Ledger / Entry 01

LOBO//MANTIS

Live insects, sold online, shipped alive — one person doing the breeding, photography, code, and fulfillment.

LIVE lobomantis.com ↗ Las Vegas, NV Site · eBay · MorphMarket
6
species bred in-house
48
states shipped — alive
100
lighthouse — all four categories

Most portfolio projects are demos. This one breathes.

Live animals · real payments · real weather · ships the lower 48 Judge the storefront live ↗
01 — The headline system

The checkout knows the weather at the buyer's door — before they do.

A shipping webhook geocodes every ZIP and pulls the three-day forecast before a single rate renders. Too hot or too cold, and doorstep delivery swaps to hold-at-location.

>90°F / <40°F → hold at carrier · auto heat packs · 35-mile LV geofence · live FedEx rates + flat fallback
Product-page promise panel: overnight shipping, live arrival guarantee, weather hold below 40 or above 90 degrees
Surfaced at checkout — thresholds disclosed before purchase

Six more systems

02 — Each one exists because the business hit the problem
01

Pickup & delivery scheduling

Post-purchase booking on tokenized private URLs — date and slot picker, owner confirm flow, calendar downloads.

UUID per order · 2-hr buffer · .ics · fail-closed 404
02

Email automation

Every confirmation, tracking update, care drip, and review ask sends itself.

Resend · SPF / DKIM / DMARC · verified-buyer gating
03

Admin back-office

One single-page app runs the whole operation: orders, packing slips, customers, loyalty, bookings, labels.

Status-driven emails · 4-up specimen label printing
04

Reviews + SEO

Verified-buyer reviews feed rich results; 23 guides and posts do the organic acquisition.

Product & FAQ JSON-LD · 49-page sitemap
05

Operating database

An 11-table edge schema driven by a signature-validated webhook — duplicates guarded, waitlists auto-cleared on purchase.

Cloudflare D1 · SQLite at the edge
06

Edge API + security

Thirteen serverless endpoints with expiring token auth and rate-limited public forms.

HMAC tokens · Turnstile + honeypot · strict CSP
lobomantis.com homepage on a 412-pixel mobile viewport Orchid Mantis product page on a 412-pixel mobile viewport
Same system at 412px — no separate build
admin back-office — private, capture pending
Admin back-office

03 — Specs

11
table schema
13
api endpoints
49
page sitemap
Astro (hybrid SSR)Cloudflare WorkersD1 (SQLite at the edge)SnipcartStripeResendTypeScriptTailwindUmamiFedEx Rates APIOpen-Meteo
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