Portrait of David Rieu, full stack web developer and founder of Eqlo
Full stack web developer

David Rieu

Founder of Eqlo

I built Eqlo so that anyone, from a local shop to a nonprofit, can have a quality website and mobile app without knowing how to code. I put into it everything that years of web development and search optimization have taught me.

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My background as a full stack web developer

I'm a full stack web developer: I build a site's interface as well as its server and database. I did this work for many years for large companies, and as a freelancer for my own clients.

My expertise brings together two crafts that rarely talk to each other: code and search. SEO gets a site into Google, and GEO gets it cited in the answers of ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini. That combination is what let me launch Eqlo.

Eqlo, quality websites and mobile apps for everyone

A fast website that is built for Google and easy to run should not be reserved for companies with a technical team. That is why I launched Eqlo: you describe your project in one sentence, the AI builds the website or the mobile app, and Eqlo hosts it.

Each site gets its own admin to track orders, bookings, requests and members. The app can be tested on a phone with a simple link, then published to the App Store and Google Play on a paid plan.

So that as many people as possible can benefit, the Free plan lets you run five projects without a credit card. And the code stays yours: it can be exported on every plan.

Code and SEO built into every site

From the start, I chose not to let the AI write page code directly. It produces a structured description of the site, and a compiler turns it into pages with the same rules every time. Published pages therefore contain their text, headings and tags from the very first load, which makes them readable by Google and by AI engines alike.

What a search-minded developer would check by hand is automatic here: structured data, a sitemap, an llms.txt file for AI engines, lightweight images. Checks also block publishing when a page does not have exactly one H1 or an image has no description.

The exported code is a complete Next.js project, in React and TypeScript. Next.js is the technology I work with every day, and the one Eqlo itself is built on.

Areas of expertise

  • Full stack web development
  • Next.js and React
  • Search engine optimization (SEO)
  • Generative engine optimization (GEO)
  • Building websites and apps with AI

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