About The Tip Jar Project

The Tip Jar Project is a custom web design and development studio that builds professional, high-performing websites for small businesses, solo founders, and local service providers. The studio specializes in the custom functionality most agencies upcharge for — online booking, payments and checkout, customer portals, memberships, scheduling, automations, and third-party API integrations. Whether a business needs a brand-new site, a redesign, or new features added to an existing one, the work is built from scratch around that business, never a cookie-cutter template with a logo swapped in.

Pricing is fixed and upfront. There is no hourly billing, no surprise invoices, and no agency markup — one straight number agreed before a single line of code is written. The process is intentionally simple: you describe what you need, you receive a clear quote, the site gets built, and together you review and launch it. Every project is scoped around what the business actually does, so the finished site fits how real work gets done day to day.

The Tip Jar Project is built and run by Austin, a developer who does this work for the love of the craft. Every project is handled personally — from the first conversation through launch — so clients always talk to the person actually building their site. The goal is simple: give regular businesses a website that looks incredible, genuinely works, and doesn't cost a fortune. That's the Tip Jar way.