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Gatsby Freelancer: Jere Huttunen

I'm a Gatsby freelancer with 4+ years of experience with Gatsby. I have been using it since v2, and still use it daily.

I provide Gatsby freelancing through my own company, Vaihe, a modern web development studio located in Finland.

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MD-Logica logoMD Logica

MD Logica is a medical marketing agency based in California.

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The team at Vaihe Media seamlessly adapted to our workflow, allowing for a smooth and collaborative experience. Jere (Founder at Vaihe) in particular is very reliable and an absolute pleasure to work with. We've worked with several developers, but Vaihe is one of the select few partners that actually delivers quality results in a timely manner. It's not easy finding good JAMstack developers nowadays, and their ability to offer solutions, especially in time-critical situations, has been impressive.

– Vahe Tirakyan, CEO

Visit MD Logica: MDLogica.com

Purposemed logoPurposeMed

PurposeMed builds platforms that connect patients with specialized clinicians so they can receive compassionate healthcare from the comfort of their home.

We have built them now three sites: their company site PurposeMed, Frida, and Foria.

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It isn’t often that you find a team that understands UX (including accessibility needs), technical SEO, and writes great code. Vaihe Media's services have been an invaluable asset to our development, product, & marketing teams and I’d highly recommend them to anyone looking to increase their web development capabilities without sacrificing on quality.

– Pavel Okulov, Head of Growth, Frida

Visit Purposemed: PurposeMed.com

Buddy Healthcare logoBuddy Healthcare

Buddy Healthcare develops an award-winning care coordination & patient engagement platform.

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We required a technical website upgrade that would enable our marketers a way to create content by themselves without needing developers' continous help.

Vaihe Media identified exactly what we needed and delivered a perfect solution for our use-case while maintaining smooth communication with us.

– Buddy Healthcare

Visit Buddy Healthcare: BuddyHealthcare.com

Spotless Laser logoSpotless Laser

Spotless laser is a skincare company with two physical locations in Canada, and an online store.

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Read case study: Bringing e-commerce to Jamstack for Spotless Laser

Visit Spotless: SpotlessLaser.com

WorkED logoWorkED

WorkED provides unique learning experiences by providing programs that give meaningful insight to careers that those who are still looking for a career will appreciate.

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Vaihe Media has been a joy to work with on our projects. We wanted clean, high-performance code that fits within a scalable and secure architecture and were struggling to find a development company that shared our vision, until we started working with Vaihe. Their methodology is brilliant and we trust them to work autonomously on our projects. We truly appreciate their ability to grasp our business problems and work on solutions.

– Jesse Aujla, CEO

Read case study: Building a highly scalable headless Jamstack site for WorkED

Visit WorkED: Worked.com

Butterfly London logoButterfly

Butterfly is a London-based marketing consultant agency.

We built their site using a headless and static site generation technology.

Visit Butterfly: Butterfly.London

Lean Digital Agency logoLeal Digital Agency

Lean Digital is a digital agency based in United States.

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Vaihe Media is amazing. We've contracted the company for a very last-minute (and expectedly urgent) project, and Jere (Founder at Vaihe) was a rock-star. What I really appreciated is how our project was treated not simply as a one-off job, but I could tell how a lot of thought and planning went into every single step along the way. Jere provided some extremely valuable advice on how to approach our challenges, was very technical and delivered everything in the agreed timeframe. In the end - the project was a massive success on all fronts.

One of the qualities that I feel is a must have for any agency is responsiveness and I'm happy to say that Vaihe Media and Jere are always there when I need them. Jere answers my questions without delay, and is always transparent when there is more research needed — that is very much appreciated and gives me confidence that I found the perfect partner! I am happy to recommend Jere and Vaihe Media to anybody looking to fulfill any web development work, and I will be using them in the future no doubt!

– Kirill, Founder

Visit Lean Digital Agency: LeanDigitalAgency.com

Sintrol logoSintrol

Sintrol is a global manufacturing and solution-offering company in the field of analyzers and measuring devices.

