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A full Jamaican hot-sauce store and a complete business platform — rebuilt from an ancient, half-broken site into something that finally matches the sauce.
🌶️ Launching soon at catchafirespicy.com
Norman runs Catch A Fire Spicy — authentic Jamaican hot sauces, jerk seasonings and marinades out of Clearwater, Florida. He's a friend of John B's, and he came to me with a familiar problem.
His store lived on an ancient Joomla setup that had quietly fallen apart — the front page threw errors while an old deep link still worked, so half the time the site looked down. Great sauce, no storefront. He needed a real one.
55 real products across seven categories, each with heat levels, reviews and a "shop by heat" finder; cart and checkout with PayPal (plus Venmo, Zelle and more when he wants them); flat, weight-based and real-carrier shipping (USPS/UPS/FedEx/DHL) and full international shipping with customs paperwork — he ships worldwide, a lot to Canada and Jamaica; and a live 100-plus-language translator so any customer reads it in their own language.
Everything he needs to run the business: inventory, accounting with P&L and Florida sales-tax reports, wholesale accounts, a "Heat Club" subscription, a Market POS for selling at flea markets and pepper festivals, discount codes, bundles and gift sets, customers/CRM, a blog, FAQ, a "where to buy" map, a front-page editor (he edits the whole homepage himself), a media library with an AI product-photo studio, an email center, an activity log, and a plain-English guide written just for him.
Clean PHP and MySQL — no page-builder, no framework — mobile-first and hardened, with extreme SEO baked in (product, food-business and FAQ structured data, sitemaps, IndexNow). And built to be genuinely easy to run: big, clear controls and a plain-English guide that walks through every tool. Right in the admin there's even a one-tap link to Tandy Services AI (owner-only) so the owner can ask questions about his own website and get plain answers.
Another one from the circle around John B's. A brand with real heat finally has a store to match — modern, worldwide, and entirely his.