Week 41 — Four reels, two new clients, and a site that died for 25 minutes
A client's site died on Friday at noon. By 12:25 it was back, and that was the least interesting thing that happened this week.
A client's site died on Friday at noon. By 12:25 it was back. That was the least interesting thing that happened this week.
Every Sunday I post my week here: what got built, what broke, and what you can take from it. Pictures first. Two minutes. Scroll.
Wins
First reels out of a new tool
My wife's florist, Bingo's own site, a client launch and a SabahGuide story. Same tool, four days. All four are further down.
Two new websites signed, deposits in
Both from the same referrer. Quotations out, project boards live, kick-offs planned before the weekend.
SabahGuide now sends leads to Bingo
Directory visitors can claim their listing, get a free check, and buy a fix. First time the media site and the agency are joined up. See it on a listing →
Best dentists in KK, done properly
Every clinic checked against the national register and real reviews. Plus hotel booking links on 30 KK hotels. The live page → · a hotel →
Proof on the site at last
The verified client count went live on Bingo's site, with two new case studies and the city council crest on the logo wall. Case study →
Built this week — and what it does
Two things left the workshop this week. Both are live. Both you can use.
1 · Four launch videos in four days. No editor, no invoice.
Four reels, four days, no editor. Press play.
Every website I launch now ships with its own reel. Here's what changed, and what it means if you run a business.
For you: a 20-second video of your real shop on WhatsApp status gets watched. A poster gets skipped. Want one? WhatsApp me →
2 · A free check that turns readers into clients
Tap any screen to open the real page.
SabahGuide gets the readers. Bingo does the work. For the first time, there's a path from one to the other, and it starts with a free check.
For you: run a business in Sabah? Find your listing and press the button. The check is free, no catch.
What broke, and how I fixed it
Tools I used this week
ClaudeEverything from the logs to this post
brag (GitHub)Website → vertical reel, free, open source
Nano Banana (Gemini)Images and the Ghibli family photos
PublerSchedules every social post I make
DeftformThe claim form above, no code
StripeOne payment link per offer, card only
Kokoro (GitHub)Free AI voice on the SabahGuide reel
Everything else that shipped
The curated bits are above. This is the full ledger, one line each, so future me can see how much a week holds.
- 18 rounds of fact fixes across hundreds of pages: park fees, permits, ethnic groups, hospitals, holidays, government offices.
- Directory honesty pass: no fake ratings on listings, 25 dead links fixed, 15 district pages redirected.
- Hotel booking buttons on 30 KK hotels, every link opened and checked by hand.
- Sabah This Week moved to a one-day Thursday build; issue #015 out on time, 6 posts each on Instagram and Facebook.
- Social posts redesigned to the 4:5 format; now the standard.
- Weekly diesel price page now updates itself from my Mac, first unattended run worked.
- Fact packs ready for the next four pages: Labuan ferry, Sabah train, KK tides, Inanam bus.
- Three new listing claims answered by email.
- An event company's site: sticky WhatsApp bar, lead tracking and reviews live; two client-facing reports sent.
- A city-council event site: daily speaker and delegate updates, six pushes, one urgent logo removal, post-event audit.
- A ferry terminal site: October update built, 27 images, three new operators, Malay and Chinese versions.
- A government investment site: Q4 brochure compressed from 31 MB to 6 MB and published.
- A dental clinic: Meta verification tag added, verified on every page.
- An accounting firm: tax pack delivered, onboarding questionnaire sent, Google Business Profile access granted.
- An oil-and-gas council: post-event audit and a renewal proposal drafted.
- Bingo's own lead form rebuilt: 12 questions, intention first.
- ChatGPT Ads account opened for Bingo, first campaign drafted, not yet live.
- A written role agreement for my client-relations manager, three rounds, 90-day review set.
- Bank reconciliation to 31 July: every line matched.
- Profitability index for the dashboard specified, 19 rules, three critic rounds.
- Three unlogged leads backfilled into the pipeline; one new referral lead researched.
- Bingo's site: verified client count on three pages, two case studies, city-council crest on the logo wall.
- Happy Florist: 1 November price list approved; one-click reorder link for anniversary emails built and audited.
- KK Florist v2: staging synced to live, order emails redesigned, cut-off rules restored to my wife's version.
- Bagasi: 54 hotel pages without a booking partner redirected, 271 themed lists rebuilt, monthly price refresh scheduled.
- HelloReply: demo page restyled; first reel for WhatsApp status.
- GoReview weekly check: 4.9★, 170 reviews, +3 this week; Google sync fixed.
Also used this week, beyond the cards above: Zoho Books, Google Search Console, Screpy, Apify, DataForSEO, Cloudflare Pages, SiteGround, Letterly, Whisper, ffmpeg, Google Drive, Gmail.
If you do one thing this week
Find the backup you could restore in 25 minutes.
Before you press Update on any plugin. Mine saved a client's site on Friday. If you don't know where yours is, that's the job for this week, not the update.
That’s my week. How was yours? Tell me on LinkedIn or in the comments on Substack. Next one lands next Sunday.