Home of QuickSite — fast, affordable websites for small local businesses.

Hollow Studios is a South African web development studio built around a simple idea: small businesses deserve real, professional websites without agency-level prices or timelines. We're a solo, AI-accelerated operation — using modern tooling (Claude Code) alongside a lean, modern tech stack to deliver genuinely custom, hand-coded sites at a fraction of typical cost and turnaround.

Hollow Studios is built as a parent brand. QuickSite is our first product, but the intent is for future products to launch under the same name as the studio grows.

QuickSite is Hollow Studios' flagship offering: professional, mobile-friendly websites for restaurants, tradespeople, salons, retailers, and other small local businesses — delivered fast and priced for the businesses that need them most.

• Many small businesses have no website, or an outdated one, because typical agency pricing (often R15,000–R60,000+) feels disproportionate to their size.
• DIY builders (Wix, Squarespace) are cheaper but time-consuming, and often produce generic-looking results busy owners don't have time to build themselves.
• Freelancers exist, but pricing and turnaround vary wildly, and speed is often limited by not using AI-assisted tooling.

• Fast turnaround — most sites delivered in days, not weeks, using reusable template scaffolds plus AI-assisted content integration.
• Real, hand-coded sites — not a locked-in drag-and-drop platform. Fast-loading, mobile-first, and genuinely owned by the client.
• Affordable, transparent pricing — positioned below typical market rates while remaining a real, custom-coded product.
• Ongoing care plans — so clients aren't left with a site nobody can update once we're done.

• Restaurants, cafés & takeaways needing a menu, hours, and location page.
• Trades & services (electricians, plumbers, salons, photographers) needing a portfolio and contact page.
• Small retailers wanting a simple online presence.
• Community organisations, churches, and small NGOs needing a basic informational site.

• Framework: Next.js (React)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• Content: Structured JSON/Markdown per client — no database needed for most sites
• Hosting: Netlify / Vercel, free tier for the vast majority of client sites
• Development: AI-assisted via Claude Code, built on a reusable template library so every new site is a customisation, not a rebuild from scratch

Every client's domain is registered in their own name and account — never ours — and every client gets a short written agreement before work begins, covering scope, price, revisions, and ownership.

• hq — the main repo containing the QuickSite template library, all client site builds, and Hollow Studios' own portfolio site.

For enquiries about a QuickSite build, reach out via [contact details / link here].