JAK Apps jakapps.com
Cincinnati, Ohio

Web design & custom software in Cincinnati

We're a small Cincinnati shop that builds websites for small businesses. Most of the businesses we work with need more than a website — a way to take bookings, sort job applications, or let customers order online — so we build that part too. And we work in an unusual order: we build your site first, show it to you running, and you decide after you've seen it.

The JAK Apps demo gallery — real working builds

How it usually goes

1

You tell us about your business

A short conversation, or just the form on our homepage. What you do, what's not working, what you wish customers could do without calling you.

2

We go build it

We look at your reviews, your competitors, and how people around here search for businesses like yours. Then we build a real, working version of your site. Not sketches. The actual thing.

3

You look at it and decide

We walk you through it live. If you want it, we launch it on your domain and keep it running for you. If you don't, you've spent nothing and we're still friends.

Builds you can click around in right now

An Italian beef deli

The site carries the whole menu, takes catering requests, and runs hiring and staff scheduling for the owners. The careers page sorts applications so nobody digs through a pile.

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A day spa

Guided booking for two therapists, couples services that need both of them free at once, and reminders that drop straight into the customer's calendar.

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A mobile auto detailer

Online booking, a job board for the day's work, quotes that turn into invoices, before-and-after photos, and a portal where customers see their own vehicles.

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None of these are paying clients — they're concept builds we made to show what's possible, and everything in them actually works. There are more in the demo gallery.

The software part, in plain English

Every business needs something different behind the website. These are the pieces we build most often. They all live in one system with one login, so you're not juggling five subscriptions that don't talk to each other.

Online booking

Customers pick a time on your site and it lands on your calendar. Reminders go out on their own.

Online ordering

Your menu, on your site, taking orders — without a delivery app skimming a percentage of every sale.

Hiring

A careers page that collects applications and floats the promising ones to the top, so hiring stops eating your evenings.

Customer portals

A place where your customers can see their own stuff — appointments, photos, invoices — without calling to ask.

Quotes & invoices

Send a quote, the customer approves it online, and it becomes a job and then an invoice. Nothing sits in paperwork limbo.

Website analytics

Plain answers about your site: how many people visited this week, where they came from, and what they clicked.

Where we work

We're in Cincinnati. Most of our work is close to home — Oakley, Hyde Park, Columbia Tusculum, Over-the-Rhine, Mason, West Chester, Loveland, Anderson Township, and across the river in Covington and Newport. That said, nothing we build cares where you are, so if you found us from somewhere else, that's fine too.

Things people ask us

What makes JAK Apps different from other Cincinnati web design companies?

Most web design companies show you a proposal and ask for a deposit. We'd rather build the thing and let it speak for itself, so that's what we do — you see a finished, working site before any money changes hands. The other difference is what's behind the site. If you need online ordering, booking, or a hiring page, we build that into the same system instead of pointing you at a third-party subscription.

Do you only build websites?

No. The website is usually just the front door. Behind it we build whatever your business actually runs on: booking, online ordering, customer portals, hiring, staff schedules, quotes and invoices. One system, one login.

What kinds of small businesses do you work with?

Restaurants and delis, spas and salons, auto detailers, repair shops, retail. If your customers find you online, we can probably help — and there's a good chance our demo gallery already has a working build for a business like yours.

How does the build-first approach work?

You tell us about your business. We research it, design it, and build a working version of your website and software, then show it to you live. Like it? We launch it on your domain and keep it running. Don't? You've lost nothing.

Do you work with businesses outside Cincinnati?

Yes. We're Cincinnati-based and most of our clients are neighbors, but websites don't care about geography. Everything works the same wherever you are.

See yours before you pay for anything

Tell us a little about your business. We'll build a working version of your website, walk you through it, and let you decide.

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