Cafés & Coffee
Coffee Shop
A café ordering app with a menu, item detail, favorites, cart and account screens.
Practical technology for independent businesses
Websites, Apps &Custom Software.
Built around the way your business works.
Daystar Creations builds branded business applications, websites and custom software for independent businesses, so you can serve customers better and simplify everyday work.
Personalized Launchpad apps start at $750 one-time (current promotion; planned regular price $1,200). Hosting and add-ons are separate. Not sure what you need? Start here.
Explore all 12 interactive app demosReal screenshot · Beauty Gallery owner portal
Choose a starting point
What do you need your technology to do?
Help customers find my business online
Explain your services, hours and work, and give customers a clear way to contact you.
Website Development & SEOManage bookings, customers or workflows
Bring customer accounts, bookings or staff processes into a browser-based system.
Web Apps & Business SoftwareGive customers or staff a phone app
Explore a dedicated mobile app when a website cannot meet the need.
Mobile App DevelopmentNot sure which path fits? Start with the business problem; the guide explains the tradeoffs.
Start HereDaystar Launchpad · 12 app design models
Explore an interactive app demo.
Try each model with sample content. Demos use fictional businesses and data. Carts, checkout, bookings and order tracking are simulated: no payment is taken and no order is placed, and nothing is sent to a live backend.
Current Launchpad promotion: $750. Planned regular price $1,200. Hosting, add-ons and ongoing support are separate. Review the offer and scope before choosing a model.
Offer details
Laundry & Dry Cleaning
Laundry Service
A laundry service app with service details, a new order flow, order history and addresses.
Lawn & Landscape
Lawn Care
A lawn care app with services, property details, quote requests and job tracking.
Convenience Stores
Quick Shop
A convenience store shopping app with products, favorites, cart, checkout and orders.
Grocery
Grocery Store
A grocery shopping app with categories, search, shopping lists, cart and orders.
Fashion & Apparel
Boutique Retail
A fashion retail app with discovery, product detail, favorites, bag and order screens.
Automotive Care
Auto Paint & Detail
An automotive service app with services, booking requests, jobs and job detail screens.
Gyms & Studios
Gym & Fitness
A fitness app with classes, schedule, instructor details and bookings.
Pet Grooming
Pet Grooming
A grooming app with services, booking, appointments, pets and profile screens. Its source includes a browser-only demo mode.
Pizza & Italian Restaurants
Peppa’s Pizza
A restaurant ordering app design model for browsing pizzas, customizing a pie, reviewing a sample cart and following a fictional order.
Salon & Beauty
Salon & Beauty
A rebrandable salon app for service discovery, stylist profiles, local booking requests, customer appointments and business details.
Food Truck
Food Truck & Mobile Ordering
A configurable mobile-kitchen app with a fictional menu, item customization, pickup request simulation, locations, specials and catering inquiry.
Practical by design
Technology should make the business easier to run.
Built around the business
Start with the work customers and staff need to do, then scope the appropriate website, application or connected system.
Scope before build
Features, price, third-party costs and delivery expectations are documented before the project is approved.
Ownership terms in writing
The project agreement identifies customer-specific source code and the deliverables included in the handoff.
Operating costs stay visible
Hosting, external subscriptions and ongoing support are shown separately from one-time development.
Public sites prepared for discovery
Eligible public website projects include SEO-ready technical foundations in the agreed scope. Crawlability and deployment details depend on the hosting platform and must be verified.
A clear next step
If a simpler subscription tool is a better fit, the comparison can end there. Custom work is not the answer to every problem.
06 / Front Lines
A Real Independent Business. A System Built Around It.
Founding story: the first business Daystar built for. Everything here is real — the owner, the salon, the system.
Case file 001 · Field reportFounding transformation · Status: live
Beauty Gallery Salon
Owner: Jacqueline Matos
2427 Pleasant Hill Rd, Kissimmee, FL 34746
Situation
An independent salon serving its community in Kissimmee, Florida — owned and run by Jacqueline Matos.
Disadvantage
Beauty Gallery Salon relied on third-party booking software and disconnected subscriptions, with limited visibility into the business and marketing that required constant manual work.
Build
A connected system built around how the salon actually operates:
- Branded website & live booking calendar
- Real, priced service catalog
- Customer accounts (Google, Apple, email)
- Owner dashboard with AI assistant
- Marketing automation tools
Current state
Beauty Gallery runs its booking, customer accounts, owner portal and marketing tools on the system Daystar built, live at beautygallerysalon.com.
Field quote
“It took a lot of courage to get it going and stick it out — there is no quitting after you've come all this way.”
