Two projects just went from ideas on a screen to live products with real URLs. The estate now has infrastructure that works.
There’s a difference between building something and shipping something. Building is comfortable — it’s private, it’s controlled, it’s full of potential that never has to be tested. Shipping is exposure. Shipping means someone can type a URL into a browser and judge what you’ve made. That happened twice this week.
TaxSnap and SEOBuddy are both live in production. Not holding pages. Not concepts. Working tools that people can use right now.
TaxSnap Goes Live
taxsnap.cc is the front door — a clean landing page built to explain exactly what TaxSnap does and why basic tax calculators aren’t enough. If you’re a sole trader earning over £50,000, you already know that HMRC’s own estimator barely scratches the surface. Student Loan repayments that come out of your Self Assessment. The High Income Child Benefit Charge that tapers between £60k and £80k. The 60% effective tax rate trap between £100k and £125k where your Personal Allowance gets clawed back £1 for every £2 earned. None of that appears on the tools most people use.
TaxSnap shows all of it. One forecast. Everything you owe.
The actual forecaster lives at ts.taxsnap.cc — a dedicated app with a tax forecast tool and a budget planner. Enter your income, your expenses, your student loan plan, how many children receive Child Benefit, and it calculates the full picture: Income Tax, National Insurance, student loan repayments, and the Child Benefit charge. Then it tells you what to set aside each month. The Monthly Tax Pot — the number that actually matters when you’re self-employed and nobody is deducting anything for you.
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment starts in April 2026 for anyone earning over £50,000. That’s not a distant policy announcement anymore. It’s happening. TaxSnap is built for that reality — 2026/27 rates confirmed, MTD-ready, designed for the people who are about to feel the regulatory shift most directly.
SEOBuddy Finds Its Home
SEOBuddy was built as a standalone AI search visibility platform — and it still is. But it now runs at seo.taxsnap.cc, sitting as a subdomain under the TaxSnap domain. That’s a deliberate architectural decision, not a compromise.
Subdomains share domain authority. Every page SEOBuddy indexes, every tool someone uses, every backlink it earns — it all feeds the root domain. TaxSnap gets stronger because SEOBuddy exists beside it. And SEOBuddy gets the credibility of sitting on established infrastructure rather than floating on an unlinked domain waiting for Google to notice.
The platform itself has grown since it was first deployed. It started as a niche blueprint generator — type a niche, get a site structure. It’s now a full AI search visibility toolkit: Meta Tag Analyser, AI Search Preview, Schema Validator, Snippet Generator, Page Speed Insights, and a blueprint engine that generates tailored SEO architectures using AI. All free. All live. All analysing real URLs, not mock data.
The Architecture So Far
💷 taxsnap.cc — landing page and front door
📊 ts.taxsnap.cc — the live tax forecaster and budget planner
🔍 seo.taxsnap.cc — SEOBuddy, AI search visibility platform
Three subdomains. One domain. Two functional products. This is what the early stages of a real digital estate look like — not a portfolio of ideas, but a network of tools that are live, connected, and working.
What This Means
The hardest part of any side project is the gap between “it works on my machine” and “anyone can use it.” Most projects die in that gap. They get 80% done and then sit in a folder while life gets in the way. These two didn’t.
TaxSnap exists because the existing tools are inadequate and the regulatory deadline is real. SEOBuddy exists because search visibility shouldn’t require a subscription to an enterprise platform. Both were built in spare hours around pub shifts, late at night, one feature at a time.
They’re not finished. They’ll keep evolving — more tools, better analysis, deeper integrations. But they’re live. They’re deployed. They’re working. And that matters more than any roadmap ever will.
The estate keeps building.