Ben Spooner.

I build and maintain modern websites with ongoing operational QA.

Things I build, and keep healthy.

Main builds

  • Modern websites for independent businesses, practices, and small teams
  • Fast, maintainable Next.js builds with clear content and conversion paths
  • Booking, enquiry, payment, CMS, and content flows that feel joined up

Retainers

  • Ongoing website QA: SEO, indexing, performance, analytics, and content checks
  • Regular fixes, improvements, and operational monitoring after launch
  • Private tooling for search visibility, copy audits, migrations, DNS, APIs, and the awkward bits

Operational layer

A private search visibility system for the sites I build and look after.

An operational platform for maintaining and improving the search performance of multiple websites.

Search Console · Screaming Frog · Ahrefs

Selected projects.

Founder

CopyLint

A copy checker for teams that need their writing to stay on-brand.

Collaboration

Mothers Memoirs

A guided writing space for honest reflections on motherhood.

Things I've been thinking about.

Become a multi-instrumentalist. It’s easier than you think

What is a multi-instrumentalist?

Wikipedia defines a multi-instrumentalist as:

“a musician who plays two or more musical instruments at a professional level of proficiency” - Wikipedia

Notice the word ‘proficiency’. In Wikipedia’s view multi-instrumentalists have to be experts, not just on one instrument but on all of them - no easy feat. There’s no denying it’s incredible to watch and listen to musicians who have mastered their craft, however I prefer to think of multi-instrumentalists as ‘musically fluent’ rather than proficient. Fluency is a very different proposition, a more attainable one. Where proficiency is reserved for the few, fluency is open to all…

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Labs.

Practice system

GoAgain

A rhythm-based practice system for training timing, focus, and musical fluency.

How I got here.

I started in music - teaching, performing, writing, and later publishing a book on learning piano through composition.

Beginner to Composer In 14 Days

Through writing the book I became more interested in systems, workflows, and the stuff happening behind the scenes.

That eventually pulled me into software. Now I build websites, tooling, and operational systems that are designed to stay maintainable long after launch.

Music still takes up a big part of my life too - especially composition learning, and writing.

Illustrated portrait of Ben Spooner

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