About.

I'm Chris Le Roux. I build websites, online stores and booking systems for South African businesses, and I write every line of them myself.

27+

Sites built and launched

15+

Clients across SA

16+

Online stores live

4+

Years building for the web

01The story

Where the
name comes
from.

Staz has been my name since I was a kid, long before it was a business. It started as a gaming handle, went through a few bad versions, and eventually got short enough to keep. The Z is for ZA.

Behind it, it is still just me. The person who quotes you is the person who builds your site and the person who answers when something needs fixing at half past eight on a Tuesday. There is no account manager in the middle, and nothing gets handed off to someone you have never spoken to.

I have been building for the web for a few years now, including working with the team at Evetech, one of the biggest online stores in the country, where I led the redesign of the whole site. That taught me a lot about what happens to a site when thousands of real people use it every day rather than five people in a meeting.

The rest of the time I build for smaller South African businesses, which I genuinely prefer. A salon that stops losing bookings, or a shop that can finally sell online without paying rent to a platform, changes something real for the person who owns it.

02What I do

What I'm good at.

01

Websites that get found

Business sites built in code, with Google Business, Maps and the technical SEO side done properly so customers can actually find you.

02

Online stores you own

Full storefronts with stock management, Payfast checkout and an admin panel simple enough to run from a phone. No monthly platform rent.

03

Booking and business systems

Live availability, appointments, enquiries and the admin screens behind them. Real systems, not contact forms pretending to be systems.

04

Software people pay to use

Multi-user products with accounts, billing rules and PDFs, like Faktura, my invoicing app built around South African VAT law.

05

Fixing what already exists

Slow, broken or dated sites, rebuilt or repaired on any platform, with the before and after measured rather than promised.

06

The whole stack

Frontend, backend, database, deployment. One person across every layer means nothing falls through the gaps between people.

03Toolkit

What I build
things with.

Tools are not the point, but the right ones make a site fast, cheap to run and easy to change later.

Frontend

ReactNext.js App RouterTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionAstro

Backend

Node.jsPostgreSQLPrismaMongoDBREST APIsAuth.js

South African plumbing

PayfastInstant EFTWhatsApp flowsZAR and VAT rulesLocal SEOGoogle Business

Shipping it

VercelNeonGit and GitHubCI/CDCore Web VitalsAnalytics
04The way I work

Straight prices, no disappearing act.

You get a real number

A fixed quote in rands before anything starts, and if the scope changes you hear it from me before the invoice does.

You own everything

Your domain stays in your name, your site is yours, and your data is yours. Nothing is held hostage if we ever part ways.

I stick around

Launch day is not the end of it. Hosting, updates and small changes carry on for a set monthly amount you agree upfront.

See what things cost

Let's build
something.

Tell me what your business needs and I'll tell you what it would take, honestly, even if the answer is that you do not need me yet.