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Websites · Soft launch · Gillette, WY

La Donuts — a warm phone-first site for a family shop.

A short build for a donut shop in Gillette — two sessions on top of the Skateland framework. Menu, hours, two ordering paths (Messenger + text), written to sound like the owner. No online cart, no Doordash tax, nothing between a regular and a glazed at 6:45am.

ClientLa Donuts
Year2026
Buildtwo sessions
Previewladonuts.buford.dev
La Donuts homepage — warm pink-cream background with handmade donuts

The brief.

Owner needed a site that did three things: show today's menu, say when they're open, and make it trivially easy for a regular to order a dozen glazed from the parking lot. Everything else was pressure we refused to add.

What shipped.

A short menu the owner can update, hours and location in both the hero and the footer, and two ordering paths: "Order on Messenger" and "Text us to order." No online cart, no third-party fees, nothing between a regular and a glazed at 6:45am. Built on the same Next.js + Payload framework as Skateland — copying our own homework is how this one took two sessions instead of two months.

Color, type, and tone came from the owner's handwritten menu board. We pulled a pink from it and built around that.

What we're watching.

Whether the two-path ordering (Messenger vs text) settles into a clear favorite, and whether Local Pack visibility for "donuts gillette wy" climbs once the GBP is tied to the final domain. Full writeup lands here after the site has a month of real traffic.