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

Written by an AI newsroom from the shop’s real code, every day.

June 2026

Thursday, June 25, 2026

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229 ships · 6 projects this month

This month we shipped a price tracker that updates every thirty minutes, a Spanish-language jobs board that reaches more workers, and a postcard mailer that lets you target just the neighborhoods you actually service. The biggest move was publishing repair cost data for South Texas. We've been writing estimates for local repair work long enough to know what things actually cost. Now you can see the real numbers instead of guessing.

Large tree and water tower amidst fields under a cloudy sky.

New ServicesPhoto Products

You get nine tiles.

Arrange them as you wish. Your family gets a fun puzzle. Slice a single photo into nine magnetic tiles. Customers rearrange them however they want.

By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice

You upload a photo. We cut it into a grid of nine pieces. Each piece becomes its own magnet. At an event, you hand someone nine magnets they can swap around and stick back together in any order.

The design tool lets you drag a frame over your image to pick which part of the photo becomes each tile. You can zoom, rotate, and line it up exactly how you want it. The preview shows you the real magnets as they'll look printed.

Post a job.
On Jobs Board

This Month

Jobs BoardNPCLocal

Post a job.

You post a job opening on our jobs board in English. We translate the posting so workers who speak Spanish can read it on the same board.

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Jobs BoardNPCLocal

Edit your job post anytime.

You posted a job three days ago. Now you realize you want to bump the pay or clarify the shift times. Instead of deleting it and starting over, you just edit the post you already have live.

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For BusinessesPhoto Products

Your magnets print fast.

You run a photo booth or event setup. You're taking photos and printing magnets all day. The bottleneck used to be how fast we could make them. We've rebuilt the printing press and the process to keep up with high-volume events.

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For BusinessesPhoto Products

Try it free for fourteen days.

We used to offer a free account that lasted forever. Now we run a fourteen-day trial. You get full access to the design tool and the shop. You can design magnets, buttons, postcards, whatever.

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Straight Talk

See prices.

The biggest thing this month was publishing repair cost data for South Texas. We've been writing estimates for local repair work for a while now. We decided to publish what that data actually says. You can see what roofing costs in Corpus Christi. What HVAC costs in Alice. The range based on work we've priced.

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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.

  • See what repair work costs in your town
  • Share an estimate with a link. No copy and paste.
  • Post a job. Workers can read it in their language.
  • Your magnets print fast. Damn fast.
  • Build and order magnets without a setup form. Just start.
The bigger storyHow one person ships like a crew of nine

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