Small Business Solutions

Why We're Perfect for Small Business

Nobody understands small business like we do. Mostly because we are one. Here's why we're the ideal partner for your growing organization:

• We Get the Budget Thing: Your budget is $0? Incredible. So is ours. We've been operating on $0 since 2003. Our entire financial strategy is "ask Kevin's mom for pizza money." We are experts in doing a lot with nothing.
• We Understand the Struggle: You're wearing every hat? Same. Our president is also our CTO, CFO, head of marketing, and the person who refills the hand sanitizer. We run a 7-person organization with 14 job titles.
• Lean Operations: We have zero overhead. Literally. The school pays for the electricity and the WiFi (which doesn't work). Our office is a room we do not pay rent for. You cannot be leaner than free.
• No Contracts: We don't have contracts because we don't have a legal department. We don't have a legal department because we don't have a budget. It's a beautiful, self-sustaining ecosystem of having nothing.

The Small Business Package™

Introducing our Small Business Package — a carefully curated solution designed specifically for small businesses that need the confidence of a branded tier.

• What's Included: Everything we offer everyone else, which is the same thing, which is free. But now it says "Business" on it.
• Business Dashboard: It's the same webpage but we added a header that says "Business Dashboard" in Montserrat Bold. The data is the same. The font is more professional. That's the difference.
• Priority Support: Kevin answers your Slack message before he answers the other Slack messages. In practice, Kevin answers all messages at the same time (Wednesday at 3 PM), so this distinction is theoretical.
• Business Analytics: We will tell you how many people visited your project. The answer is usually between 0 and 3, and two of them are you.

Success Story: The Bake Sale Website

In October 2024, the Lincoln High School PTA approached us to build a website for the annual bake sale. This is what happened:

• The Brief: "Can you make a simple page with the date and a list of items?" We said yes. We should not have said yes.
• What We Built: A fully responsive, single-page application with a React frontend, a Node.js backend, a MongoDB database for cupcake inventory management, and a real-time bidding system for the brownies. The PTA asked for a flyer with a date on it.
• Launch Day: The site went live at 8:00 AM. By 8:03 AM, it had received 3 visitors (Kevin's mom, the principal, and a Google crawler). By 8:04 AM, it crashed. The server (Kevin's laptop) ran out of memory because we forgot to close VS Code.
• Outcome: The PTA went back to paper flyers. They did not ask us again. We consider this a successful deployment because the site technically worked for 4 minutes.
• Revenue Generated: The bake sale raised $847. None of it was because of the website. Mrs. Chen's lemon bars did all the heavy lifting.

"They were very enthusiastic. We will not be using them again." — Linda Chen, PTA Treasurer