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01/10/2026

A lot of small businesses end up with a website, a separate booking app on top of it, and products they only ever sell at the counter.

The booking app is usually the bit that annoys customers. They tap Book now and land on some other company's site, different branding, and an account to make before they can pick a time.

Our platform does the lot on your own site. People find you, book a time that's actually free, and can add the stuff you'd normally sell them in person to the same checkout. One order, one payment, your branding the whole way through.

It suits salons, barbers, clinics and trades. Anyone who sells their time as well as products.

We're still in beta and taking on a few more NZ businesses. If you're paying for a website and a booking app separately, flick me a message.

24/09/2026

We've looked after the BRM Cycles website for a few years now. It's a mountain bike shop in Westgate, and the idea from the start was that the site should keep itself up to date. A bike shop stocks parts from a lot of distributors, the prices and stock move every week, and nobody in a busy workshop has time to key that in.

The old site did a version of that with four distributors, and a few years of running it showed us exactly where supplier feeds go wrong. Every distributor sends its data differently, and the site has to keep working when one of them has a bad night. In March we moved BRM onto our new platform, built on those lessons, and it now checks stock and prices with eleven distributors every night on its own. Last night that was 19,058 lines, counting every size and colour, and not one failed.

Which suits Jamie, the owner, just fine. He'd much rather be out at Riverhead with the West Coast Riders Club, digging trails and running shuttle days, than sitting at a laptop updating prices. The website gets on with it while he's in the forest.

The shop lists 3,708 products from 78 brands, and it's selling more than the old site ever did. Orders are coming in from all over the country now too, which is a long way to ride for a chainring.

If your stock lives in supplier spreadsheets and your website is always a bit behind, that's the problem this was built for.

17/09/2026

We're opening our ecommerce platform to a small group of New Zealand stores before it goes properly public.

What it is: an alternative to Shopify where you make changes by talking to an AI assistant instead of wrestling a page builder. No transaction fee on top of Stripe. Shipping integration on every plan rather than as a paid add-on. You bring your own AI subscription and we don't resell credits.

What beta means: you'll be dealing with me directly, some things will be rough, and we'll fix them fast. In exchange, founding customers get cheap rates permanently.

Ten stores and then we stop. Four are already on it, so that leaves six. If you're on Shopify or WooCommerce and the monthly bill has been bugging you, send me a message.

16/09/2026

Our platform doesn't have a drag and drop page builder. That's on purpose, and it's the thing people ask about first.

Ten years of building stores has taught me the visual editor is where projects go to die. Someone drags a block, the mobile layout breaks, nobody notices for a fortnight, then I get the call.

So we took it out and built the whole thing around AI doing the work instead. Not a page builder with an AI button bolted on the side. Built that way from the start, which is a distinction that sounds like it only matters to us.

It doesn't. It's the reason it fits how you already work. If you're using Claude or ChatGPT for ad copy and campaign variations, that same assistant can go and make the change on your store. Put the sale live while it's at it.

Same conversation. One less thing to log into.

09/09/2026

Ten years of building websites and software in Auckland. Most of it ecommerce, and nearly all of it built from scratch for one client at a time.

Do that long enough and you notice you keep solving the same problems. Supplier price lists that get re-keyed by hand. Order confirmations and invoices someone sends manually. Stock that's right in one place and wrong in another. Every build, same problems, slightly different shape.

So we took ten years of that and put it into one platform, built around ecommerce specifically rather than a general website builder with a shop bolted on the side.

Four stores are live on it now, taking real orders while we finish testing. One of them syncs over three thousand products off distributor feeds without anyone touching it.

We'll be posting about how that goes, what we're building, and now and then an opinion about this industry that not everyone will agree with. If you sell online and something about your setup has been quietly annoying you for months, that's usually worth a conversation.

Address

Ellerslie
Auckland
1060

Opening Hours

Monday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday	9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 5:30pm

Website

https://vanguardcode.com/

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