01
/ PrincipleBuilt slowly.
Good code, like a good chair, takes longer than you'd expect, and lasts much longer than you'd hope.
Founder · Meet the studio · Tielt & surroundings --:-- CET
Hello, I'm Jonathan.
I make websites that don't go stale.
Jovix is a one-person studio in Meulebeke, Belgium. I've been building for the web for over five years, at agencies, in-house, and now independently. The work is selective on purpose: fewer projects, more attention to each one.
5+Years building
3NL · EN · ES
1:1Founder-led
Jonathan Depaepe
signed
Lives in
Meulebeke, BE
Languages
NL · EN · ES
Years building
5+
Status
Available
A short manifesto
Three things I believe about good web work.
Not a methodology, not a framework. Just the principles I've kept after five years of shipping production sites.
02
/ PrincipleBuilt honestly.
No mock screenshots, no offshore handoff, no hidden charges. You speak to the person doing the work.
03
/ PrincipleBuilt to last.
Performance, accessibility, version control. Boring engineering virtues that matter most when nobody is watching.
A short journey
From student to studio.
- 2018
Software Engineering · Howest
Bruges. Three years of computer science fundamentals, languages, systems, the works.
- 2020
Front-end at agencies
Building production websites for clients. Learning the messy reality between brief and launch.
- 2023
Project lead
Leading small teams, scoping work, talking to stakeholders. Shipping at the seams of design and engineering.
- 2025
Independent · Jovix Studio
A one-person studio focused on websites and applications that age well. Selective by design.
The short version
Software engineer first, studio owner second.
I studied software engineering at Howest in Bruges. Then I went to work at agencies as a front-end developer and project lead, doing the messy bits between design and engineering. Today I run Jovix as a small studio of one, picking projects where craft still matters and where the people commissioning the work want to be involved.
5+
years building
the modern web
the modern web
" Direct contact, no middlemen, and code that ages well.
What I bring
Disciplines, in practice.
Generalist by necessity, specialist by inclination. The shortlist of what I do most days, in roughly the order I learned to do it.
01 Front-end engineering02 WordPress theming03 Vue & Nuxt apps04 Performance optimisation05 Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)06 CMS architecture07 API integration08 Version control09 Project leadership
Beyond the keyboard
When I'm not shipping.
I'm convinced that the best web work comes from people who do other things too: read, walk, cook, listen. So that's what I try to do, badly and often.
- Books over Twitter
- Coffee over hustle
- Long walks
- Vinyl, occasionally
- Cooking from scratch
Want to
work together?
The studio takes on a small number of projects each year. If yours sounds like a fit, I'd like to hear about it.