The Busy Bean

Full disclosure: I'm a regular at The Busy Bean. It's a real coworking café in Dasmariñas, Cavite, and it's where a lot of my work — including parts of this portfolio — actually gets written, one iced latte at a time. So when the café needed a website, I wasn't guessing at requirements. I was the requirements.

The result is their marketing and operations site: a menu showcase, Mailchimp email subscriptions, and a password-protected admin dashboard on Supabase that lets the owners run everything themselves — no developer required after handoff.

Being a customer first changed what got built. I knew the menu items people photograph, the questions first-timers ask, and the fact that the owners would rather update a price from their phone than message a developer. The site leads with what sells the place — the food, the space, the vibe — and buries nothing behind a contact form.

Café menus drift — prices move, items sell out, seasonal drinks appear. A static site goes stale in a month. Here the menu is data, rendered live, and owned by the people behind the counter.

The whole point of the build is the password-protected admin dashboard. Behind a custom auth gate, the owners can:

The site is live and self-sustaining — which is the entire success metric. My ongoing involvement is strictly as a customer. If you're ever in Dasmariñas: the iced latte on the slate coaster is the correct order.