Who's behind it
A real person builds it, and answers when it breaks.
DebugDad is one person: me. I build the site, I host it, and I'm the one who replies when you email or call.
I'm Christian Chenault.
I'm a senior-level front-end engineer. My day job is building production software for a Fortune 500 company on a U.S. Air Force contract. I've also worked as a front-end engineer at Amazon, and spent time building a product in the startup SaaS world. Three very different environments, one constant: ship code that actually works, not code that just demos well.
Every project in the portfolio runs on the same stack that runs this business: React and Next.js for the interface, TypeScript so a typo becomes a build error instead of a bug your customers find, Tailwind CSS for styling, PostgreSQL for anything that has to be remembered, and Stripe for anything that touches money. You're looking at that same stack right now.
And the name isn't a bit: I have a daughter already keeping me on my toes, and a son due later this year.
The part that isn't a form letter
What happens when something goes wrong
You email or call a person
Not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not a contractor three time zones away. Support is my inbox and my phone, and I'm the one answering.
I make the change myself
Text and photo changes are free for the first 30 days, and so are the first 4 bigger changes, like a new page. After that it's billed at the rate on the pricing page, never a surprise.
You own it
The site is yours once final payment clears, and the domain is always registered in your own name, from day one.
Time away doesn't cost you
I take time off like anyone. When I do, it's announced in advance, and any open project's timeline moves with it.
Why the prices are published
Agencies quote per project because every project is a negotiation, which means the price depends on how the call goes, and you never quite know whether you got the good number. I'd rather you know the price before you ever talk to me: hourly for a simple build, a flat fee plus $40/mo maintenance for a bigger one, both published on the pricing page, the same for everyone.
If your project genuinely needs something outside that menu, I'll tell you before you sign anything, not after.
Bigger than a website?
Some jobs are bigger than a marketing site: a booking system, a marketplace, an admin dashboard, an internal tool. Those are quoted the same way, and the portfolio is where they live.