What we were handed.
The best pitch for a business without a website is showing them their site — not a portfolio PDF. But standing up a hosted, shareable demo used to cost an afternoon of server work per prospect: a vhost, a certificate, DNS, deployment.
At one demo a month that's tolerable. As a sales motion, it's a bottleneck.
The system.
A publishing pipeline on our own hardware. Every demo gets its own voxelbox.org subdomain with TLS through secure tunnels — no ports opened, no per-site server setup.
One JSON feed drives the whole catalog, and the voxelbox.org homepage reads the same feed — so new work automatically appears on the front page the moment it's published.
One reverse proxy fronts every demo site — adding one is configuration, not surgery.
TLS and public reachability without exposing the home network.
A single JSON file is the catalog, the demo shelf, and the homepage wall.
Publish a demo and the homepage updates itself — no HTML edits.
What changed.
Idea to live, shareable demo in minutes. It's the machinery behind the “Floating in production” wall on our homepage — and behind every mockup we hand a prospect.
The next study could be yours.
Bring us the problem — the messy, manual, “there has to be a better way” kind. We'll design the system, build it, and run it.