WebsitesSpiffyDuck
Done-for-you websites for local businesses. Designed, built and maintained for a flat monthly price.
Livespiffyduck.com
Hines Industries
We turn professional expertise into software everyone can afford.
Independent software company · Chicago
Why we exist
We started Hines Industries because the same thing kept being true.
The people who need expertise most can afford it least.
A hotel chain employs a revenue manager; the host with one listing prices by guessing. A national brand retains an agency; the shop on the corner gets a template. The structure a good therapist brings to a difficult conversation costs more per hour than most couples will ever spend on their relationship.
The real problem
None of that is a knowledge problem. The expertise exists, it is well understood, and most of what an expert does with it is repeatable. It is a distribution problem — the expertise is locked inside people whose time is expensive and finite.
How we operate
So we build it into software instead. Not advice about the work: the work. We are engineers, we build our products in-house, and we run them ourselves — which means when something breaks, the person who wrote it answers the email.
We are small on purpose and we say so plainly. We would rather operate a few things properly than many things badly.
Three products. One operating principle.
What we do
A web design agency. A hotel revenue manager. A couples therapist. All of them sell expertise most people need and almost nobody can afford continuously. We are engineers — we build that expertise into software, powered by AI where it earns its keep, and we run it ourselves.
What we own and what we’re building
Websites
Revenue managementRateLiftr
Automatic nightly pricing for short-term rentals. The revenue management big hotels run, for hosts with one listing.
In development
RelationshipsMirror
Guided relationship work for couples. The structure a good therapist brings, available on a Tuesday night.
In development
Mirror is guided structure for conversations couples have themselves. It does not diagnose or treat, it is not therapy, and it is not a substitute for professional care.
The company
- Legal name
- Hines Industries
- Registered address
- 1449 S Michigan Ave #1045, Chicago, IL 60605
- Ownership
- Independent. We build and operate our own products.
- Products
- SpiffyDuck (live). RateLiftr and Mirror (in development).
Contact
hello@hines.industriesOne address, read by the people who build the products. Partnership, press and product questions all land in the same place.