00 Helelai · Selected work

We design it. We build it. We ship it.

Custom Shopify themes, a live radio platform, an AI CRM product site, a WebGL artist site, an offline-first finance app. Ten projects, written by hand — no page builders, no templates.

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  • Shopify
  • Full-stack
  • WebGL
  • PWA
  • AI

01 Work

Ten projects. Every one of them live.

Shopify themes written from scratch, a live radio platform, an AI CRM product site, a WebGL artist site and an offline-first finance app — all 10 with a public URL you can open right now.

02 Services

15 things we can build for you.

Grouped by what they are, not by what they cost. Where a capability is demonstrated by one of the projects above, the card links straight to the proof.

A 04 services

E-commerce & Shopify

Stores written from scratch in Liquid — including the ones that sell without a checkout.

  • Custom Shopify themes

    Built from zero, with no Dawn or Horizon base and no page builder. Fast, unmistakable, and editable by the owner from the admin.

    Proof SaborCol
  • E-commerce & B2B catalogs

    Stores with a real checkout, or quote-first models where every button assembles a pre-filled quote in chat and no cart exists at all.

    Proof Souvenir ATX
  • Sites built for one industry

    Importers and distributors, restaurants, festivals and events, retail, services. Each one gets the flows its business actually runs on.

    Proof Sabor Colombia
  • Maintenance, support & compliance remediation

    Ongoing care, plus end-to-end catalog and content cleanup to resolve a platform review when a store gets flagged.

    Proof Supermarket Latino

B 04 services

Product & full-stack

Systems where a bug costs real money — built with tests, CI and rollback.

  • Custom full-stack platforms

    Web plus mobile (iOS/Android) plus infrastructure, wired into third-party APIs for accounting, payments and GPS, with CI/CD, automated testing and the quality discipline that domains handling money require.

    Proof Texas Latin Radio
  • Local-first, installable web apps (PWA)

    Apps that work with no connection and keep data on the device (IndexedDB), with optional cloud sync (Supabase + RLS), applied cryptography and AI features — plus product direction and AI-assisted development under rigorous QC.

    Proof MoneyCash
  • Process automation & integrations

    Forms and data-capture ecosystems on Google Workspace (Apps Script deployed with clasp): submission → database → notification email, bilingual, with no per-seat license fees.

  • Custom integrations

    WhatsApp commerce, generative AI in a commercial flow (Cloudflare Workers + Gemini), ordering portals, interactive maps, accounting and payment links.

    Proof Souvenir ATX

C 03 services

Creative front-end

The interactions that make a visitor stop scrolling — written by hand, not imported.

  • Creative front-end & interactive experiences

    Custom WebGL/GLSL, advanced SVG and CSS animation, high-finish artist and brand sites, and visual identity implemented as a code system — token-driven rebrands with assets generated programmatically.

    Proof Zhohhan
  • Advanced animation & interactivity

    Animated SVG maps, GSAP set pieces, animated device mockups, drag-and-throw physics, live countdowns, sliders that behave differently on a phone.

    Proof Colombian Fest ATX
  • Websites in code

    Landing pages, one-pagers and multi-page sites in plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript — or Astro when the project earns it. No framework tax for a brochure site.

    Proof Helelai CRM

D 04 services

Strategy & launch

The work around the build that decides whether it converts and whether anyone finds it.

  • Redesign & conversion optimization

    Deep audits — including multi-agent passes that surface far more than a manual review — turned into a prioritized, costed fix list, then applied.

    Proof SaborCol
  • Bilingual copywriting (EN/ES) & message strategy

    Headlines, page copy and calls to action written in each brand’s voice, in both languages, by the same team that builds the page they live on.

  • Technical SEO, performance & accessibility

    Titles and meta, structured data (JSON-LD), Open Graph and Twitter cards, sitemaps and canonicals, focus states and reduced-motion — on pages light enough to load on a phone in a parking lot.

    Proof Zhohhan
  • Domains, DNS, SSL & launch

    Registrar to live site, including the authoritative-level DNS debugging that resolves an incident the same day instead of "waiting for propagation".

    Proof Zhohhan

03 Pricing

What it costs, before you ask.

Starting prices in U.S. dollars. Every one of them buys custom work — the design, the code and the copy, written by hand. None of them is a template with your logo dropped into it.

  1. Landing page

    One page

    A single page designed, coded, written and launched — start to live site inside a day.

    • Custom design, no page builder
    • Copy written for the page
    • Mobile-first build
    • Domain, DNS and SSL connected

    $300

    Shipped in one day

  2. E-commerce

    On Shopify

    Up to 1,000 products

    A Shopify storefront on a theme written from scratch. Shopify carries checkout, payments, taxes and inventory out of the box — that platform doing the heavy lifting is exactly what makes this price possible.

