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★ The Herd ★

Raised on our ranch.

A competition BBQ team, an Austin social media agency, a party game app with its own TV apps, a cigar auction price tracker, and a free field manual for website emergencies. Each was planned, written, designed and built by our crew in Dripping Springs.

tipsybrisket.com
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After

⇆ Drag the handle: old site, then ours

Lot No. 01

Competition BBQ · Dripping Springs

Tipsy Brisket

Rebuilt from the coals up.

Off a page-builder theme and 40 plugins, onto a fast native build with a cookoff calendar that fills itself, link-in-bio pages the team edits in a minute, and recipes that sort themselves.

  • 40→20 active plugins
  • 323 Texas cookoffs on a calendar that updates itself
  • −62% JavaScript shipped
ranchroadmedia.com
Ranch Road Media home page: Make your brand the talk of the town, with phones showing Instagram and TikTok posts
RR Social proof on a phone, showing a client post exactly as it will appear in the Instagram feed

The site, plus the client portal behind it

Lot No. 02

Social media agency · Austin

Ranch Road Media

The site sells it. The portal delivers it.

A brand system, every word of copy and an 11-page native build, plus RR Social: the client portal where clients preview, approve and track every post from their phone.

  • 11 pages designed, written and built
  • 5 screen widths checked on every page
  • 1 client portal, built and hosted by us
tipsyrounds.com
TipsyRounds home page from top to bottom: Turn any table into game night, the fourteen games, packs, leaderboard and questions

↓ Hover to scroll the whole page

Lot No. 03

Party game app · Phones, Roku, Fire TV, Google TV

TipsyRounds

Turn any table into game night.

Trivia and party games everyone plays on their own phone. The host opens a game, friends scan a QR code and they are playing in seconds. No app to download and no signup to play, and our TV apps for Roku, Fire TV and Google TV put the board on the big screen.

  • 14 games, from Pub Quiz to The Mole
  • 60K+ trivia questions
  • 250 players in one room
ashbid.com
AshBid home page: Know what a cigar really sells for, with live counts, tonight's closing schedule and the latest sales
AshBid cigar page on a phone: record low, typical price, lowest winning bid and worth bidding up to

↓ Hover to scroll the whole page

Lot No. 04

Independent price tracker for CigarBid auctions

AshBid

Know what a cigar really sells for.

Every CigarBid final price, recorded and cleaned up, then turned into plain answers on a phone: the typical price, the record low and how high a cigar is worth bidding.

  • 336K+ winning prices recorded
  • 4,660 cigars and accessories tracked
  • 408 automated tests
webdesignsurvivalist.com
Web Design Survivalist home page from top to bottom: the health check, the Emergency Room symptom picker, featured field guides, the Bug-Out Bag checklists, the toolkit and the designer kits

↓ Hover to scroll the whole page

Lot No. 05

Free field manual · Guides, tools and printables

Web Design Survivalist

A field manual for the day a site breaks.

Plain-language field guides, an Emergency Room for triage, a website checkup with focused diagnostic tools, and printables made for a black and white laser printer. Designed, built and hosted by us.

  • 138 field guides
  • 16 diagnostic tools, plus a full checkup
  • 232 glossary terms

★ Lot No. 06 ★

Your brand goes here.

Tell us what your site has to do. We will plan it, write it, build it and keep it running on our own servers.