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Sunwave Studio · No. 1 · Fall 2026
- PrologueReading, Pennsylvania1
- Part OneAbout2
- Part TwoServices5
- Part ThreeWebsites & software7
- Part FourProcess9
- Part FiveOwnership11
- Part SixOperation Floating Sunshine13
- Part SevenMore of my work16
- MailLetters20
SUNWAVE STUDIO No. 1, Fall 2026. Published by Sunwave Studio, Reading, Pennsylvania. Written,
lettered and coded by Chance Peragine. Illustrations were generated with image models
from the author’s art direction, then inked, halftoned and finished in code.
Letters: hello@sunwave.studio.
Reading, Pennsylvania.
I’m Chance Peragine, the builder behind Sunwave Studio.
You work with me directly, from the first conversation to the handover.
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Part One
About
Who you work with
You work with me,
start to finish.
I’m Chance Peragine.
2I have spent more than a decade building software, and Sunwave Studio is where I do that work for other people.
3Based in Reading, PAWorking with businesses across Berks County, Lancaster County and the Lehigh Valley, and in person when that helps.
Honest about fitIf an off-the-shelf tool or a change to the process would do the job, you will hear that before you spend anything.
Easy to reachSend a message or call. I’ll reply within one business day.
4Part Two
Services
Websites, apps and tools
Fix what is stuck.
Build what is missing.
Rescue a stalled site or app, build a new one, or take a repetitive job off your team’s plate.
Website & app rescue
Finish a stalled website or app, starting from an honest look at the code you already have.
I identify what works, what needs attention and what is worth keeping, then price a practical route to completion.
What is in it, and what it costs →Custom software & internal tools
Replace the spreadsheets, messages and manual steps your team works around with one tool built for the job.
Scheduling, inventory, quoting and review flows, with clear permissions and data you can export.
What is in it, and what it costs →
Small business web design
A distinctive, mobile-friendly site that explains what you do and makes the next step obvious.
Choose a focused one-page site or a larger site you edit yourself, with the domain and hosting in your name.
What is in it, and what it costs →Nonprofit websites
A site that tells your story, publishes updates and takes donations into accounts your organization controls.
Volunteers get a publishing workflow they can manage, and public wording stays within what your organization approves.
What is in it, and what it costs →App & MVP development
A focused first version of your app, built around the one journey that matters most.
We agree the audience, platform, must-haves and release plan, then build something you can put in front of people.
What is in it, and what it costs →Business automation
Connect the tools you already use, so the copying, chasing and re-typing happen on their own.
An inquiry becomes a job, a finished job prepares an invoice, a deadline sends a reminder. Anything that touches money or customers waits for a person to approve it.
What is in it, and what it costs →Not sure which of these you need?
Tell me what your team needs → 6Part Three
Websites & software
Websites, apps & software
Priced before
we start.
Every project starts with a written plan and a fixed price.
Prices and timescales
| The job | Price | How long |
|---|---|---|
| A one-page site | $1,500 – $3,000 | 2–3 weeks |
| A business site with a CMS you edit yourself | $4,000 – $12,000 | 4–6 weeks |
| A nonprofit or corporate site with store, donations or recurring payments | $4,000 – $9,000 | 4–6 weeks |
| Automating a job done by hand | $2,500 – $8,000 | 2–4 weeks |
| A custom internal tool | $15,000 – $50,000 | 2–4 months |
| An app or first version, one platform | $25,000 – $70,000 | 3–5 months |
| A multi-platform application | from $60,000 | set in the Build Plan |
| Taking over a half-built project | Code Review first, $3,000 | 2 weeks |
Prices set 1 August 2026.
These are prices for websites and software. See AI service prices.
Build fees are one-time project costs, not a website rental. Domain renewal, hosting, payment processing and any paid tools are separate and billed to your own accounts.
8Part Four
Process
How a project runs
Plan first.
Then build.
You do not need a specification. Bring the problem and the people it affects, and we will shape the plan together.
1A conversationTell me what you need and what already exists. The first conversation commits you to nothing.
2A written planScope, price, timeline and exclusions, agreed in writing before any work begins.
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3Work you can seeYou see the work as it develops, including the trade-offs and anything still unfinished.
4Launch and handoverYou approve a private preview, then everything is handed over in your own accounts.
10Part Five
Ownership
What you own
You own
what you pay for.
Code, accounts and data stay in your name, so you can carry on with or without me.
