Bakery demo
Warm editorial layout—story, menu energy, “this week” board. Stand-in photos and copy you can imagine swapping for yours.
See it in action
Sample websites, a note on owning your stack (VPS rent vs a box you keep), and local tools below. Wall signage as a project starts on Digital signage →.
Bar demo
Loud, fun, drink-forward—good for a taproom or cocktail spot vibe. Same structure idea, different personality.
Your code belongs to you
Year-one sketch: renting a cloud VPS vs a small computer you own—where your site and data live, the tradeoffs, and how we use open tools.
Local & open—on your LAN
Plenty of people want a calmer shop network or a smart light that doesn’t phone home—but the install docs assume you live in terminals. We can help you start small: a box on the shelf, a few devices, clear handoff.
Home Assistant
Home Assistant is open-source home (and shop) automation: local control, dashboards on a tablet, lights, sensors, cameras—your hardware, your rules. Cloud is optional, not required.
We can stand up a simple HA setup on a Pi-class or small PC, walk you through adding a few things you care about, and leave you with documentation so you or another tech can extend it later.
Pi-hole
Pi-hole is a network-wide DNS sinkhole—open source, runs locally. On a guest or shop Wi‑Fi, it can cut down junk domains, sketchy redirects, and noisy trackers so browsing feels cleaner and a bit safer (it’s not a substitute for real security policy, but it’s a practical layer).
For a small business, that often means less garbage on the guest network and fewer “fat finger” malware landing pages—without paying a subscription to a middleman for basic DNS filtering. There’s no public hosted demo—the admin UI is on your own network once it’s running.
Other self-hosted ideas
Same pattern applies: open license, runs on a box you own—media (Jellyfin), photos (Immich), docs, password vault for the team, internal dashboards. If you’ve heard the name but can’t get past step three of the README, that’s a fine reason to call.
Try the UIs: Jellyfin live demo · Immich live demo (Immich uses their shared demo login on the page)
We stay in our lane—no card networks, no messing with payment Wi‑Fi—but guest Wi‑Fi, signage screens, and a home-assistant or Pi-hole box on the non-payment side of the house are fair game.