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LA studio · Serving all of California · Built by Jimmy Peng & Levin Chang

We build the website
they didn't know they wanted yet.

LJ Sites is an LA studio shipping mockup websites for California businesses that don't have one. We find a place we love, build them a working site, and put it live where they can see it. Real photos. Real maps. Hand-tuned typography.

25+
Sites shipped
~3 days
Discover → live
Free
Cost to look
CA
Statewide
01 · Selected work

Recent mockups, shipped.

8 live sites, each one a different archetype — because no two businesses should feel like they used the same template. Photos pulled live from Google Places.

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03 · How it works

A pipeline, not a sales funnel.

Every LJ Sites mockup ships with hand-tuned typography, real photos pulled live from Google Places, an embedded map, and a working call button. We build the mockup speculatively — you only sign on once you've seen the work.

01 · Discover

Find the business

We sweep California for small businesses without a website of their own — places whose only digital front door is a Google Maps pin. Real places that deserve a real one.

02 · Design

Build the mockup

Photos, hours, menu, testimonies — all real, all hand-set. One archetype per site, picked to fit the place. No templates.

03 · Ship

Publish to the web

Within minutes the mockup is live on a clean ljsites.github.io URL. We send the owner the link — anywhere in California — so they can see it, click it, call themselves from it.

04 · Care

We stay around

Once you sign on, we wire up your domain, set up your email, and look after the site month to month — content edits, refreshes, the small fixes most studios charge by the hour for. See Pricing for what's included.

04 · About

A two-person studio
in LA.

Jimmy Peng & Levin Chang. We kept walking into restaurants and shops we loved that didn't show up on Google. We got tired of that.

So we built a pipeline: find local places without a real online front door, ship them a single-page mockup as a sales pitch, and let the work speak for itself. No cold outreach, no pitch decks, no contracts to sign before you've seen what we'd actually make for you.

Every site is hand-tuned. We don't ship templates. We don't ghost you after launch — we keep your site running month to month and pick up the phone when something needs to change. We started in LA and now serve businesses anywhere in California.

05 · Pricing

Plain pricing on the front. A conversation on the rest.

One honest number for the front-end work most small businesses actually need. For everything beyond that — ordering, reservations, accounts, payments — we sit down with you first and price only what you'll really use.

Plan 01 · Front-end
most-popular

A storefront that earns its keep.

$1,000 one-time
setup
+ $200 per month
care & hosting

Everything a small business needs to look as good online as they do in person. Cancel any month — the site stays yours either way.

  • Hand-tuned single-page design.Picked archetype, real typography, real photos. Never a template.
  • Mobile-first responsive.Looks correct on every phone, tablet, and big screen.
  • Working contact form.Submissions forwarded to your email. No spam, no plugins.
  • Embedded Google Map.One-tap directions, accurate pin, branded styling.
  • Click-to-call & click-to-text.Big phone button on every screen size.
  • Photo gallery / lightbox.Show off the space, the food, the work. Up to 24 images.
  • SEO + social meta.Open Graph cards so shared links look polished on iMessage and Instagram.
  • Hosting, SSL & CDN.Fast worldwide, HTTPS out of the box, zero downtime.
  • Custom domain.Bring your .com — we wire it for you.
  • Plain-English analytics.Who visited, what they clicked, where they came from.
  • Monthly content updates included.Hours change, fresh photo, new menu item — usually shipped same day.
  • Quarterly content refresh.Once a quarter we sit down with you and tune the copy.
Start a conversation
Plan 02 · Back-end
by-scoping

When the site needs to do work.

From conversation, not a calculator.

We don't quote back-end work off a brochure — nobody actually needs the same set of features. Tell us what your business should be able to do; we come back with a fixed quote that prices only what you'll really use.

  • Online ordering & e-commerce.From a single-product checkout to full menus with modifiers and pickup windows.
  • Reservations & bookings.Real-time slots, deposits, SMS reminders, no-show policies that actually fire.
  • Customer accounts & loyalty.Profiles, order history, points, gift cards, referrals.
  • Payments.Stripe, Square, Apple Pay, ACH — wired carefully, audited for PCI.
  • CMS you can actually use.Edit your own site without calling us. Optional.
  • Inventory & multi-location.Stock-aware listings, location-specific menus, branch hours.
  • Email & SMS automation.Receipts, drip sequences, win-back, abandoned-cart. Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Twilio.
  • Custom dashboards.The number you check every morning — make it the first thing on the screen.
  • POS & third-party integrations.Square, Toast, Lightspeed, QuickBooks, Google Calendar, Slack.
  • API work & automations.Tie the parts of your business together — once, properly.
  • Member areas & paywalls.Gated content, subscriptions, role-based access for staff or wholesale.
  • If you can describe it, we can probably build it.We've yet to be asked something we couldn't scope.
Book a scoping call
06 · Get in touch

Send us a line.

Tell us the name of the place, what you do, and roughly where you are. We'll come back with a draft you can look at the same week.

BasedLos Angeles, California
ServingAll of California

No follow-ups.
No contracts.

There's nothing to sign, nothing to commit to before you see the mockup, and no follow-up calls if you decide not to keep it. Honestly. We mean it.

  • 01email a sentence about your business
  • 02we reply within a day
  • 03we send you a live mockup
  • 04you decide if you want it

If it's not for you, no problem — we'll take it down. No follow-ups, no hard sell.