Kumo Tea House & Kiln
Tea house and kiln · Bainbridge Island, Washington
A Beautiful Site, LLC · Est. 2007
A Beautiful Site is an independent software development and design studio in Winter Garden, Florida.
Founded and operated by Cory LaViska, a full-stack engineer, designer, and open source creator. We work with a small group of clients, near and far, who care about the details as much as we do. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.
What we do
Services
design
Web Design
Clean, accessible websites you can edit yourself with Surreal CMS, no training required
build
Web Applications
Full-stack development of modern, standards-based web apps
scale
Design Systems
Component libraries, web components, and scalable UI architecture
launch
SaaS Products
From concept to launch, with years of experience running production SaaS
craft
macOS Applications
Focused native apps built for the Apple ecosystem
share
Open Source
Building and maintaining open source software used by millions
From the studio
Recent design work
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Record shop · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Marlowe
Picture palace · Saint Paul, Minnesota
From the lab
Selected projects
Surreal CMS
A hosted content management system that's managed 80,000+ websites and published 1,000,000 pages since 2008.
Shoelace
An open source web component library with billions of monthly CDN hits. Acquired by Font Awesome in 2022.
TongueType
A macOS app that lets you type by talking, focused on speed, accuracy, and getting out of the way.
ColorCopy
A macOS app for selecting colors from the screen and checking contrast.
From the blog
Latest writing
I'd Rather Review Specs
AI pull requests dump sorting work on maintainers. Specs are easier to review and a lot more useful.
Most Software Was Already Slop
Human-written software was already mostly slop, so AI only has to match that standard, and industries will take faster and cheaper over craft every time.
FOUCE Should Be the Browser's Problem
One missing signal from the browser, and everything downstream of it.
Founder-led since 2007
About the Studio
A Beautiful Site, LLC is an independent software development and design studio based in Winter Garden, Florida. No sprawling teams. No layers of management. Just seasoned hands who care deeply about the craft.