Warm & appetizing
Photo-forward menus, hours that are easy to find, one-tap directions, and online ordering or reservations if you want them.
Newcastle, Washington
Websites forged for Eastside businesses.
A century ago this town shipped coal down the creek to power Seattle. We ship handcrafted websites that power local businesses — fast, beautiful, and built to convert.
YOUR SITE, LIVE IN WEEKS
What we can build
Restaurants & cafés
Trades & home services
Salons, studios & wellness
Fitness, coaching & outdoors
Pick a style. We'll make it yours.
Bold & trustworthy
Click-to-call front and center, your service area on a map, reviews that build trust, and a quote form that brings in leads.
Elegant & calm
A polished look that matches your space, with services, pricing, and online booking that fills your calendar while you work.
Energetic & direct
High-energy design with class schedules, trial sign-ups, and pages that make people want to show up Monday morning.
These are concept directions from our studio — every site we build starts from scratch around your brand, colors, and goals.
Pricing
One flat price. No surprises.
Complete website
$500flat
Everything you need to get your business online — designed, built, and launched.
- Custom design — built for your business, never a template
- Mobile-friendly and fast on every device
- 2–3 rounds of revisions, free — we work until you love it
- Set up to show in Google searches near you
- Launched on your own domain, ready to share
50% ($250) to start · the rest only when your site goes live
Why so affordable?
Agencies charge $5,000+ for the same work because they have offices, managers, and overhead. We have laptops, skill, and something to prove. You get agency-quality work at a price that makes sense for a small business — and we get to build our reputation one happy client at a time.
Only half up front. If we don't deliver, you never pay the rest.
What we do
Everything a small business needs to look big online.
Design & build
Custom design — never a template — built into a fast, secure site that's easy for you to update yourself.
Local SEO
Show up when neighbors search. Google Business, maps, reviews, and the technical details handled properly.
Care & growth
Hosting, updates, and a monthly report in plain English. When something needs fixing, you text a person — us.
The founders
Two students. One mission.
Coal Creek Studio was started by Maxim Shakhnazarov and Jooan Kong — two 16-year-old high school students from Newcastle who grew up building things on the internet. We noticed local businesses paying agency prices for template websites, or skipping the web entirely, and figured we could do better.
A century ago, this town was built by people who dug value out of Coal Creek. We're carrying that on with keyboards instead of pickaxes. When you work with us, there's no account manager and no runaround — you talk directly to the two people designing and building your site. We answer texts fast, we take feedback well, and we genuinely care whether your business does better after launch, because our reputation in this town is everything we have.
LOCATIONNewcastle, WA 98056
COORDINATES47.5390° N, 122.1560° W
FOUNDERSMaxim Shakhnazarov · Jooan Kong
STATUSHigh school students, dead serious
SERVINGBellevue · Renton · Issaquah · Seattle
RESPONSE TIMEFaster than you'd expect
Start a project
Tell us what you're building.
Free 30-minute consult — no pitch deck, no pressure. We'll look at what you have, tell you honestly what we'd do, and give you a fixed quote within two days.
→ Maxim: (206) 823-8382
→ Jooan: (425) 919-6037