DigitalSpawn

10/22/2026

Does it really have to be like this?

The return comes after the investment.

Always in that order.

09/15/2026

In this case study we showcase another example of flexibility in WordPress. Integrating Square POS with WordPress for menu enrichment resulting in an overall improvement in User Experience.

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Client Background A Denver-based ice cream business with multiple scoop shops is known for its creative flavors that rotate. Each location needed to showcase its daily menu online, feed directly from its Square POS system. Customers needed to see available flavors and quickly understand dietary deta...

07/27/2026

“It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.” - Paul Graham
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07/27/2026

Kirk and Jacob McKinney started Junk Teens in 2021 as teenagers with a single pickup truck. A pair of working speakers found at a dump became $1,000 in Facebook Marketplace sales — and the business grew from there.

When revenue hit $1.2 million, the entire operation still ran on Apple Notes. Jacob was working 12-hour days managing everything himself with no time left to hire or build. The fix: split his role, promote a trusted employee to manager and finally work on the business instead of in it.

From there, the brothers built real systems — software for CRM, scheduling and employee management — and a teenage team member built the company's own app using Base44 and ChatGPT, featuring a leaderboard tracking revenue per hour and closing rates.

They trained employees to film daily operations on Meta Glasses and GoPros, building a social media presence that now has 213,000 TikTok followers, 269,000 on Instagram and 69,000 YouTube subscribers. Social media became both a marketing engine and a culture builder.

Junk Teens hit $3 million in revenue in 2025, operates eight trucks with 25 full-time employees across Greater Boston, Cape Cod and Rhode Island and is projecting $5 million this year. National expansion is next.

Their advice: there's no perfect roadmap. Start anyway.