Taking work for small businesses
Websites small businesses actually own.
Fast, self-hosted sites for local businesses — built properly, handed over completely. You buy the site outright. Hosting is a separate $300-a-year service you can cancel and still keep the website.
Built and running
Guido’s Pizza — two locations, Arizona
A family pizzeria whose prices on Google had gone stale years ago. Now the owner changes a price on her phone and the website updates instantly — and Google reads the menu straight off it.
- Menu she runs herself
- 42 items, sizes and prices, edited from a phone
- A separate staff app
- Installs to her home screen, opens on the editor
- Both locations, properly
- Own page, own hours, own listing for Google
- Hers to keep
- Code, content and logins hand over completely
What you get, and what you don’t
Included
- A site you own outright — code, content and logins
- An admin panel simple enough to run from a phone
- A staff app that installs to a home screen
- Set up properly for Google, Maps and search
- Automatic backups whenever anything changes
- A plain-English guide written for your staff
- One command to move it to any server, ever
Not included, on purpose
Online ordering built from scratch
Slice and Square already do it, cheaper and safer. I will help you set one up.
Fake reviews or review gating
Both violate Google policy and can get your listing penalised.
Lock-in of any kind
If you want to leave, everything moves with you in one archive.
What it costs, including the part most people hide
The build
Fixed price, quoted up front
An itemised written proposal with a payment schedule. Nothing starts until you accept it, and what you accept is recorded exactly as it read — so it cannot quietly change later. Paid once.
Keeping it running
$300 a year
Server space, the security certificate, nightly backups, small changes, and a real person answering the phone when something looks wrong. Your web address is about $15 a year on top, paid to the registrar in your name.
Yes, that’s a recurring cost. Here’s why it isn’t a subscription.
Cancel a Wix or Squarespace plan and your website disappears. You were renting it. Cancel mine and you keep the website. You get a single archive — the site, the code, your content, your photos and your admin login — that runs on any server, set up by anyone. I’ll hand it over and help you move it.
So the yearly fee buys you convenience, not permission. You are paying me to not have to think about servers. The day that stops being worth $300 to you, you take your site and go, and nothing goes dark.
One price, no tiers. It’s built for small businesses and priced for them. If a site ever grows into something genuinely bigger, that’s a good problem and we’ll have a conversation before anything changes — not a surprise on an invoice.
How it goes
- 01
We talk
You tell me what the business needs. I tell you straight whether a new site is the right spend.
- 02
You get a proposal
Fixed price, itemised, with a schedule. You accept it by typing your name.
- 03
You watch it happen
A private page shows what I still need from you and every draft page to comment on.
- 04
You own it
Logins, guide and full handover. It runs without me from day one.
Start a conversation
Tell me a bit about the business. No obligation, no sales sequence — and I’ll say so plainly if I’m not the right fit for what you need.