Your app finally has paying customers — congratulations. Now comes the less exciting part: figuring out how much of that revenue you actually keep after Apple and Google take their cut. A lot of new developers price their app, in-app purchases, or subscription based on the sticker price, then get blindsided when the deposit that …
AI startup news moved fast this week, the last full week before TechCrunch Disrupt. Anthropic shipped a much cheaper small model, Mistral and Reflection AI both put out huge open-weight models, Manus raised its first round since the Meta deal fell apart, and Cloudflare bought the company behind Deno. If you build apps, run a …
Picking a CRM usually comes down to two very different philosophies, and Keap and HubSpot sit on opposite ends of that spectrum. Keap bundles contact management, email/SMS marketing, pipelines, scheduling, and invoicing into one tightly integrated tool built for owner-operated service businesses. HubSpot takes a modular approach, starting with a free CRM and letting you …
If you’re tired of back-and-forth emails to book a meeting or appointment, Calendly and Acuity Scheduling are the two names you’ll run into first. Both let clients book time on your calendar without the endless ‘does Tuesday work?’ thread, but they’re built for slightly different kinds of businesses. This guide breaks down how the two …
You launched the new site expecting compliments, and instead your analytics dashboard looks like it fell off a cliff. A traffic drop right after a redesign is one of the most common (and most fixable) problems in web development — it almost always traces back to a handful of well-known culprits, not some mysterious Google …
Partnering with another business down the street can double your reach for almost no cash outlay — but most attempts flop because they read as two companies politely advertising at each other. The businesses people actually talk about are the ones whose partnerships feel like a genuine favor to the customer, not a transaction between …
Here’s this week’s GTStudios roundup — 12 items across Web & Design, Small Business Tech, AI for Business, Marketing & SEO. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Web & Design A Practical Guide To Naming Things A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. Smashing Magazine …
Divi has been one of WordPress’s most recognizable visual builders for over a decade, but it’s not the only option, and for a lot of site owners, it’s no longer the best fit. Maybe you want a genuinely free builder to start with, leaner code that loads faster, or simply a different editing workflow than …
If your site feels sluggish, especially on mobile, images are one of the first places to look. A single unoptimized photo can be several megabytes, while the rest of a typical page — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — often adds up to a fraction of that. Oversized, wrong-format, or poorly-loaded images are one of the most …
AI startup news moved fast in the week ending October 4, 2026. OpenAI shipped a much cheaper frontier model and shelved a riskier one. A personal-assistant startup raised a billion dollars. Shopify showed what building a store by chat looks like. Reddit said it will close its public API to AI scrapers. If you build …
If you’re building a small business website and already own two tabs — one for Webflow, one for Elementor — you’re not alone. Both let you design visually without writing code, both are popular with freelancers and agencies, and both can produce a genuinely professional site. But they solve the problem in very different ways, …
If you’re staring down a website redesign and trying to figure out when it’ll actually be done, you’re not alone — it’s one of the most common questions business owners ask before a project even starts. The honest answer is “it depends,” but that’s not very useful when you’re trying to plan a launch around …
Here’s this week’s GTStudios roundup — 12 items across Web & Design, Small Business Tech, AI for Business, Marketing & SEO. Every story links to its original source. The TLDR Web & Design #234 – K. Adam White on Migrating to Blocks With Artisanal Care and Enterprise Efficiency Today I'm talking with K. Adam White …
Framer and Wix keep showing up in the same breath because they solve the “get my business online” problem from opposite directions. Framer grew out of a design tool built for professional designers and agencies; Wix grew into an all-in-one operating system that millions of small businesses use to sell, book, and market, not just …
AI startup news moved fast this week. AI agents showed up inside messaging apps, voice assistants, phone dialers and Amazon’s seller dashboard, while investors put hundreds of millions into training data, enterprise automation and AI-first drug discovery. Here’s our AI startup news roundup for the week ending September 27, 2026: the product launches, funding rounds …
Getting a customer to buy once is expensive. Getting them to come back is where small businesses make their money, and a text message is one of the most direct ways to nudge them. Texts get seen quickly, they feel personal, and they work well for the kind of simple, timely prompts that bring people …
Most in-store customers walk out without ever giving you a way to reach them again. A QR code on the counter lets people join your email list in seconds, on their own phone, without a clipboard or a staff member typing addresses into a spreadsheet. This guide covers the whole setup: building a short signup …
Choosing a website builder feels like a small decision until you’re six months in, your site is live, and moving it means rebuilding it. Wix, Squarespace and Webflow are three of the best-known options. They look similar in ads, but they are built for different kinds of people. This guide explains who each platform suits, …
When you build a site on Wix, Squarespace, Shopify, or a similar platform, you’re usually offered a domain name in the same checkout flow. It’s convenient — one bill, one dashboard, done in five minutes. But that convenience can quietly cost you flexibility later, especially if you ever want to switch platforms, add email, or …
If your Google Business Profile hasn’t had a new post in a month, you’re leaving free visibility on the table. An actively managed profile looks fresher to customers and gives them more reasons to call, visit, or book when they find you in the local pack or on Maps. This guide breaks down how often …