i build things
worth using.

If it's slow, clunky, or held together with spreadsheets — I probably want to fix it. I help people get online in those early, unglamorous days, and I'm building a handful of tools because the right ones never showed up for me.

see what i'm building say hello

— the early days

website design

Domains, email, and a simple site — I help people get set up and online when they're just starting out.

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— in the lab

tools i'm building

A few problems worth solving properly, taken on one at a time.

ClassFrame · LMS/CRM DocDesk · docs CoastPass · local guide

— side of the lab

cozy garden

A small portfolio of cozy, low-stakes games and screensaver packs, for slow afternoons and background noise.

Happy Cactus · private beta Retro Pixel-Art Break App · private beta Window Garden · in progress Mood/Music packs · in progress

new side project

retro games restored

Classic DOS games from the early 90s, brought back and made playable in a browser — original binaries, no remakes. See what's playable →

Elegant problem-solving from an era when every byte mattered.

— about

Dune Hadad

Digital Mechanic · Hobbyist Builder

Ten years across aviation, procurement, ecommerce, and logistics taught me the same lesson everywhere: the processes were complicated and the right tools were usually missing. So I started building them myself. Shepstone Labs is the culmination of those years across very different worlds — built alongside a day job that's still very much alive, and driven by an adventurous streak that never stops wanting to explore the next thing. Named after Port Shepstone, my hometown on the KZN South Coast.

— the shepstone ecosystem

Shepstone Labs is one corner of a wider Shepstone name — the ideas, tools, and side projects I build alongside the day job, all under the same roof. Every one of them starts the same way: with a problem I'd want solved myself.

— contact

got a project, or an idea?

or, direct

Prefer email? Reach me straight away.