Web Despega
My own service: I design and publish a local business website in seven days, with copy, photos, a fixed budget and no lock-in.
Problem
By day I build software in .NET and Angular. By night I kept seeing the same gap: local businesses with no website, or with one that is unusable on a phone, while the shop next door ranks first on Google. I wanted a service I could deliver on my own, on a fixed schedule.
Solution
A separate brand —Web Despega— so the engineering profile and the local-website one do not get mixed up. A conversion landing page, a 7-day process, a written quote and a first real client already live: The Knowing Space.
Results
7 days
Turnaround
Own service
Model
The Knowing Space
First client
Tech stack
- Astro 4
- Tailwind CSS 3
- TypeScript
- Cloudflare
- Umami Analytics
- Local SEO
Web Despega is a one-person service that designs, writes and publishes a local business website in seven days.
It is not a lab side-project. It is a commercial brand with its own domain, a fixed budget, written guarantees and a client already in production.
Why it sits next to this portfolio
This site (jesusprodriguez.com) is the engineering dossier: .NET, Angular, AI, architecture decisions. Web Despega is the channel for whoever runs a shop or a local service and needs a website that converts.
The two brands cross on purpose:
- Here, Web Despega shows I can take a product end to end (offer, copy, design, SEO, launch, client).
- There, I do not talk about Entity Framework: I talk about Google, WhatsApp and deadlines.
What the service includes
- Hand-made design, written copy and the business’s own photos in place.
- Mobile-first and local SEO (Google business profile, neighbourhood search).
- Domain and hosting in the client’s name, with no lock-in.
- Two rounds of changes and a walkthrough video so they can edit copy and opening hours.
Proof of delivery
The Knowing Space is the public case: a bilingual EN/ES website with one-click session booking, designed and published from scratch.
The service’s own website is at webdespega.com.
What I learned
- → Keeping the brands apart avoids confusing a recruiter with a shop owner: this site talks engineering; webdespega.com talks to local clients.
- → A service landing page is designed the other way round from a portfolio: objections, price and guarantees first; the stack afterwards.
- → Cloudflare (DNS, headers, self-hosted analytics) provides a technical floor a local business never has to understand.
- → One published client beats ten demos: The Knowing Space is the proof of delivery.
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