Lucitech

Web, design and app development led by Chris Brand. Small business websites from $500. Since 1997. Changes day or night. Just text us.
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10/30/2026

Tina's Closets designs and installs custom closets, pantries and garage systems across Pinellas County.

Lucitech was proud to help Tina's Closets get online. We built a site that lets the work do the talking: big photos of finished closets, real Google reviews up front, and a free in-home consultation one tap away.

When they need a change, they just text Kai and it's done. No logins, no waiting on a web guy. Green across the board on Google's PageSpeed tests.

Take a look: https://tinasclosets.com

Want a site like this for your business? Book a call with me: https://calendar.app.google/XNvMtxvFtwPr4HxG7

10/29/2026

Things come together now in hours that used to take me days. It's a rush, and lately I've been staying at the keyboard long past when I used to call it a night.

Somewhere along the way my own work got cluttered, one reasonable change at a time. The tools made the doing fast. The ideas still take the time they always took.

This week I wrote about the two small changes that gave me that time back, and why I think they matter for anyone who's always on the phone, always marketing, always pushing.

AI has made the doing fast, but good ideas still need quiet time away from the screen. Why I leave my phone at home for a morning walk and plan my game with pencil and paper.

10/20/2026

You remember your prices went up while you're between sets at the gym. A customer asks about a model you haven't listed yet. The event you've been planning just got its final date.

Each of those is the right moment to update your website, and it's rarely a moment you're at a computer. So it goes on a list.

This week I wrote about closing that gap, plus a few plain questions to ask the next time someone pitches you an AI tool.

The useful promise of AI is finishing a task the moment you think of it, so it never lands on your list. Here's what that looks like for small business owners, and what to look for in any AI tool.

10/13/2026

In 1997, I started a little company called Lucitech. I built websites for a scuba company, a tattoo shop, and the local AM rock station, bending early web tables into layouts they were never meant for.

Then software pulled me into a long corporate career. But I never let the name go. I paid for that domain every year, even when it was a struggle.

This year, I came back to it.

When I asked my small business friends what they needed, the answers stopped me. An herbalist had spent $3,000 on a simple website. A realtor was paying at least a thousand dollars a month for hers. Neither site was being found. Others had given up on Wix and GoDaddy after losing too many evenings to them.

Meanwhile, search is shifting toward AI, and a properly built website has become one of the main factors in whether customers can find you.

So that’s what Lucitech does now: design that looks like agency work, for less than dinner.

I wrote about why I came home to it, and what we’ve built since:

https://lucitech.net/blog/why-i-came-home-to-lucitech/

Lucitech started in 1997. After a hard year, I came back to it to build beautiful, affordable websites small businesses can update with a text message.

10/04/2026

When we tell people what we do the most common response is disbelief. Here is how we do it.

09/25/2026

You are your business. Your product is only what you sell.

09/24/2026

Beautiful mobile capable websites for your small business. Icon Golf Carts of Tampa Bay wonderworksgulfport

09/22/2026

Don’t react with a knee jerk. Play the long game.

09/21/2026

Just a few of our favorite sites.

09/20/2026

Being good at what you do is not enough to run a small business.

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Gulfport, FL
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