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Notes from the sites we run

Every site we build is one we also run, every day. These are honest walk-throughs of each of them: what the business needed, what the site does for it, and what keeps it working after launch.

gs.construction Sep 20, 2026

gs.construction: a remodeler's site that works the whole Chicago suburbs

A family-owned remodeler with forty years of combined experience and five-star reviews — and a site that answers a search from every town it serves, then keeps improving itself every day.
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dawnsellshomes.com Sep 20, 2026

dawnsellshomes.com: a real estate site built to end with a phone call

A mother-and-son team who have sold in the same suburbs for thirty years. Their site carries live listings, a valuation tool built from their own closed sales, and a page for every neighborhood they know by heart.
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hive.contractors Sep 20, 2026

hive.contractors: the CRM our contractors' leads flow into

Built for small contractors, by people who run one. Leads, estimates, receipts, planning and homeowner updates under one roof — and the place a lead from any of our sites lands next.
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waterisprecious.org Sep 20, 2026

waterisprecious.org: a public office site that takes you three hundred feet down

The site of a water reclamation commissioner serving Chicago and 128 suburbs: a scrolling story that follows water from Lake Michigan to the treatment tunnels, plus the practical things — events, a volunteer sign-up, a press kit.
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jpeterson-design.com Sep 20, 2026

jpeterson-design.com: two sisters, three metros, one portfolio

An interior design studio run by two sisters in Chicago, Southwest Michigan and Atlanta. The newest site on this list: a portfolio of twenty-one projects on the studio's own domain, moved off a page builder in September 2026.
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