Ownership
- The work
- On final payment, the custom code, design, content and data are yours: assigned, not licensed.
- The accounts
- Domain, hosting, email and payments are in your name and on your billing from day one. I do not resell hosting.
- The code
- It lives in your repository from the first commit, so another developer can pick it up at any point.
- The data
- Anything the project stores comes with a documented export you can run yourself.
Ownership, continued
- After launch
- Thirty days of fixes are included for anything that misses the agreed scope. After that, support is $125 an hour with no minimum, and a site that is down gets a response the same business day.
- Reusable parts
- My reusable components stay mine, with a permanent free license for you and any developer you hire. Third-party software keeps its own license.
- Ending support
- There is no minimum term and no cancellation fee; either side gives thirty days’ notice. Ending support never switches your site off.
- If I am unavailable
- If you cannot reach me for ten business days, give your accounts, code and notes to another developer and carry on.
Part Six
Operation Floating Sunshine
Good work, with a human purpose
Live
public
A few minutes of sunshine. A simple gift. A small, bright reminder floating into hard places that joy can still find you. — floatingsunshine.com/mission
A joyful public website its owner runs from a phone. Posts, photographs and Instagram content are prepared in a Telegram chat, checked in a private preview and published with one tap.
Designed and developed by Sunwave founder Chance Peragine as a pro-bono nonprofit project. Displayed with permission.
Visit floatingsunshine.com ↗ 13Operation Floating Sunshine
How it was built
What they needed
More time for the mission. Less time managing a website.
The brief called for a place to share community stories and photographs, an update workflow for a nontechnical owner, and infrastructure for future giving. The public wording also needed to respect the organization’s stated legal boundaries.
What was built
A joyful website. A practical publishing system.
A live website with editable content, a built Stripe integration and a Telegram publishing workflow. The owner describes an update and sends photographs; draft text and photo descriptions return for review. The same chat makes Instagram reels and story cards. Behind it all, a Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud back office now runs in production, fed from the organization’s existing CRM every five minutes.
Case file
- /update
- A post on the site’s Updates page — title, date, story, photographs — shown as a private preview and published only on ✅ Publish it.
- /aiupdate
- Describe what happened and send the photographs; it writes the post and the photo descriptions, then asks for the same tap.
- /create
- An Instagram reel, one question at a time, ending in buttons that nudge the look.
- /poll, /request
- Story cards that ask followers what to feature next. Their answers become the following week’s posts.
- /remind
- A nudge on posting days, so you don't lose the rhythm.
Why the details matter
Creative freedom, with a deliberate final check.
Every publishing flow ends in a private preview before the owner taps approve. The checkout was built behind a default-off switch, with tests checking the gate. Content tests also reject prohibited legal wording. These checks support the people responsible for the decisions; they do not replace their judgment.
The result is a website the owner can keep alive themselves: tell the story, send the photographs, review the draft and publish. That everyday usefulness matters as much as the first impression.
Ask about Operation Floating Sunshine → 15Part Seven
A little more sunshine.
More of my work
Personal projects, not client commissions.
Case 1
Two Bears and a Baby
Live
public
An entirely unreasonable sticker store: two bears in patterned shirts, a department for every decision, and settings for reduced motion, larger text and stronger contrast.
Best visited before reading anything else about it.
Visit twobearsandababy.com ↗ 16Case 2
Spatial Review
Built
not public
A phone-first tool for reviewing 3D models: tap a part, pick the moment in its animation and describe the change. Every revision is kept beside the original, never written over it.
Private and self-hosted.
Case 3
nado
Built
not public
The messaging system my own working day runs on, built so that a crash, even halfway through saving, cannot lose a message or handle it twice.
In daily use. Not a product.
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Wordlitaire
In development
An original word game that plays solitaire with words, with the same daily board for every player.
Coming soon. The site is up, but the game cannot be played there yet.
See wordlitaire.com ↗Case 5
Job Board
Built
not public
A private job-search tool. It ranks openings, explains each score with its sources, and drafts applications for a person to review.
For personal use. A person presses submit every time, and it has no automated tests.
18Case 6
Slop Mafia
Built
not public
A party game where people hide among AI players.
Each match runs on a fixed budget of AI usage, shown on screen as fuel, and can be switched off at any moment.
Private alpha, locally self-hosted.
19Letters
Write to the author · Reading, PA
What should work better?
Tell me about the work and who does it today. It commits you to nothing, and I’ll reply within one business day.
Chance
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