Strategy is easier to trust when you can see it working. These are recent builds, each one planned, written and built by InkByte: live data, plain words and, where it fits, a joke.
For New Brighton Creative Futures CIC
New Brighton has murals, beaches, pubs and a station at the end of the Merseyrail line. What it didn't have was one place to see what's open, when the next train goes and what's worth doing. So I built five small apps. They're free, with no ads and no sign-up. They share live train times, so every page answers the same question: how do I get here, and home again? And they point visitors' money at local businesses, with independents first and direct booking.
Built by InkByte for New Brighton Creative Futures CIC, pro bono, as part of my founder role.
TrainsLive departures and arrivals for New Brighton station, a next-train countdown, maps, fares and the station's history back to 1888. Live running from National Rail Enquiries.Open Trains
Enjoy73 pubs, bars, cafes and places to eat, what's open right now, the last train home and a 19-stop pub crawl.Open Enjoy
PlayTide times, beach weather, more than 40 murals, rock pooling and how to stay safe by the water.Open Play
ShopAll 72 shops in town, independents first, sorted by street, with what's open now.Open Shop
StayEvery hotel, guest house and B&B nearby, with direct booking links so the money stays in town.Open Stay
In the press. The Wirral Globe and Wirral Today covered the live train board when it launched in October 2026. Across all its work, New Brighton Creative Futures logged 86 press items in 28 publications between July 2025 and October 2026, including the Liverpool Echo and the Wirral Globe. All of it earned, none of it paid for.
Awards. Highly Commended for Best Creative Business at the Merseyside Independent Business Awards 2026, and shortlisted in two categories at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards 2026.
Built for fun, and to see how far open data and a sense of humour can go.
The UK kebab index
More than 10,000 kebab, döner and shawarma shops on one map. Who's open (even at 2am), food hygiene ratings, a league table of towns, and a Bössman who's been turning the same döner spit since 1987. Built on open data from OpenStreetMap and the Food Standards Agency.
Built by InkByte.
Open Bössman.liveThe UK Aggravation Threat Index
How close is Britain, right now, to kicking off? One live reading from 0 to 100, built from 40 live and modelled signals: Met Office storm warnings, petrol prices across 14 retailers, sewage spills, the latest football results, kebab orders per second, McFlurry machine availability and the phase of the moon. Seven levels run from Having a Brew to All Out Scrap. It's satire, and it says so.
“I think it’s an absolute masterpiece.”
Built by InkByte.
Open Is It Kicking Off?
I've written two books on digital culture: Social Media and the Seven Deadly Sins (2021) and MEME POWER (2024). The first took me on stage at Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival Conference, by Zoom.
Live data, plain words and something people want to share. Email me what you have in mind.
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