Hoʻolālā
Works Story Contact
SMALL KINE
STUDIO,
FAST KINE SITES

Six of us above a print shop on Bethel Street. We build websites for local businesses — design, code, and support after launch. No offshore team, no page-builder shortcuts.

[ team photo — studio, Bethel St ]
Why we
started
dis thing

In 2019, Kekoa spent a Sunday fixing his auntie's restaurant site. The mainland agency that built it charged four hundred dollars a month, took two weeks to change a phone number, and served the menu as a photo of a PDF.

That's the whole reason we opened. Local businesses deserve sites that load fast on a phone at the beach park, that they can update themselves, and that someone in the same time zone will answer the phone about.

We take about eight projects a year. Not because we like turning work away, but because that's how the work stays good.

How we
work 'em

Six to ten weeks from start to launch for most sites. You'll see something real every week.

01.Talk story — we sit down, look at your numbers, and figure out what the site needs to doWeek 1
02.Map the pages — structure and content before any visual designWeek 2
03.Design the key screens — home and the page that makes money, mobile firstWeek 3–4
04.Build it — hand-coded or Shopify, with a CMS you can actually useWeek 5–8
05.Launch and stay — training, hosting, and we answer the phone afterwardOngoing
Kekoa Māhoe
Founder / design direction
Leilani Kaʻōpua
Web design lead
Ikaika Souza
Front-end & Shopify
What we build with
Design
Figma
Design systems
Mobile-first layout
Build
Astro / Next.js
Hand-written CSS
Sanity CMS
Commerce
Shopify themes
Subscriptions
Wholesale portals
After launch
Hosting & backups
Speed monitoring
Same-week edits
40
Sites launched since 2019
06
People in the studio
1.4s
Median load, our sites
04
Islands worked
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Hoʻolālā. Design studio — Honolulu, Hawaiʻi
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