Buying and selling used clubs in Australia was scattered across Gumtree, Facebook groups, and eBay. Quality was inconsistent, platforms charged hefty fees, and none of it was scalable.

Golf Slicers is the fix: a proper storefront for secondhand clubs, with the two flows the business actually runs on — Build a Bag bundle pricing and photo-based Trade Ins — built custom on top of Shopify.

The approach

Shopify is great for the commerce basics: checkout, inventory, payments, admin. But the unique parts of this business — bundle-your-own-bag pricing, photo-based trade-ins, an admin workflow that pays out store credit — aren’t things Shopify natively supports.

Building the storefront on Hydrogen (Shopify’s React framework) meant we could keep every commerce feature Shopify already does well and still ship fully custom, reactive flows where the business is actually different.

Each step shows only the stock that’s valid for that slot — driver, fairways, irons, wedges, putter, bag — and the running total updates as they build. The final bundle checks out as a single line so Shopify can apply the right discount and track it as one order.

Customers log in with their Shopify account, upload photos and details of the clubs they want to trade, and submit. The frontend is a React flow; the backend is a custom Shopify admin app that embeds inside the normal Shopify admin panel.

From that panel, staff review each submission, accept or reject it, and set a valuation. Accepting automatically issues the matching store credit to the customer’s account, which they can spend at checkout. Customers can see the status of every past trade-in from their account settings, so offers, acceptances, and credit balances all live in one place.

What else I built

• Storefront — product pages with faceted search, filters, and live stock from Shopify.
• Checkout — Shopify checkout with store-credit payment, including credit earned from trade-ins.
• Inventory — a custom spreadsheet pipeline that manages stock and imports it into Shopify’s format.

Astro Photobot is a roaming robot photobooth service for events. The client was just starting out: they needed a professional website, a way to capture enquiries, and a clean way to deliver event photos to customers afterwards — all on a budget that matches a new small business.

The interesting design decision wasn’t what to build. It was how little to build.

The approach

Cost and need were real constraints. The client didn’t need a booking engine, a CRM, or an admin dashboard: a simple website, a lead form, and a way to hand photos over after each event is what they really needed. Overengineering it would have wasted their money and left me maintaining infrastructure.

So the whole thing is deliberately small — existing tools wherever they already do the job, custom code only where the workflow actually differs from what exists.

Contact submissions go through an embedded HubSpot form. The client already uses HubSpot for the sales side, so leads land in the same inbox they already work from — no new tool to learn, nothing extra to maintain.

Each gallery sits behind a unique URL and is scoped to that event only, so sharing the link with guests works — but nothing else on the site is exposed. It’s the one genuinely custom piece of the system, and it’s small enough to maintain for free.