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“All the work that’s fit to ship.” The month in review from a one-person shop in Alice, Texas.

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June 2026

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

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210 ships · 5 projects this month

June was heavy. We shipped a system that films every custom laser engraving automatically, you upload a design, it runs through the laser, and you get a video of it being made. No manual setup. We also unlocked Spanish on our jobs board, so a Spanish-speaking worker in Corpus Christi can find a job posted in English and see it in their language instead. They apply in Spanish, the employer gets a translation of the key details. One post reaches both languages. We shipped a postcard mail system with tracking so you can see which customers called because of your card. We built a way for businesses running photo booths in multiple towns to manage all their accounts from one login instead of bouncing between three separate logins. And we added a bunch of search visibility and safety work to our local Q&A site. It was a heavy month.

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This Month

Off The Wire

More that shipped this month, in brief. Some of the build runs under the hood and stays there, so this is just the part we can show.

  • Manage photo booth business accounts all in one dashboard
  • Set custom prices for magnets in each town separately
  • Rename a show and keep old links working forever
  • Send postcards only to neighborhoods that matter for you
  • Claim your category and own the jobs board
  • Answer your phone and watch money come in real-time
  • Post once to Facebook and we handle the rest
  • Upload a photo and get an engraving video instantly
  • Run postcard campaigns and track which ones actually paid
  • Ask a local question and get a fact-checked answer
  • Spanish-speaking workers find your job posting fast
  • Build magnets with live preview of real composed design
  • Drag and zoom to frame a photo into puzzle pieces
  • Straighten photos and reset rotation with one tap
  • Delete accidental print sheets from the admin panel
  • Duplicate one magnet design to fill the entire sheet
  • Compose internal sheets without needing Stripe payment
  • See all tenant accounts and manage them from one place
  • Upload your logo and it appears on every product
  • Set your own prices at signup and edit them anytime
  • Tenants bypass billing if they're on the comp list
  • Font picker and frame-style picker with real textures
  • One tap into the builder without any setup form
  • Reply-to field on every email routes back to operator
  • Platform owner sees all shops and their activity
  • Sync QR code scans to bulk stats in real time
  • Receive EDDM conversions from Site-A intake endpoint
  • Phone-first money queue cockpit shows cash flowing in
  • Outreach pipeline turns NPCLocal demand into Adhere leads

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