Deploy Marketing · every maker site ships with this

The “We’re here” button.

One tap when they set up the tent. Their website flips to live, tells customers exactly where the tent is, and hands them walking directions off their phone’s GPS. Six hours later it turns itself off. Nobody logs in. Nothing to maintain — not them, not you.

Side by side

Owner’s phone vs. customer’s phone

Left is the private owner page (/here) they get texted once. Right is what everybody else sees at the top of the website. These two phones are wired together — tap the buttons on the left and watch the right.

Interactive — tap WE’RE HERE, then PIN MY TENT
OwnerRobert, Dough Daddy 1961 · his phone, Saturday 7:20 am
Your booth

Dough Daddy 1961

⚪ Not live right nowCustomers see your hours instead.
CustomerAnyone who opens dough-daddy-1961 on their phone
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Not at the market right nowNext: Saturday 7:30 at the Bentonville square
Artisan sourdough · Bentonville, Arkansas

Two years on the recipe.
Worth every crumb.

Naturally leavened sourdough, English muffins, challah, scones and baguettes, baked in small batches and sold at the farmers market while they're still warm.
Shop & orderFind us Saturday
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One tap = live

The green button sets the site to “We’re at the market right now.” The little “where’s the tent” line is optional — most will leave it blank.

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Pin = phone GPS

PIN MY TENT asks the phone for its location once and saves that exact spot. No map to fiddle with, no address to type.

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Customer gets “Walk me there”

That button opens Apple Maps (iPhone) or Google Maps (Android) already in walking mode, pointed at the pin. Works from the parking lot.

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Turns itself off

Live expires 6 hours after the tap. If they forget DONE FOR TODAY, nothing breaks. When it’s off, customers see the hours line instead.

Setup — once, at the booth

How the owner gets it

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1. You text them a private link

Every site has its own secret link — site.com/here?k=…. It’s in that site’s README. Text it, don’t post it.

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2. They add it to their Home Screen

Open the link in Safari → Share → Add to Home Screen. It becomes an icon called “Booth.” Takes 20 seconds; do it with them at the tent.

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3. Market morning: one tap

Tap the icon, tap WE’RE HERE. First Saturday, also tap PIN MY TENT while standing under the tent. Done until they pack up.

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4. Nothing else, ever

No login, no password, no app to update. The link remembers itself on their phone. If they lose it, you text it again.

For you, not for them

What’s under the hood

Where the “live” state lives

One tiny record per site in Netlify’s built-in storage (Blobs). The customer page reads it on every load; the owner page writes it. Free tier covers it many times over.

Why it’s safe without a login

The owner link carries a random 24-character key. The site only accepts a change if the key matches the one set on that site. Wrong key → nothing happens. Customers never see the key; the public page is read-only.

What the pin actually is

Latitude/longitude from the phone, saved with a timestamp. Customers never see raw numbers — they see a “Walk me there” button that opens their maps app in walking mode.

What you maintain

Nothing. It ships baked into every maker site (Sioux Creek Forge, Dough Daddy, Blondie’s, Tony’s, Crust & Crumb all have it live). New builds get it from the template automatically.

Say it at the booth

“Your website knows if you’re here right now. You tap one button when you set up. Customers see you’re open and get walking directions straight to your tent — I haven’t seen anyone else in NWA doing that.”

See the customer side live: siouxcreekforge.com dough-daddy-1961 tonys-ozark-woodworks