A Southend-on-Sea web studio · Essex · London · Remote UK-wide

See your new website before you spend a penny.

Tell us about your business and we will build a free demo of your new site: a live page, fully bespoke, with your content. No deposit, no obligation, no sales calls. Love it and it is live within 7 days. Do not love it and you keep the design anyway.

★★★★★Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews on Google.Read what clients say

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Work

Live sites, doing their jobs.

Every screenshot links to the case study. Every domain opens the real, live site a real business runs on.

The ONE94 website homepage, showing the Leigh-on-Sea venue's booking and events platform

Fig. 1 The ONE94 website homepage, showing the Leigh-on-Sea venue's booking and events platform

booking and payments · websites

ONE94

Hourly darts and shuffleboard bookings, live availability and Stripe payments, built to run themselves for a small Leigh-on-Sea venue.

The Elite Build & Co website homepage, a loft conversion and extension builder in south Essex

Fig. 2 The Elite Build & Co website homepage, a loft conversion and extension builder in south Essex

Website design and build · Cost calculator · AI assistant

Elite Build & Co

Twelve published guide prices, an extension cost calculator that needs no contact details and an automated assistant, built for a firm with no reviews yet.

The GeWiz Fashion online shop homepage with its product catalogue

Fig. 4 The GeWiz Fashion online shop homepage with its product catalogue

Ecommerce · Design and build · Stripe payments · Admin dashboard

GeWiz Fashion

An independent streetwear label selling direct from its own domain, with Stripe checkout and a back office the owner runs alone.

The Bigs BBQ site with its live-fire menu and packages

Fig. 6 The Bigs BBQ site with its live-fire menu and packages

websites · booking and payments

Bigs BBQ

A one-page live-fire menu with prices that flip between private and corporate rates, and a composer that writes the WhatsApp booking message for the customer.

All 13 case studies, including our own apps

Services

Websites built to get you booked, called and ordered from.

  1. WebsitesPages that earn their keep
  2. Booking and paymentsSell time, take money, sleep
  3. iOS and Android appsNative on iPhone and Android
  4. AI featuresOnly where it earns its place
  5. Drone photo and videoYour place, from the air
  6. Care plansKept fast, backed up, watched
  7. SEOFound by the people already searching

Method

Three steps. No theatre.

We talk

A call, a coffee or a WhatsApp thread: whatever suits. You tell us what the site has to do for you. We build a free demo with your content, then put a firm number in writing before anything starts.

I build

You deal with the person doing the work, not an account manager. Most sites go live within 7 days of sign-off because the studio is built around finishing, not queuing.

You own it

Design, code, content, source files: all yours, handed over on completion. No hostage hosting, no rental fees, and a 60-day guarantee in writing.

The 7-day promise, honestly: it starts when the brief and content are agreed, and it holds because one careful pair of hands does the work end to end. Bigger builds get a written timeline instead.

The Lab

We build our own products too.

Which is why client work ships properly. Both are live on the App Store now.

The Shout app icon from the App Store

Shout

A social platform across iOS, Android, web and admin.

The Railway Departure Board app icon from the App Store

Railway Departure Board

Live rail departures for 2,500+ UK stations.

Download Railway Departure Board on the App Store

The studio

Southend born. London serious.

Based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, working across Leigh-on-Sea, Westcliff, Chalkwell, Thorpe Bay, Shoeburyness, Rayleigh and beyond: Essex, London and the South East in person, the rest of the UK remotely.

Know someone who needs this? £100 when their site goes live.

Clients

In their words.

“Luke at Own Time Studios created a fantastic webpage for me. After just a 20-minute phone call, I had a fully finished site by the end of the day that far exceeded my expectations. He also sorted out the domain emails and offered helpful free advice on other matters. Extremely reasonable, quick to respond to any questions, and a pleasure to work with. I highly recommend Luke and his team, and I’m already looking forward to working with him on future projects.”

Allyx Palmer · Elite Build & CoFive star Google review

“Luke is a true gentleman, very knowledgeable, very helpfull and does his work with passion. He does not just leave you in limbo but gives his full support, the new website he did for me is spot on. Very highly recommended”

Rocco Di Leone · GustosiFive star Google review

“Amazing service by Luke. Will definitely reccomend in the future”

Chris Austin · Industrial BarbersFive star Google review

“Great friend help from start to finish. Really cared about this issues I had with my website and helped from start to finish to solve all problems. I would recommend as very fairly priced. Thank you Luke.”

Reece Hope · 8music.co.ukFive star Google review

Rated 5.0 from 9 reviews on Google. Read them all

Tell me what you need. I will tell you exactly what it costs.