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Carrara Collective — Stone Furniture E-Shop
A Sydney stone furniture maker. Customers pick the model, size, and stone, then pay online — without a monthly shop platform taking a cut of every sale.
A website that wins work.
A portal that runs it.
Your shopfront, your customer and staff area, and the connections between the tools you already use. Built around your business.
Fixed price before we start. Your code, your hosting, your content. If we part ways, it keeps running.
- Live in 2–4 weeks
- You keep the site — no monthly platform
- Fast on a phone (95+ PageSpeed)
Proof of work
See it live — not in a slide deck.
Click through real, working examples. Some are shipped client work, others show what's possible. Judge the quality the way a customer would.
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Capricorn Dancer — Direct-Enquiry Holiday Rental Website
A holiday rental website with synced availability, flexible pricing and direct enquiries — built for an owner who wants to confirm each booking personally.
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CryptDrop — Browser-Based File Encryption
A web application for encrypting and decrypting files directly in the browser using OpenPGP — no uploads, no servers, everything happens on your device.
Sound familiar?
Most businesses aren't short of software. They're short of a week that runs itself.
The shopfront is quiet — or embarrassing.
The Facebook page is doing the job of a website. Enquiries arrive as DMs at 9pm. You look smaller than you are, and good customers can't tell how to hire you.
The work lives in your head.
Status is in WhatsApp. Quotes are in Word. The spreadsheet is 'the system.' Staff interrupt: where's that job up to? Customers chase: just checking in.
You are the glue between your tools.
Paid in Stripe, typed into Xero, emailed a receipt, reminded yourself to follow up. That's hours every week of work the software you already pay for should finish.
You don't need another login. You need a website that brings work in, a portal that runs it, and the tools you already pay for talking to each other.
What we build
Three things. One business that runs smoother.
Asbestos Watch · Business website
A website that wins work
Looks like the business you actually run. Loads before people get bored. Makes it obvious what you do, who it's for, and how to enquire or book — on a phone, after hours.
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FireTrack PNG · Staff portal
A customer and staff portal
Customers book, upload documents, pay, and see progress without calling you. Your team sees every job, invoice, and message in one place — instead of asking you.
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Connected tools · Illustrative workflow
Tools that talk to each other
A payment updates the books. A booking sends the confirmation and the reminder. The follow-up goes out even when you're on a job. You stop being the integration.
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Use standard software for standard jobs. Own what makes you different.
Custom isn't automatically better. But when generic software makes your team work around it, ownership can be worth exploring.
Who you'll work with
I sit with business owners, watch how a job comes in, and build the missing pieces.
Hi, I'm Nilushan — I started OwnStack because I kept watching good businesses lose hours every week to inboxes, spreadsheets, and tools that don't talk to each other — and then pay monthly rent on a website they don't really own.
When you work with us, you work with me. I learn how a job actually comes in, where it gets messy, and what would take the most weight off you. Then we build that — a website, a portal, the connections — at a fixed price, and you keep it.
10+ years building for real businessesYou talk to the person doing the workBased in Logan, QLD — Australia-wideFixed quotes. No surprise invoices.
One workflow, connected
From client instructions to documents in their hands.
Here's how a customer area and a staff workspace fit together. The client submits once, your team reviews, and the finished documents return to the same place.
Canopy Wills working demonstration. These screens use fictional data, not a production client deployment. Payment is simulated; drafts are not legal advice or valid wills.
The client sends the details
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Guided questions collect the relevant information. Clients can save their progress instead of starting another email thread. Your team reviews the work
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Staff see the submitted answers and review flags together. A person stays in control of issuing the documents. The client gets the documents
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Once issued, the demonstration Word and PDF files appear in the client's own dashboard, ready to download.
How it works
Tell us how a job comes in.
Walk us through a recent customer — first hello to money in the bank. Rough notes are fine. Include any sites you like.
We send back a clear plan.
You'll see the messy bits named in your words, plus a timeline and a fixed price. Nothing starts until you say so.
We build it. You start using it.
Website, portal, connections — launched, shown to your team, and yours to keep. Ongoing help only if you want it.
Honest pricing
Fixed quote. One time. Yours to keep.
Starting prices are a rough guide. We quote the exact fixed price once we understand what you need built.
Business website
From $500
Content and images supplied by you. Hosting is separate.
- A website using the content and images you supply
- Change words, photos, and prices yourself
- A simple contact form that emails the lead to you and the enquirer
- Looks sharp on a phone
- Set up on your infrastructure. You get the code.
Customer & staff portal
Most popularFrom $2,000
Starting price. Exact quote once the workflow is clear.
- Customers book, upload, pay, and check progress
- Your team sees jobs, messages, and invoices in one place
- Logins and permissions that match how you work
- Built around your week — not a generic template
- 30 days of help after launch
Connect your tools
From $1,500
Typical range $1.5k–$5k fixed price
- Stripe, Xero, calendar, email — talking to each other
- A payment updates the books. A booking sends the reminder.
- Cut the hours you spend re-typing and chasing
- Runs on accounts in your name
- No monthly fee that grows as you use it
Not sure which you need? Get a fixed quote and we'll recommend the smallest step that helps.
Common questions
Questions owners ask before they start
How much does this cost?
A simple website starts at $500. You supply the content and images, and the contact form emails the lead to you and to the enquirer. A client portal starts from $2,000. Connecting the tools you already use usually starts from $1,500. These are rough guides, calculated from the lower range of full-stack and cloud engineering rates. We quote the exact fixed price once we understand what you need. Each project is set up on your own infrastructure, and you own the code.
I don't want to become a tech company. Is this for me?
Yes. Most of the people we work with are trades, clinics, studios, and service businesses — not software companies. We don't add a pile of new logins. We build the shopfront, the customer/staff area, and the connections between tools you already pay for. You keep running the business. The busywork gets quieter.
What happens if we stop working together?
Nothing gets switched off. The website and portal keep running on accounts in your name. You can change the words and photos yourself. If you ever bring someone else in, they can pick it up — we don't hold the keys, and there's no exit fee.
How long will it take?
Most websites are live in 2–4 weeks. A focused first version of a portal is typically 4–8 weeks. Connecting two or three tools is often 1–3 weeks. You'll get a timeline with your quote, before anything starts.
What are the ongoing costs?
Hosting on your own account — typically $5–25 a month, paid directly to the provider. That's it. No platform subscription, no per-user fees that grow with your team. Optional support if you want us on call, never required.
Can I change things myself after launch?
Yes. Words, photos, prices, hours, services — you edit those yourself. You won't wait on us for a typo. If you later want a new kind of page or a new connection between tools, that's a scoped piece of work with a fixed price.
Do we need to meet in person?
Only if you want to. We're based in Logan, Queensland and can meet across Brisbane, the Gold Coast, and South East Queensland — but most projects run remotely, and we work with businesses Australia-wide.
Tell us how a job
comes in.
What's working, what isn't, and where you still do things by hand. We'll come back with a clear plan — even if the honest answer is 'you only need the website this year.'
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