Founder & CEO
Miguel Carneiro
Programmer since 11. Designer by instinct. Still the person who builds and looks after your site.
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About Reboot Websites
Part hacker.
Part artist.
Reboot Websites was started by a self-taught programmer with an eye for design. That mix is why our sites look spectacular and run like they were engineered, because they were.
Chapter one · Age 11
It started with electronics.
Miguel Carneiro taught himself to program electronics at the age of eleven. He learned how things work by building them, and he never stopped.
Chapter two · Age 23
Tracking police cars before GPS was GPS.
At 23, Miguel built a live vehicle-tracking system for SAPS in Port Elizabeth, years before positioning was something you could just switch on. The satellite signal was scrambled, so he cracked its encryption. It took two weeks, and he was one of only two people in South Africa who managed it.
Patrol cars ran custom software, sent their data over the TETRA radio network and appeared live on a map. Dashboard cameras read the plates of the cars ahead and checked them against national police databases on the spot. It made SABC news. It worked so well that the project was shelved.
- ServersC++
- In-car unitsVisual Basic 6
- NetworkTETRA radio, digital-to-analogue links
- Live mapMapIT
- CamerasPlate reading, live lookups
- DataNational police databases
SABC news footage available on request
Chapter three · Since then
Prototypes, robotics and AI.
Since then he has worked on prototyping, robotics and AI projects. Through all of it, two skills kept rising to the top: hacking and artistic design. Reboot Websites is where the two meet.
Two skills, one studio
The hacker builds it. The artist makes people want it.
Most agencies are strong at one or the other. Every Reboot site gets both, on the same team, from the first sketch to the last line of code.
The hacker
Engineered properly
- Hand-built code, never a bloated template
- Security built in from the start
- Speed tuned from the server up
- Our own plugin, Reboot Addons, so we control the stack
The artist
Designed to stop the scroll
- One-off designs made for your business
- Motion and 3D that people remember
- A brand that feels like you, not a theme
- Easy for real customers to use
How we work
Plan first. Build smart. Stay on.
We don't make a great design and hand it off. We partner with you so the site keeps bringing in business while you run yours.
- 01
Plan
Before any design, we map your goals: who your customers are and what the site has to achieve.
- 02
Research
We find what your customers actually search for, and what your competitors are missing.
- 03
Design & build
Creativity and smart code together: a site that looks good, works smoothly and is easy to use.
- 04
Partner
Launch is the start. We keep your site fresh, found and turning visitors into leads.
Our strongest value
Family first.
We're a small team that works like a family, and every client becomes part of it. You get a partner who knows your business, answers when you call and genuinely cares whether your website works.
Let's talk
Let's build something
unignorable.
unignorable.
Tell us about your business. You'll hear back from the people who'll actually build your site.
Emailinfo@rebootwebsites.co.za
Studio31 Scorpia Street, Fishershill, Germiston