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Be one of the first 50 businesses to join Shortlist and lock in $50/month for the All-in-One Bundle, forever. This grand...
08/19/2026

Be one of the first 50 businesses to join Shortlist and lock in $50/month for the All-in-One Bundle, forever. This grandfathered pricing includes everything: SmartAssistant, Online Ordering, Booking System, and Financial Reports.

Once the 50 spots are filled, this offer is gone for good.

08/04/2026

Testing our new posting pipeline — this update was published straight from the Shortlist Pass dashboard.

Helping small businesses grow online: custom websites, apps and social media. shortlistpass.com

New episode of We Don't Call Ahead is up.This week we stopped by The Clever Cleaver parked in Conway to hang with Chef T...
07/15/2026

New episode of We Don't Call Ahead is up.

This week we stopped by The Clever Cleaver parked in Conway to hang with Chef Tommy. If you've been to Sunday Funday downtown, you already know his truck — he's one of the people who helped make that whole thing happen. Food trucks, live entertainment, and a menu with something for everyone.

We showed up unannounced, ate way too much, and got the story behind it all.

Full episode:

Welcome to We Don't Call Ahead — the show where we pull up unannoun...

Fifty-two pages. That is the length of the rulebook a volunteer somewhere is typing into a system tonight, one line at a...
07/07/2026

Fifty-two pages. That is the length of the rulebook a volunteer somewhere is typing into a system tonight, one line at a time, on a Tuesday, for zero dollars. Then the pool rules. Then the ARC guidelines. Then the pet policy and the trash schedule. This same person is also expected to email 600 neighbors about bingo. Nobody signed up for this. Everybody is doing it anyway. And here is the part that stings: the emails don't work. You know the ones — ALL-CAPS subject line, PDF attachment, sent from a no-reply address. The open rate is under ten percent. The board writes a second email hoping to break through where the first didn't. It doesn't.

So we stopped trying to make the board better at communicating and built the app to do the communicating itself. Upload the 50-page PDF; the assistant reads it, sorts it, and answers residents at 11pm about fence heights on its own. It targets a message at one street, or one interest group, or one specific door. Every Monday it emails the full week of events to subscribers automatically — no laptop, no three-board-member approval chain. 665 events have run across the network so far. None of them happened because someone sent a better PDF.

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The board is a bunch of unpaid volunteers hand-typing parking rules into a system nobody reads. Three new builds fix that — and the board does nothing.

The oven at Ferrucci Brick Oven Pizza  weighs more than the man who built it, and it is bolted to a trailer. He fires it...
07/07/2026

The oven at Ferrucci Brick Oven Pizza weighs more than the man who built it, and it is bolted to a trailer. He fires it up in driveways, office parking lots, and HOA lawns — wherever the truck fits, he backs it in. Before this, he was a firefighter for twenty years. The Italian food his immigrant parents carried over and put on the table never left him; eventually it pulled hard enough that he followed it out of one profession and into another. The menu is short and specific. Twelve-inch personal pies: cheese $14, specialty pies — Buffalo Chicken, Meat Lovers, Veggie Delight — $18. A cannoli is $5. There is Italian ice for the weather that calls for it. On Shortlist, the most-searched item on his page, by a wide margin, is the plain 12-inch cheese. People keep asking about it, which is usually what happens right before the word gets out.

This weekend he has three stops. One of them is Clear Pond, Friday at 5. Clear Pond runs on Shortlist, which means ordering just got absurdly easy: residents tap the event card on their home feed and preorder from the truck before they leave the house. You show up, it's ready. The kitchen table his parents built never went anywhere. He just put it on wheels.

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Twenty years of running into fires — and every off-shift meal was practice for this.

07/06/2026

We built a golf game. It's bad. That's the point. ⛳

9 ridiculous holes. A gator that chases your ball. A shark. Seagulls that steal your shot. And a leaderboard where your neighborhood battles every other neighborhood in Myrtle Beach.

Bad golf. Good times. Beat your neighbors 👉 app.shortlistpass.com/games/golf

Picture Amy. It’s 11pm. She wants to know if her fence is allowed.Old way: email Monday, wait three days, get a PDF from...
06/24/2026

Picture Amy. It’s 11pm. She wants to know if her fence is allowed.

Old way: email Monday, wait three days, get a PDF from 2019.

New way: she asks her neighborhood’s assistant and gets the answer in 8 seconds. Specific to her street. Specific to her phase.

That’s not a chatbot. That’s a board member that never clocks out.

Three phases. Three rule sets. One assistant that knows exactly which one you live in.

HOA boards weren’t built to answer the same question forty times. Now they don’t have to.

Full story in The Shortlist. https://magazine.shortlistpass.com/this-isn-t-a-management-app-it-s-a-board-member-who-never-sleeps

We don't call ahead. We just show up.This time we ambushed Kafana MilosSerbian food you can't find anywhere else on the ...
06/23/2026

We don't call ahead. We just show up.

This time we ambushed Kafana Milos

Serbian food you can't find anywhere else on the Grand Strand, plus People's Choice Champ Damian dropping gems for anyone crazy enough to start a food truck.

Watch the full one.

Welcome to We Don't Call Ahead — the show where we pull up unannoun...

Issue 03 of The Shortlist is live.Three stories about who's feeding the Grand Strand, what your HOA could actually be, a...
05/22/2026

Issue 03 of The Shortlist is live.

Three stories about who's feeding the Grand Strand, what your HOA could
actually be, and a new way to share the local stuff you love.

→ The food truck owner who built a kitchen for his competition
→ Why your community doesn't need another management app
→ Lists: curate the Grand Strand without being an influencer

Read it: https://magazine.shortlistpass.com

Hyperlocal. By design.

The HOA That Burned Their Website.Two months ago, Clear Pond made a call most HOA boards wouldn't: they burned their web...
04/29/2026

The HOA That Burned Their Website.

Two months ago, Clear Pond made a call most HOA boards wouldn't: they burned their website, killed their Facebook group, and moved everything to Shortlist Pass — all in. No hedging, no parallel systems, no "let's see how it goes."

Today: 64 upcoming events. 123 RSVPs. 318 app installs. An AI assistant answering 264+ resident questions about life in the community.

Quinn Morrow wrote it up for our first issue.

If you run an HOA or sit on a board, this one's for you.

Clear Pond HOA ditched their website and Facebook group for Shortlist Pass. Here's how one Grand Strand community is redefining HOA communication.

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