Jacqueline Matos · Owner, Beauty Gallery Salon
Beauty GallerySample
- 1. Service
- 2. Stylist
- 3. Date & time
- 4. Confirm
Step 1 of 4: Service
Choose a service
Every Daystar package includes a Business Backstory interview with the owner, so the person behind the business is part of the story. Explore Business Backstory →
A clear process
From first conversation to launch
- 01Understand the need
- 02Choose an approach
- 03Confirm scope
- 04Design and build
- 05Test and review
- 06Launch when authorized
Founding-client program
THE FOUNDING 5
Five businesses. Exclusive founding-client pricing. One extraordinary beginning.
Submitting an inquiry does not reserve a founding-client position. Availability and eligibility are confirmed during consultation and upon execution of an approved project agreement.
DISCOVER THE FOUNDING 5$3,500
$2,500
Founding client price
Limited to five founding businesses.
Separate offers, clear scope
Choose the right pricing path.
Separate App Design Model offer
Daystar Launchpad
A one-location app personalized from a selected model, with two design directions and written scope approval before payment.
$750 current promotion · planned regular price $1,200
Review scope and detailsSeparately scoped development
Custom Systems
Connected business technology is scoped by location and confirmed features. The agreement defines project deliverables and handoff.
$3,500 for one location; $5,000 for two; $6,500 for three (planned regular $7,500).
Review scope and detailsPublic website or visibility review
Websites & SEO
A standalone website is scoped to its pages and needs. SEO-ready technical foundations are included for eligible public website projects within the agreed scope, subject to platform verification.
Request a scope; no fixed standalone website price is published.
Review scope and detailsWebsite hosting is intended from $20/month; application hosting starts at $39/month with included monthly integration credits. The services have different scopes and remain inquiry-only pending measured costs and G5 approval. Domains, third-party services, ongoing support and custom engineering are separate. See hosting plans or Launchpad package details.
Business Software Buyer's Guide
Understand the market before you decide.
Compare custom software built for your business with software you subscribe to. The guide includes platforms and builders that may suit you better, plus a short questionnaire to help you decide.
Five ways to get software
Subscriptions, AI builders, prebuilt or white-label products, freelance development and commissioned custom software.
18 featured providers
Compare Daystar with 17 alternatives, and browse 10 other researched options with sources and dates.
A long-term cost calculator
See estimated spending over 5, 10 or 15 years, including where a subscription costs less.
10 / Support
Ongoing Partnership
We Don't Disappear After Launch.
Every Daystar system includes Core Care at no monthly charge, including basic technical support and critical bug-fix support. Your written project terms define which software defects are covered and how corrections are handled. Paid plans add support priority and ongoing assistance; new features and expanded requirements are scoped separately.
Included With Every Daystar System
Daystar Core Care
$0/month
For businesses that want the confidence of knowing Daystar is still there when they need us.
- Basic technical support via Work Orders
- Standard Work Order queue
- Critical Daystar-built bug fixes
- Critical security fixes
- App / system compatibility maintenance
- Up to 2 minor update requests per year
- Annual system health review
Included With Your System
Essential Support
$50/month
For businesses that want regular maintenance and easier access to Daystar as their system evolves.
- Everything in Core Care
- Standard, faster technical support
- Enhanced Work Order priority
- Up to 1 minor update request per month
- Quarterly system health review
- Basic optimization recommendations
- Support configuring existing features
Most Popular
Growth Support
$149/month
For businesses that want their technology continuously helping the business grow.
- Everything in Essential Support
- Priority support queue & Work Orders
- Monthly system health review
- Expanded minor improvement allowance
- Marketing & AI marketing assistance
- Automation assistance
- Monthly analytics review
- Customer retention optimization
Premium
Technology Partner
$299/month
For businesses that want Daystar to function like the technology department they never had.
- Everything in Growth Support
- Highest-priority support & Work Orders
- Proactive system reviews
- Expanded monthly improvement allowance
- Advanced marketing & automation support
- Advanced analytics & performance review
- Technology roadmap
- Quarterly technology strategy session
You Own The Business. You Shouldn't Have To Become The IT Department.
Every Daystar client has somewhere to turn. Core Care keeps that relationship in place at no monthly cost. As your business grows, Essential, Growth and Technology Partner give you increasing levels of support, improvement and strategic help.
Choose Your Support LevelStart with the business need
Not sure where to start? Let's talk.
Tell us what you want your customers or team to be able to do. We can help you compare a straightforward tool with a website, application or custom project before you decide.
11 / FAQ
Mission intelligence / 10 files
Frequently Asked Questions
Plain answers on scope, ownership, pricing and support. Select a file to read it; terms are always confirmed in your written project scope.