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Vaihe Media provided us search engine optimization and maintenance required by our new website. Smooth collaboration and quickly provided services!

– Susanna Kallio

Visit Sintrol: Sintrol.com

M-XR logoM-XR

M-XR is a UK-based company providing 3D scans technology and materials.

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Vaihe Media provided us with web development for our Gatsby site. Their work is efficient, thorough and the communication is great. Jere is a real pleasure to work with and I look forward to continue our partnership as we set out to build more amazing digital experiences. We Would highly recommend Vaihe to anyone with web development needs, especially with Jamstack.

– Ryan Howell, M-XR

Visit M-XR: M-XR.com

ticketbro logoticketbro

ticketbro provides a mobile ticket booking system, we built their marketing site with focus on animations and interactivity.

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The website Vaihe Media developed for us is an absolute masterpiece, with eye-catching animations and interactive elements that really captivate our visitors. Not only is the website aesthetically pleasing, and makes navigating our product pages a fun experience, but they also made it incredibly easy for the team to work in maintaining and growing it.

Working with Vaihe was a pleasure from start to finish. From the beginning of the project, Jere (founder at Vaihe) showed a remarkable level of professionalism and passion for his craft. He took the time to understand our company’s vision and goals, and his ability to translate our ideas into a fully functional website was remarkable.

Throughout the development process, Jere demonstrated exemplary communication skills, keeping us informed at all times and enthusiastically incorporating our feedback. He was incredibly responsive to our ideas and also offered valuable suggestions to improve the customization and maintenance of our website, helping to make it accessible even for team members who are not familiar with coding themselves, which really demonstrated his expertise in the field.

I cannot recommend Vaihe highly enough for anyone looking to create a top-notch website that leaves a lasting impression on visitors. We are very grateful for their contribution to the success of our company and look forward to keep collaborating with them.”

– Tania, ticketbro

Read case study: Building ticketbro’s marketing site with a focus on animations and interactivity

Visit ticketbro: ticketbro.com

Conduktor

Conduktor builds and manages an enterprise Apache Kafka interface platform.

We helped Conduktor create the foundation for their website back in 2021, which has gotten a design revamp since then.

Visit Conduktor: Conduktor.io

Ensemble logoEnsemble

Ensemble helps businesses design, build and run advanced data and analytics solutions.

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We hired Vaihe Media for React/Gatsby development. Jere from Vaihe is an outstanding and professional developer. He has supported us on a number of frontend projects with demanding requirements and usually at late notice. The results are always pixel perfect and correct first time. We look forward to working together again!

– Benjamin Wootton

Visit Ensemble: EnsembleAnalytics.io

WA.nl logoWA.nl

WA provides information on insurances and legalities in the Netherlands.

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Vaihe Media's communication is great and smooth. Considering we are both performance junkies, we're always on the same page – and that is what I love about our partnerships. I will be working with them for years to come. Considering I have lots of experience in the SEO world, I know it's not easy to find a good partner, so Vaihe comes highly recommended.

– R. de Waard

Read case study: Using JamStack to scale with WA.nl

Visit WA: WA.nl

Frida logoFrida

Frida helps people with ADHD get the help they deserve by providing ADHD diagnosis, ongoing care and helpful articles based on ADHD information.

We built their whole website in a way that enables their marketing and content creation team to freely build pages and content without restrictions.

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It isn’t often that you find a team that understands UX (including accessibility needs), technical SEO, and writes great code. Vaihe Media's services have been an invaluable asset to our development, product, & marketing teams and I’d highly recommend them to anyone looking to increase their web development capabilities without sacrificing on quality.

– Pavel Okulov, Head of Growth

Visit Frida: TalkWithFrida.com

Hatchet logoHatchet

Hatchet is a digital agency based in Perth, Australia.

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It has been an absolute pleasure having Jere (Founder at Vaihe) complete some custom software development work on a GatsbyJS website. He was proficient, well spoken and timely in resolving the issues that were faced. His technical skills excelled my expectations. I am looking forward to working with him again on future projects.

