Without Covid-19 interrupting the typical workflow of Hannah and Nick Ippolito’s web design business at the start of 2020, the two may never have had the opportunity to create SquareKicker – and life would certainly look very different right now for the Nelson-based couple.

Redwood Valley couple Hannah and Nick Ippolito used the time being house-bound during lockdown to turn a long-lingering idea into a reality.

The reality, a web-design tool that does the hard, behind the scenes, coding for web designers, launched this week. And is busy acquiring interest internationally with big contenders in the web design arena.

Founder Nick Ippolito, a self-taught coder, was running his own web-design business when he hired Rowan Findlay to help him out. Covid lockdown happened and the idea for the tool that had been kicking around in Nick’s head for over a year began to take form.