LooksLab
A store that turned into the whole business.
- Year
- 2026
- Industry
- Commerce platform
- Role
- Sole developer
- Services
- Design, Development, Platform
- Live
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Overview
LooksLab sells research-grade compounds, and it does it without a card processor. That one constraint meant the checkout, the order lifecycle and every message a customer receives had to be built rather than bought.
Built with
- React
- Vite
- Cloudflare Workers
- D1
- React Router
- Resend
- Discord API
Choose a rail
- Zelle Bank transfer
- Cash App $cashtag
- Venmo @handle
- PayPal Invoice
- Apple Pay Direct
Invoice generated · verified by hand
- 01
The challenge
Five manual payment methods, none of which confirm themselves. A loyalty scheme and a referral programme that both have to settle honestly against payments a human verified by hand. Staff beyond the owner, so every action needs a paper trail. And the whole thing has to be resellable under someone else’s name without a developer touching it.
- 02
The approach
Everything runs on Cloudflare’s edge — a React SPA and a separate API Worker over a D1 database, with no servers to keep alive. Branding is data, not code: logos, copy, SEO, even the artwork baked into product photos and outgoing email all read from admin settings, so a second brand is a fresh deploy rather than a fork. On top sits the part nobody demos — fulfilment tools built for speed, a receipt breakdown showing staff exactly how a discount, points and store credit reached the final number, and an audit log behind every edit.
- 03
The result
A storefront, a loyalty engine, a referral engine with a fraud queue, customer accounts, staff tooling, a revenue console and a public status page, running as one system on infrastructure that costs nothing at rest.
By the numbers
- 5
- Payment rails
- 0
- Servers to maintain
- 100%
- White-label
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01 Checkout — five manual rails -
02 Operations dashboard -
03 Revenue console -
04 Order fulfilment -
05 Loyalty — Protocol Points -
06 Referrals & fraud queue -
07 Live-preview content editor -
08 Public order tracking -
09 Status page -
10 Audit log
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