– Daniel Gouvignon

Visit Hatchet: Hatchet.com.au

BEN Energy logoBEN Energy

BEN Energy is a software company that engages utility companies with residential clients.

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I can wholeheartedly recommend working with Vaihe Media. They did a great job migrating our Gatsby website and adding new functionality. They provided us with detailed and reliable estimates, adapted flexibly to any project scope changes, and proactively found solutions to overcome unexpected challenges. We're very much looking forward to working with them in the future.

– Tanja Rüegg, Project Manager

Visit BEN Energy: BEN-Energy.com

Hailer logoHailer

Hailer develops and mainstains their own modular work management software and app

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Working with Vaihe Media is easy. Their service is high quality, professional and deliveries are possible even with quick timelines.

– Varpu Jokinen

Visit Hailer: Hailer.com

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It has been an absolute pleasure having Jere complete some custom software development work on a GatsbyJS website. He was proficient, well spoken and timely in resolving the issues that were faced. His technical skills excelled my expectations. I am looking forward to working with him again on future projects.

Hatchet logo– Daniel Gouvignon, Hatchet

Let's build you the perfect Gatsby site

Contact via email: jere@vaihe.com

Learn more about me and my Gatsby development

About me

Hey, my name is Jere! I am 26 years old and I live in a small and quiet city in Finland. I provide development worldwide, so your location doesn't matter.

When I am not working, I am probably either bowling, cycling, cooking, skiing, gardening, or doing hobby projects.

I also do photography from time to time. I especially like to do astrophotography, I have taken some quite nice pictures of of the galaxies, star formations, and gasses in the nightsky.

My rates

I charge 55€/h for Gatsby development, but I usually prefer fixed prices on new projects. Contact me for a quote!

What CMSs I have experience with and can connect to Gatsby

I have used the following headless CMS services or platforms:

  • Contentful
  • Storyblok
  • Dato CMS
  • Prismic
  • Agility
  • Strapi
  • Directus
  • WordPress
  • Shopify (for headless eCommerce)

With Gatsby I would go with Storyblok, or if you want to self-host the CMS, then Directus.

Fullstack Gatsby development

Gatsby is mainly a front-end framework, but it has backend capabilities too. I happen to be quite good at those! Thanks to Gatsby's Node.js core, it can be used as a fullstack framework. I have plenty of fullstack experience with Gatsby, for example using Node.js streams and custom file generations.

Which CMS do I recommend to use

Unless you have some very special needs with your website, I recommend you checking out Storyblok. It is extremely powerful and easy CMS for managing a website without developer's continous help. Your content writing and marketing team can edit the site freely on their own, and see the changes on real-time.

How I got started with Gatsby

Before using Gatsby, I used to do static sites just by writing HTML + CSS + JS files. After finding Gatsby when it just released its v2 version, I instantly fell in love with it, as it allowed me to use modular approach to static sites, and React makes writing interaction-heavy sites much more enjoyable.

Before Gatsby, I wasn't too interested in React as I built my sites with focus on SEO and loading speeds, and React's JavaScript nature was hurting both of those. With Gatsby, I was able to use React to its full potential with focus on static generation.

What's my preferred way of communication

Initial messages are best via email (jere@vaihe.com) or the form below. Usually after that I like using Slack with my clients. I like keeping my meetings and video calls to a minimum as I prefer written communication.

It's 2023, do I still recommend Gatsby?

Nowadays I use more Next.js than Gatsby on new projects, but most of my existing projects are still on Gatsby. I recommend either one of them, but the further development of Gatsby seems to be slowing down after Netlify bought it.

Using Gatsby on a new project is still not a bad idea though, it's still very powerful tool and happens to get slightly better client-side performance than Next.js.

I also provide Next.js freelancer services, so I'm a safe choice with either!

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Working with Jere was a pleasure from start to finish. From the beginning of the project, Jere showed a remarkable level of professionalism and passion for his craft. He took the time to understand our company’s vision and goals, and his ability to translate our ideas into a fully functional website was remarkable.

ticketbro logo– Tania, ticketbro