: code, domain, content

What I build with

Astro

I build content sites on Astro. It ships almost no JavaScript, so pages arrive as plain, fast HTML — and stay fast as your site grows. No framework runtime for every visitor to download.

98 PageSpeed on a site this size

Sanity

The editing screen behind every site I build. Plain-language fields, safe publishing, and your content in your hands — change a price, publish, done.

no developer in the loop

Cloudflare

Where your site lives and deploys. A global network, free SSL and unmetered bandwidth on the free tier, with the scope of the support explained before launch.

free tier · SSL included