Love Is A Habit
Start a group chat. Add the Love Is A Habit address and whoever the thing is for. Say what you want in normal words. A real web page comes back, with a link you can send to anybody.
No app to download. No account to make. Nothing to install. If you can text, you can do this.
See what you could makeAdd the Love Is A Habit address — it's already in the chat you're reading this from, so you can forward the contact to anyone. Then add the friend whose thing it is. They should be in the room. It's their site.
Plain English. "Mike cuts hair out of his garage, he needs a page with his prices and a way to text him." That's a complete instruction. You don't have to know any words you don't already know.
Open it, look at it together, then keep talking. "Make the photos bigger." "His last name is spelled wrong." "Can the hours go at the top." Same chat, same as any other text. It changes and comes back again.
Every one of these is a real page with its own link. Tap a card to copy the message that would start it — then paste it into a group chat and change the names to your people.
Barber, detailer, landscaper, mechanic, mobile car wash. What he does, what it costs, where he is, a button that opens a text to him. Most people running something small have nothing to send when somebody asks "do you have a website?"
Tattoos, photography, music, art, sneakers, nails, welding. Big pictures, short words, how to reach them. The work should be the loudest thing on the screen.
For a friend job hunting. One clean page, opens on a phone, doesn't need Word, doesn't land in spam. Send it in a text and it just opens.
Somebody's got a business idea. Put up one honest page describing it and a way for people to say they're interested. You learn more in a week than in six months of talking about it.
Schedule, standings, who's playing, who owes money. Basketball, dominoes, fantasy, fishing, whatever you all actually do. Stops the "wait what time" text at 8pm.
One page with the dates, the drive, the cost per person, who's confirmed, what to bring. Beats scrolling back through four hundred messages to find the Airbnb.
Bible study, gym crew, car club, book club, recovery group, study group. When you meet, where, what you're on right now, and how a new person joins without having to ask a stranger.
Cookout, release party, tournament, fundraiser, graduation. Address, time, what to bring, RSVP. A link looks like you meant it. A flyer screenshot does not.
A birthday page friends can add messages to. A tribute for someone you lost. A page for a new baby, a wedding, somebody coming home. These are the ones people keep.
The story, the photos, the goal, where the money goes and why. Point it at whatever you're already collecting through. Honest and specific beats a generic donation form every time.
Split the bill by who drank what. Price a job by square footage. Work out a paycheck after taxes. Small, dumb, exactly right for the thing you keep doing on paper.
Who's bringing what. Who's driving. Who's got Saturday. One page, everybody sees the same list, nobody brings the fourth bag of ice.
For a friend whose stuff is scattered across five apps. One page: music here, shop there, booking here, this is my number. Replaces the link-in-bio thing he's renting.
Comparing three phone plans. Explaining a program to your family. Laying out two options for a decision. Anything you'd normally send as a wall of text — get it as a page people can actually read.
Nothing in that category — try Everything.
"My friend who does nails" tells more than "a business site." Who the person is shapes everything about the page.
Get people to text him. Show the schedule. Collect names. One clear job per page. Two jobs, ask for two pages.
Drop them straight into the chat. Real prices, real hours, real spelling of the name. Anything not sent gets a made-up placeholder, and placeholders are obvious.
"Clean and expensive-looking." "Loud." "Like a corner store, not a hospital." That's useful. You don't need color codes.
The first draft is a starting point, not a delivery. Say what's wrong plainly. Nobody gets offended. That's the whole point of doing it in a chat.
Put your friend in the chat. They'll catch the wrong price and the misspelled last name in four seconds, and they'll like it more because they helped make it.
Most people you know have something they'd be proud to show and no way to show it. The distance between "he does good work" and "here, this is him" used to be money and a guy who knew computers. Now it's a group chat and ten minutes.
You know who those people are better than we do. That's the whole reason it's in your hands. Start with one friend this week — the one you already think about when you read this.
Love Is A Habit is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Nothing here costs you or your friends anything.