I've been building fivedaylaunch for the past couple of months. This is my first DEV post, so figured I'd share what we're doing and what I've been learning.

The idea

Local service businesses — plumbers, salons, cafes, dentists, photographers — usually end up in one of two bad spots:

Try Wix/Squarespace and give up after two weekends because they don't have time to learn a builder, or

Pay a local agency $2,500–$8,000 upfront for a site that still looks generic