Relief fund · March 2020
Dharma Relief
Built and launched in a day. In seven weeks the fund carried $649,555 in donations and sent 1.2 million masks to 173 hospitals.
Source · Dharma Relief reportdharmarelief.org
The work
Made with the people whose names are on it
Every site here is live. The figures come from the public record, with their sources.
Private tours · Maui · 2024
Hawaii By Storm
The website for a private tour company on Maui: the tours, booking and reviews. Rated 4.9 across 872 reviews on Google, Tripadvisor and Yelp.
Source · Google, Tripadvisor and Yelp, read October 2026hawaiibystorm.com
Tour marketplace · Maui Marketing · 2022
HawaiiTours.com
Operations, the website and the marketing for a tours marketplace covering every island, from June 2022.
Cancer wellness programs · Wilson, Wyoming · 2026
Wild Country
Moved off a rented site builder onto a site the organization owns outright. Live since 3 October 2026.
Coaching · since 2017
Evolutionary Education
Two WordPress installs became one site the owner controls: nine pages, with 131 checks passing on the last audit. The longest-running site I look after.
What I do
Design. Marketing. Technology. One orbit.
Design
A site that reads clearly on any phone and looks like the work behind it. Type, color and layout chosen for you, not taken from a template.
Marketing
Words that sound like you, pages that search engines can read, and an email list that belongs to you.
Technology
Domain, hosting, email and the systems behind them, set up so they keep running when no one is watching.
How I work
Done with you. Owned by you.
You work with me directly
One person from the first call to the last fix. You talk to the person doing the work.
You own it
Your domain, code, data, list, logins and media are in your name. You can leave with all of it.
It keeps running
Plain files, written by hand. Nothing to update, nothing to renew. I learned hosting on Bluehost’s WordPress team in 2016, where simple decisions made early prevent most problems later.
Ways to work together
The Tree of Life
Seven rungs, from a first session to the work that runs a business. Move slow and grow things.
SELF
$333 once
Your start: you, your tools and your site, set up with me.
SEED
$1,111 once
Ready for a YC application, or online to make a living.
SAPLING
$3,333 once
A full website, like Hawaii By Storm.
SEQUOIA
From $5,555
Hands-on work that produces an outcome, like Dharma Relief.
ROOTS
$9 a month or $108 a year
Hosting, in place of SiteGround, GoDaddy or Bluehost.
SAPPHIRE
$99 a month
For teams and businesses.
STAR
Free forever
Open source.
Prices as of 19 October 2026. Every rung starts with a conversation: write to me.
The record
Ten years in November 2026
Born in Atlanta in 1990. On computers since five, on the web since school, working for myself since 2017, on Maui since 2020.
2010
As rblion on Hacker News: 114 posts in one summer, including a Show HN for a first company, LivGiv.
Source · Hacker News
2016
Bluehost’s WordPress team in Orem, Utah. goodvibes.me registered in November.
2017
Working for myself. The longest-running site I look after begins, and it is still running.
2020
On Maui from May. Dharma Relief, built in a day.
2020 to 2023
Hospitality across Maui: Maui Eco Retreat, Maui Brewing, Maui Pacific Tours, Andaz, Blue Hawaiian, Hotel Wailea and Morimoto’s Maui.
2022
Maui Marketing: operations, web and marketing for HawaiiTours.com.
2023
Kauaʻi: concierge at the 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay.
2024
Hawaii By Storm.
2026
Hanalei Charters and Hanalei Surf School: the office, reservations and the shuttle. Back on Maui in June. Wild Country goes live in October.
Also from goodvibes.me
What I am building next
- WA\
- Own a piece of the internet.
- Maui Gaia
- A lifestyle brand from Maui.
- Healeakala
- Gatherings and retreats on Maui.