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Behind Valdev, one freelance web developer
Not a logo, not a customer service desk, not a form that bounces into a call centre. One person, reachable, who answers you directly and writes your site's code themselves.
01 Hello
I'm Valentin
I'm a freelance web developer based in Flers, in Normandy. Valdev is me: not an agency, not a floor of ten people, not a salesperson who sells you a project before handing it to somebody else. The person you speak to at the first meeting is the one who will write the code.
I do this work because I like the moment a fuzzy idea turns into something you can click. And because there are still, in rural Normandy as everywhere else, plenty of businesses excellent at their craft yet invisible online — or worse, paying a monthly subscription for six years for a site they do not even own.
My job is as much translating as it is coding: understanding what you do, saying it plainly, and putting it where your customers are looking for it.
01 Where I work
Normandy first, then everywhere else.
Around Flers I come to you for the first meeting: seeing a workshop, a shop or a practice says more than an hour on video. Beyond that, everything works perfectly well remotely — half my projects require no travel at all.
If you are more than an hour away, it changes nothing about the quality of the work. Meetings happen over video, the site is built on an address you can check whenever you like, and everything else goes by email or phone.
In-person visits possible
Remotely
Anywhere in France, Belgium, the UK and Spain. Central European time zone, messages answered between 9am and 6pm, Monday to Friday.
02 Tools
The right tool for the right project.
I do not impose a single technology. A five-page site does not need the same architecture as a shop with three thousand products: going too big costs a fortune to maintain, going too small blocks growth.
The test is always the same: can you live with this site in five years, and could another developer take it over without rewriting everything?
Depending on the need
03 What keeps me going
Three things, if you'd like to know.
You may end up working with me for several weeks. You might as well know who you are dealing with.
- Sport. It balances out a job spent sitting down, and it taught me to finish what I start.
- Building websites. It's not just my job, it's what I'd be doing anyway. It shows in the result, and that works in your favour.
- Turning an idea into a real site. My favourite moment is going from “I roughly see what I want” to a mockup sitting in front of you. That's when projects unlock.
Shall we talk?
The first conversation lasts thirty minutes, costs nothing and commits you to nothing. You will know very quickly whether we click — and so will I.