Solve a real problem
Start with something people actually have to deal with, not a feature looking for a reason to exist.
About Simply Works
Simply Works LTD builds straightforward software for UK solo professionals — people doing the work, dealing with customers and running the business themselves.
The idea behind Simply Works
A lot of small-business software starts simple and slowly turns into a huge system full of things most people never asked for.
Simply Works takes the opposite approach: find a real job that is annoying, repetitive or easy to forget, then build the smallest useful tool that makes that part easier.
The goal is in the name: software that simply works.
Start with something people actually have to deal with, not a feature looking for a reason to exist.
Good software should make the job clearer, not introduce a new pile of terminology and settings to manage.
New features should exist because they make the core job better — not because a SaaS product is expected to have them.
Why Simply Link exists
Simply Link started with a very ordinary problem: once the work is finished, someone still has to ask for payment, remember who owes what, check whether they paid and follow up when they forget.
The payment itself is only one moment. The admin around it is the bit that keeps hanging around.
The problem in plain English
“I did the work. I should not have to feel awkward asking to be paid.”
An anonymised comment from a UK solo-business Facebook discussion. It is an example of the problem, not a Simply Link customer testimonial.
Simply Link gives that payment admin somewhere else to live.
Create the request, share it, track what is still due and let the system help with the remembering afterwards.
Built in Cornwall
I’m the founder of Simply Works LTD and the person building Simply Link.
I started Simply Works because I like software that has a clear job. Not another platform you have to organise your whole business around — just practical tools that remove a bit of friction and then get out of the way.
Simply Link is the first proper expression of that idea: helping solo professionals deal with the admin between finishing the work and getting paid.
Keep it focused
It just needs to do its part well.
Software that simply works
Start with one real payment request and see whether Simply Link makes the bit after the job feel simpler.
Create your first payment request