Jay Costen Publications · Beverley + Manchester

Websites & apps for small businesses

One person. Every site built from scratch — no templates, no two alike. Live in about a week, from £750. UK-wide, remote anywhere.

Real products I run

In production · real users
AI price comparison
PriceScout
Web · iOS · Android

PriceScout

Snap a product, see who in the UK sells it cheapest. Stripe-recurring Pro tier, vision model, native wrapper for App Store + Play.

pricescout.cheap
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UK microlearning
Bytelore
Editorial · five-minute lessons

Bytelore

Five-minute lessons in literature, history and science — paywalled subscription, editorial typography, end-to-end Stripe.

bytelore.co.uk
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Founder portfolio
Jay Costen
Editorial · custom every component

Jay Costen — the site you'd judge me on

My own portfolio + lead-capture. 17 routes, 19-component editorial grammar, Sentient + General Sans typography, zero off-the-shelf bits.

jaycosten.co.uk
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Example builds — what you can have

Three trades · three completely different builds
Hair Studio
Marigold
& Sage
Editorial · online booking

Hair & beauty salon

Editorial, magazine-style layout with a side-rail nav and online booking — for salons, barbers, beauty & pet services.

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Kitchen & Coffee
The Copper
Kettle
Menu · table reservations

Café & restaurant

Bold, appetite-led design with a swipeable dish rail, framed menu and online table reservations — for cafés, bistros & food businesses.

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Trades & services
JS Plumbing
Click-to-call · enquiry capture

Trades & services

Bold, trust-building design with click-to-call and enquiry capture — for plumbers, electricians & builders.

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Six builds. Six completely different layouts, palettes, and type systems. No shared template, no shared component library. That's how every site here is made.

What it costs

Builds · fixed price, 50% deposit
Small
£750
£375 deposit to book

One strong page that gets you found and gets you called. Right for sole traders and anyone who currently has nothing at all.

  • One page, built mobile-first
  • Click-to-call and an enquiry form
  • Your photos, your words, your colours
  • Live in about a week
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Most picked Medium
£1,200
£600 deposit to book

The full small-business site. Room for your story, your services, your work and your reviews, plus the Google listing sorted so you turn up in the map results.

  • Up to three pages
  • Google Business Profile set up properly
  • Gallery or services grid
  • Enquiry form straight to your inbox
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Large
£1,950
£975 deposit to book

Six pages. For businesses with several services, locations or audiences to speak to, where one page each is the only way to do it justice.

  • Six pages
  • Everything in Medium
  • Online booking or quote form
  • Speed and accessibility pass before launch
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Keeping it running

Optional · cancel any time
Essential
£45 / month
Nothing breaks, and that's the job
  • Hosting and SSL certificate
  • Your domain renewed each year
  • Daily backups, kept off-site
  • Security and software updates
  • Uptime monitoring — I know it's down before you do
  • One small edit a month — a price, a photo, an opening time

No traffic report and no monthly call on this one. If you want to know what the site is actually doing for you, that's Partner.

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Most picked Partner
£75 / month
Everything above, plus a monthly sit-down
  • Everything in Essential, and edits aren't rationed
  • A call every month — what needs changing before next month, and we do it
  • Your traffic, in plain English: who came, what they searched for, which pages they read
  • How many enquiries the site produced, and where they came from
  • Seasonal changes handled for you — opening hours, offers, new services
  • Your changes jump the queue
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£175 / page

Need more pages than your tier covers? Add them at any point — before the build, during it, or a year later when the business has grown. Same price either way.

Half up front to book the slot, half when it goes live. No VAT to add — I'm a sole trader and not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. Anything bigger or more unusual, ask and I'll quote it.

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