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Happy Bamboo

Happy Bamboo sells bamboo toilet tissue out of Detroit. I moved her shop from WordPress to SimplePress, the storefront platform I built, and I still help her run it.

Client
Happy Bamboo
Location
Detroit, Michigan
Kind of work
Store build + ongoing support
Through
Artisanal Futures · Center for Generative Justice
Stack
SimplePress, my storefront platform · Stripe payments

The brief

Happy Bamboo is a Detroit business selling 100% bamboo, tree-free toilet tissue, with plans to grow into other bamboo household products. Online, it started as Zaire's Visions — first a one-page GoDaddy site with a contact form, then a WordPress site that never seemed to get finished. She was always still building it, and neither one could take an order.

She's a participant in Artisanal Futures, which is how we met in March 2026. She needed a shop that was simply done — products, checkout, policies — and something she could keep up herself without calling me for every change.

What I built

Set up her shop on SimplePress, the storefront platform I built for Artisanal Futures and Center for Generative Justice participants
Designed the storefront: homepage, about, blog, and contact pages
Listed her product line and pricing, from 12-roll packs to the 144-roll value pack
Connected Stripe so customers can check out and pay online
Set up her shipping, refund, privacy, and terms pages
Ran hands-on sessions to refine the shop together, and taught her to make changes on her own

A closer look

Before & after

Happy Bamboo storefront homepage today
Zaire's Visions one-page GoDaddy site, April 2025
Before · Apr 2025After · today

Before: zairesvisions.org as archived by the Wayback Machine, April 2025. The WordPress version that followed wasn't archived.

Zero → live
Online orders
March
First meeting, 2026
April
Store launched, 2026
May
First online sale, 2026

Full details on this project are still being added.

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