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“All the work that’s fit to ship.” A plain-English daily from a one-person shop in Alice, Texas.

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Friday, July 17, 2026

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Finding A ProNPCLocal

Your local roofer shows up first.

Search results got smarter about what matters to you.

NPCLocal is our local-services site that connects Coastal Bend folks with local pros, plus a jobs board.

By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice

When you search for a roofer in Corpus Christi, you used to get big national chains first. Now the local shops in your city show up higher. We changed how the search results rank people so your neighbors show up before the big names.

The change saves you time. You find someone who knows your neighborhood instead of scrolling past companies you've never heard of. A roofer who's fixed salt damage on Padre Island homes. A plumber who understands the water lines in Calallen. That matters more than a company with a fancy website.

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“What people are ordering.”
On Your Calls

Latest Dispatches

Jobs BoardNPCLocal

NPCLocal is our local-services site that connects Coastal Bend folks with local pros, plus a jobs board.

Spanish-speaking workers in South Texas can find your job.

A lot of workers in the Coastal Bend area speak Spanish at home. The jobs website now works in Spanish too. A worker can read the full job posting, the pay, the hours, everything in Spanish without guessing.

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Finding A ProNPCLocal

NPCLocal is our local-services site that connects Coastal Bend folks with local pros, plus a jobs board.

You can see which pros are actually getting calls.

A roofer puts his business on our website and waits. Days pass. He has no idea if people are even looking at his profile. Is he showing up in searches? Are folks clicking his phone number? He can't tell. That changes today.

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For BusinessesNPCLocal

NPCLocal is our local-services site that connects Coastal Bend folks with local pros, plus a jobs board.

Posting your job got easier.

Hiring is a pain. You write a job description, you post it to three different sites, you wait for applicants who don't show up. We can't fix the showing-up part, but we made the posting part less annoying.

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Straight TalkNPCLocal

NPCLocal is our local-services site that connects Coastal Bend folks with local pros, plus a jobs board.

Here's what we're still getting wrong.

We ship a lot of features and fixes. But some things still frustrate people. A business owner's profile gets buried because we can't verify his address. A worker searches for jobs and finds postings from six months ago that nobody's hiring for anymore. A customer can't tell if a pro is actually licensed or just claims he is.

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Your Calls

What people are ordering.

July is reunion season. Family reunions, class reunions, military reunions. People want photos printed on mugs, magnets, plaques. They want something to take home that reminds them of the day. We've shipped a bunch of magnets to reunions this month.

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From The Web

Worth your time, from around the web. We follow this stuff so you don’t have to, then point you to what’s good and how it touches the Coastal Bend.

Some gear links below are Amazon affiliate links. If you buy through them, we earn a small cut at no extra cost to you.

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The Shop Directory

The rest of what this one shop builds and runs across the Coastal Bend.

NPCLocal

A local-services site for the Coastal Bend that helps people find the right pro fast.

NPC Laser

Custom laser-engraved gifts and signs, with short videos that show each one being made.

Adhere

Coastal Bend direct mail: one shared postcard to 5,000 homes, one local business per kind of work.

All Brands STX

Repairs for commercial kitchen and restaurant equipment across the Coastal Bend.

brandstx

Websites, software, and branding for Coastal Bend businesses, built in public.

Boothpress

Custom photo magnets and event photo products for other shops to sell.

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