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.

I’m currently working on Property Wisdom - a site providing key data to help people make the best investments in the UK property market.

Previous I was contracting at a UK investment fund, and before that developing a football simulation game for the App Store. I have also developed a Bitcoin investment application, and worked at a cryptocurrency startup.

Outside of the internet some of my interests include: playing football, cycling, design and reading.

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.

  • textiler.com - A joint project where I was responsible for the development. Design & print custom digital fabrics. Makes use of canvas / fabric.js and node.js

  • 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

I can be emailed via [email protected].

You can also find me on:

  • Twitter - Occasional retweets
  • GitHub - Code for this site and other contributions
  • Instagram - Occasional vanity

sam dubai Wrocław ‘17

Misc Milestones

  • Freshers Men’s Eight - Bournemouth University Rowing Club

  • Middle School Chess Champion - Loughton School

  • Represented Denbigh School at UK Maths Challenge

My brother’s website: Tom Doidge