    • Custom theme, no Dawn or Horizon base
    • Checkout, payments and inventory: Shopify’s, ready on day one
    • Catalog and collections set up
    • Owner-editable from the admin

    $500

  3. E-commerce at scale

    On Shopify

    2,000+ products

    The same Shopify build against a large catalog, where search, filtering and navigation stop being an afterthought.

    • Everything in the tier above
    • Predictive search built without a library
    • Category navigation edited from one text box
    • Bulk catalog import and cleanup

    $800

  4. E-commerce

    Without Shopify

    Up to 1,000 products

    A store in plain code, no platform underneath. Everything Shopify would have handed us — checkout, payments, inventory, every integration — gets wired by hand, and that extra build time is the difference in the price.

    • Hand-coded storefront, no platform fees or platform limits
    • Checkout and payment integration built for the store
    • Catalog loaded, or quote-first if you sell by conversation
    • Hosting, domain and SSL set up

    $800

  5. E-commerce at scale

    Without Shopify

    2,000+ products

    The hand-coded build against a large catalog — search, filtering, navigation and the data pipeline, all written for this store specifically.

    • Everything in the tier above
    • Predictive search and filtering at catalog scale
    • Bulk import and cleanup of the product data
    • Built to stay fast with thousands of products

    $1,200

  6. Large-scale software

    Multi-role platforms

    Systems with several operational roles, third-party integrations and money moving through them.

    • Web, mobile and infrastructure
    • Third-party APIs: accounting, payments, GPS
    • CI/CD with automatic rollback
    • Runbooks written for a non-technical operator

    Up to $10,000

    Quoted per project

Between 1,000 and 2,000 products — on either stack — the store is quoted on the catalog.

+What moves the price

  • Shopify or not: without it, checkout, payments and every integration are wired by hand, which is slower and priced accordingly
  • Catalog size and how clean the product data arrives
  • Third-party integrations — payments, accounting, delivery, chat
  • How many roles the system has to serve
  • Whether the content is written or supplied

All prices in USD.

04 Process

Five steps, and the second one is the whole trick.

Most sites drift because the design decisions get made while the code is being written. Approving tokens and a sitemap first is what keeps a build coherent — this page was made the same way.

  1. 01

    Brief

    We map the business, the buyer and what a win actually looks like. Nothing gets built until that is written down and agreed.

  2. 02

    Tokens & sitemap

    Color, type, spacing and page structure approved before a single component exists. This is the step that stops a site from drifting into six different button styles.

  3. 03

    Build

    Section by section, checked on a phone as it goes. Written by hand, structured so a non-technical owner can edit it without breaking anything.

  4. 04

    Audit

    Conversion, accessibility, performance and platform-compliance passes — including adversarial multi-agent review, where one set of agents finds defects and another set tries to refute them against the code.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Domain, DNS, SSL, structured data, sitemap. Verified live on real devices, then handed over with runbooks written for the person who has to run it.

05 How we work

Why hire this instead of a template.

A template is cheaper on day one. These are the five reasons it costs more by month six.

  • Everything written by hand

    No page-builder weight and no page-builder sameness. The markup is only what the page needs, so it loads fast — and it looks like nobody else.

  • Interactions no template ships with

    Animated distribution maps, AI mockup generators, drag-and-throw physics, brand mascots. The halftone field breathing behind this page is a WebGL shader written by hand — no three.js, no animation library, ~6 KB of JavaScript for the whole site.

  • A token-based design system

    The whole identity — color, type, radius, spacing — re-tints from one file without touching structure. One artist site carried four complete rebrands that way, and this page was re-skinned into the Helelai palette the same day it was written.

  • Admin-safe by convention

    A non-technical owner edits text, images, schedules and tables from the panel without being able to break the layout. Schedules and menus are edited as plain text, not code.

  • Process rigor

    Tokens and sitemap before code. Design, conversion and compliance audits with findings prioritized and fixed, not filed. This page ships with 79 automated checks that run on every push.

06 About

One small team, the whole build.

Working with
Clients across the United States
Delivered by
One team — design, code, copy and launch
Languages
English & Spanish
Specialties
Custom Shopify, B2B platforms, quote-first e-commerce, events, restaurants, importers and distributors, retail, internal tooling

07 What happens next

Yours would be the eleventh.

Everything on this page was designed, coded, written and launched by the same small team, and every claim links to the system that proves it. This page is made to be walked through together — bring the project you have in mind to that conversation and you will get an honest read on scope, timeline and whether we are the right people for it.

10 projects · 10 live · 79 automated tests