about
The person behind the demos.
Hi. I’m Owen Lyders, and I make websites and tools for local businesses: barbers, detailers, taquerias, boutiques, anyone whose customers live nearby and book, order or pay online.
This site is my portfolio, with a twist. Instead of screenshots of past work, the workshop holds working software. The booking calendar takes bookings. The checkout gets every sum right, down to the penny. The order tracker tracks. Each one is dressed as a small fictional business so you can see the thing your customers would see.
Every build is one pair of hands. I design it, I write the code, and I answer the email when it lands: within one business day, usually the same day. Nothing is handed off and nothing goes quiet after launch.
If one of the demos fits how your business works, the version with your name on it is what I build. The colophon shows the standards every build ships with, and the contact page reaches me directly.
How it works
A free 20-minute call
What you’ve got, what you need, whether I’m the right fit. No pressure.
I build it, you stay in the loop
You see progress every few days. You send photos and job details; I handle the words, design, and code.
Live in two to three weeks
Mobile-ready, Google-ready. I walk you through it on a call.
I stick around
Edits handled inside one business day. No long-term contract.
Fifteen questions to ask anyone building your site
What does a website cost?
A website is $179 each month with nothing down, $349 each month with the Front Desk bundle on top, or $3,900 once to buy it outright. The full breakdown, the add-on price and the money-back window are printed on the pricing page.
Who does the work?
Me. Owen Lyders, the person this page is about. The design, the code, the words and the support come from one chair, and no part of the job is handed to a team you never meet.
How long until it is live?
Plan on two to three weeks from our first call, with the date agreed by email before any money moves. The slow part is nearly always photos and job details, so the sooner those arrive, the sooner it ships.
Who owns the site when it is done?
You do. The domain is registered to you, the design and the words are yours, and on a monthly plan the complete code follows after month 18. Buy it outright and the code is yours from the start. None of it depends on staying a client.
What is the monthly fee paying for?
Hosting, the domain, the security certificate, every edit you send in, and support straight from me. There is no separate maintenance bill and no surprise line item. The one price past the plan is $75, once, if you ever want a page beyond the first five.
Do I have to write the words?
No. You send photos and the plain details of what you do; the writing, the layout and the code are my job. The one thing I cannot invent for you is a photograph of your work, so a phone full of before-and-afters is the best homework there is.
Will it look right on a phone?
It is built on a phone screen before it is built on a desktop one, because nearly every search for this kind of work happens on a phone. Big tap targets, quick loads on weak signal, and tested at phone sizes before anything else.
Will Google find it?
The parts of search I control are built in: a page per service, your towns in the page titles, markup Google reads, and a Google listing wired to match the site. Rankings also depend on your market and your reviews, so nobody honest sells you a position, and I do not.
What happens when I want changes?
Send an email. New photos, a price change, winter hours, another service: edits go live inside one business day, usually sooner, and none of it costs extra.
Can I change things myself?
If you want to make edits yourself, say so at the start and the build includes an editor and a walkthrough. Most owners find that emailing the change is quicker, and both roads stay open.
How many revisions do I get?
The design is not rationed. We go around until you would happily send a customer to the site, and pay on approval means a version you did not like has cost you nothing.
Will a new website bring in leads?
Anyone who quotes you a number before knowing your town, your trade and your competition is guessing. What a site reliably does is stop losing the searches already happening: the after-hours ones, the customer comparing three companies from the couch. If those searches exist in your area, a site that answers them well earns its keep.
What if I am unhappy, or want out?
Say so. Inside the first 90 days the money comes back, all of it. After that, leaving takes one email: your domain and your content go with you the same week, and after month 18 the complete code travels too. There is no exit fee and no awkward phone call.
Where do you work?
Anywhere in the US. The whole thing runs on email and video calls, and the site is shaped around the towns you serve rather than the town I sit in.
Have you built for trades businesses before?
The working demos on this site are my honest answer: a quote tool, a booking flow and an owner dashboard made for exactly this kind of work, running where anyone can press the buttons. The client list is young and the founding price says so; every case study that lands here will have real numbers behind it.