Ryan Kane / independent designer + builder

Built for the business. Not for a template.

I design and ship websites, storefronts, funnels, and working tools for owner-led businesses.

One-person studio Philadelphia / remote

Selected work / live now

The work has to do something.

Every screen below was captured from the live site. Four businesses, four different jobs: keep a calendar current, move products, fill a chair, and turn custom cakes into real enquiries.

Val's Lesbian BarLive site + client-owned operations

What is on tonight, what is on the menu, and what the staff needs next.

The public site turns real event posters into a rolling events rail, shared details, ticket links, and a three-month calendar. Behind it, Val's has a private staff workspace for drafts, confirmations, publishing, recovery, media, bookings, mailing records, and analytics.

Visit the live site

Public: Events, calendar, details, tickets, 42-item menu
Staff: Event queues, private drafts, publishing history, restore paths
System: React, Supabase, client-owned backend

Current Val's event cards with live posters for Karaoke, Planet Dyke, and the Plant Costume Party

Current Val's October 2026 calendar populated with public events

Private staff workspace

93 imported records. Five queues. One publishing path.

Owner-sheet rows come in without automatically reaching the public calendar. Staff can find missing information, hold or reject a row, review live events, publish only what is ready, and recover earlier versions without touching the code.

Val's private staff events workspace showing a 93-record owner sheet import, confirmation and publishing queues, live events, bookings, analytics, and version history

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Two J'sLive commerce system

A storefront with an operation behind it.

The live shop ties the current catalog, product media, pricing, cart, delivery rules, customer accounts, inventory truth, order desk, owner controls, and campaign work into one system.

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Public: Storefront, product media, cart, accounts, rewards, local delivery
Staff: Order inbox, counter codes, courtesy records, tips, driver runs
System: Supabase, live inventory, payment and fulfillment records

Current Two J's homepage with the illustrated South Street storefront and blue jay identity

Current Two J's Pick Your Lane shop screen with illustrated product categories for flower, prerolls, vapes, edibles, party favors, and concentrates

Customer account + private staff back office

The sale keeps moving after checkout.

Customers can see earned points, order activity, and progress toward a reward. On the staff side, paid orders land in the inbox, codes are redeemed at the counter, courtesy items stay on the record, driver tips remain attributable, and each driver run has a working handoff.

Two J's private staff back office with live tools for the order inbox, code redemption, courtesy records, driver tips, and driver runs

Privacy-cropped Two J's customer account showing a points balance, reward progress, and recent point activity without the member barcode or number

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Current Barbers and Gents homepage with the shop's product-led Pine Street identity

Barbers & GentsLive shop + wholesale path

The craft sells the chair before the booking button does.

A product-led neighborhood barbershop site with services, booking, retail products, a customer link hub, and a protected wholesale ordering path.

Visit the live site

Public: Services, Square booking, retail products, customer link hub
Trade: Protected wholesale catalog, enquiries, Square checkout
System: Vite, Supabase Site Desk, client-owned Square

Current Elephantaes homepage with its custom cake positioning and order path

ElephantaesLive bakery + owner desk

The cake brief starts before the enquiry.

Signature cakes, tiramisu, gallery proof, journal stories, and a guided order path, backed by an owner desk for the content that changes after launch.

Visit the live site

Public: Cakes, tiramisu, gallery, journal, guided enquiries
Owner: Menu, gallery, journal, form questions, leads, mailing list
System: Next.js, Supabase owner desk, Netlify Forms, Square

The front end is only the part people see.

I also build the publishing, intake, checkout, owner controls, and handoff that make the site useful after launch.

Owner control

Client-owned content desks

Products, menus, media, enquiries, publish history, and restore paths without handing the business another mystery vendor.

Lead systems

Quizzes that collect the right facts

Short, treatment-specific or service-specific intake with consent, attribution, and a clear staff handoff.

Commerce

Checkout tied to real operations

Inventory, delivery rules, fulfillment state, customer accounts, staff actions, and the edge cases between them.

Private tools

Working prototypes before the big bet

Enough real interaction, records, exports, and failure states to learn what the full product actually needs.

Clear starting points.

Flat rates, half up front and the balance on launch. The final scope lives in the contract, not in a surprise invoice.

Starting point

Storefront

$2,800flat

A custom, responsive site with the core path a customer needs: clear positioning, purposeful motion, contact or booking flow, analytics, launch setup, and a clean handoff.

See what is included

Custom responsive website and purposeful motion
Positioning and page structure
Contact or lead form wired to your inbox
Hosting, domain, analytics, and launch setup
Client-owned accounts and handoff notes
30 days of post-launch tweaks

Site plus owned follow-up

Storefront + Funnel

$5,000

The custom site plus lead capture, newsletter setup, a three-email welcome sequence, campaign tracking, and editable launch assets.

Broader reboot

Full Brand Lift

$8,500

The site and funnel plus deeper positioning, messaging, visual direction, campaign assets, and a practical 90-day rollout plan.

Apps and owner tools

Custom systems

From $10,000

Authenticated products, client-owned backends, owner desks, commerce operations, and multi-role tools start with a practical build plan.

After launchCare plans start at $250/month.

Hosting, monitoring, updates, and a defined edit window. Optional and month to month.

One person, accountable for the whole thing.

I am Ryan Kane. I have been teaching myself design and building on the web since I was 16. Today I work directly with business owners, from the first rough idea through launch and the unglamorous parts after it.

No account manager. No handoff to a mystery developer. If something is not ready, I will say so.

Tell me the business and what the site needs to do.

rykane89@gmail.com