Sam Doidge

Continual improvement

About

I like to think of ideas and execute them. I continually look to learn and I try not to impose limits on myself.

Recently I’ve worked on Property Wisdom - a site providing key data to help people make the best investments in the UK property market.

Previously I was contracting at a UK investment fund, and before that developing a football simulation game. In a past life I developed a Bitcoin investment application, and worked at a cryptocurrency startup.

Projects

  • Football Club Owner - An iOS app now on the App Store. It’s a football management game with some unique elements, such as player rarities. It features the creation of an extensive match engine which gives realistic scores, taking into account each players ability rating. This was built with React Native, Typescript, Realm for storage, and Mocha for tests.

  • contentlord.com - A stream of content is fed from social websites and posted to social media platforms. A Slack integration allows for curation - the user can choose to post or ignore the content. Currently supports posting to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Powers Bitcoin Memes.

  • beforesteam.com - A price comparison site for Steam games. Millions of price points tracked. Records price history for thousands of games in multiple vendors and multiple currencies. ~40 IP’s used for polling data without hitting limits. Amazon S3 for image hosting, Cloudflare as a CDN at the front of it all.

  • freshfollowers.com - Based off of research into the best way to increase an Instagram following, this application gives the highest rate of acquisition for genuine followers based on their interests. This was not opened to everyone due to Instagram’ss strict acceptance policy.

  • fifatrader.com - This domain is now for sale. Automatically buy and sell players from EA’s FIFA at a users set prices. Has received 100’s of signups with no promotion.

  • pintbet.com - A site for sports betting tips which tracks real bookmaker odds and records user performance with play money.

  • thebuildingcompany.co - A local building company website hosted on Github, using a custom Jekyll theme and Cloudflare.

Contact

My email address is [email protected].

I can also be found on:

  • GitHub - Code for this site and other projects
  • Instagram - Occasional vanity

sam dubai Wrocław ‘17

Miscellaneous milestones

  • Freshers Men’s Eight - Bournemouth University Rowing Club

  • Middle School Chess Champion - Loughton School

  • Represented Denbigh School at UK Maths Challenge