Shane Hudson

Health‑tech by day,
creative indie apps by night.

Over fifteen years of making software, many in health-tech, I like being close to the people who use what I build. Sitting in research sessions, reading reviews, understanding what actually matters before writing a line of code.

I also make various things in my spare time, including Value Study an indie app for artists. I care about accessibility, performance, and putting the user first.

Case study

NHS 111 Online

From pilot to a live national service with millions of completed urgent healthcare triages per year.

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Cera

Building the Digital Care Platform for staff in the UK's largest home-care service, and the iOS app that keeps families in the loop.

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Health-tech product delivery

NHS, clinical systems, patient-facing apps. I've helped to build software where it actually is life or death. Robust quality and user experience are critical.

Engineers in research

I strongly believe every person in a product team should be involved in user research at least occasionally. I've learned more from sitting in research sessions than from any other activity.

Indie developer

Value Study has a 4.8 out of 5 across over 4k ratings. I handle the whole process: design, native iOS and Android code, marketing, support.

Frontend & full-stack

I'm happy when I'm actively improving the experience for real users, whether that's writing React code, optimizing a database query, or fixing a CSS bug that's been annoying people.

Value Study

4.8★ · Thousands of users · iOS & Android

The art reference tool I built to improve my own art fundamentals. It's now used by art students and professional artists worldwide, recommended by teachers, and translated into multiple languages. I do everything: research, design, native development, marketing, support.

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The story so far

2025Lessons From Building an Indie App for Artists 2022Value Study: The Journey So Far 2021Introducing Value Study

Also building

Scale Study

Piano practice · MIDI · Privacy-first

Track which scales you play cleanly and how fast. Connects over MIDI or Bluetooth, processes locally, no ads.

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Cera Care

Day job · Senior Front‑end Engineer · UK health‑tech

Building the Digital Care Platform used across the UK's largest home-care service, and the iOS app that keeps families in the loop about their loved ones' care.

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