Hana Pono Data Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi

Kauaʻi-founded digital product studio

Hana Pono Data

Websites, apps, and durable software systems built around how a business actually works.

Hana Pono Data starts with technical strategy: keep the tools that fit, connect what should stay, and build selected functions that are missing. Useful automation belongs where the task is clear.

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Selected client work

Each example links directly to its public site.

Mokihana Coffee Co. website homepage showing its yellow coffee bus and morning-coffee heading.
Mokihana Coffee Co. website section titled Recent reels from the bus.

Mokihana Coffee Kauaʻi

Mokihana’s public website opens with its yellow coffee bus and includes menu and visit information. A separate section is headed “Recent reels from the bus.”

Open Mokihana Coffee Kauaʻi

One Stop Smoke Shop

On a fresh visit, the public site asks whether the visitor is 21 or older and offers choices for 21+ and under 21.

Open One Stop Smoke Shop
One Stop Smoke Shop age-verification screen asking visitors to confirm they are 21 or older.

Hana Pono Data owned product

Kapaa.APP

Separate from the client work above, Kapaa.APP is Hana Pono Data’s local directory product for finding Kapaʻa businesses, services, and events.

The signed-in directory can be filtered by price, what is open now, business type, and area.

Open Kapaa.APP
Kapaa.APP signed-in business directory with filters for price, open now, business type, and area.

Hana Pono Data owned product

Pacific Storm Watch

Pacific Storm Watch is a live weather desk for Eastern and Central Pacific tropical storms. It shows National Hurricane Center tracks, the official cone, GEFS ensemble paths, and Hawaiʻi rain.

Open Pacific Storm Watch
Storm map with the forecast cone, the official track and the most-likely path for a tropical storm, plus wind, center and ensemble spread in the storm card.
  • Hurricane view with the forecast cone, timed track points and the storm-rainfall layer near the cyclone turned on.
  • Hawaiʻi island rain layer with a tapped town's daily rainfall bars from NWS Honolulu QPF.
  • Alerts settings: turn on alerts and choose which islands and storms to follow.

Start with what needs to work better.

The right build can begin with one customer path, one repeat task, or a whole system that does not exist yet.

Make the business easy to understand.

Distinctive new websites and careful rebuilds can bring services, hours, menus, products, directions, and next steps into one clear place. Content can use more than one language or dialect, with the client reviewing the final wording.

Give customers a clear next step.

Build booking, request, intake, and form paths that ask for the right information and make the next step easy to follow.

Replace the right subscription clutter.

Keep the outside tools that earn their place. Connect what should stay. Build a selected function into the website or app when that is the better fit.

Build software around the work.

When an off-the-shelf product does not fit, customer apps, portals, directories, dashboards, admin tools, and data systems can be shaped around the people, information, and rules involved.

Make repeat work easier to manage.

Organize scattered information, connect repeat steps, and use practical AI for a specific task when a person can check the result.

Plan the launch and what comes after.

Technical strategy, hosting, domain setup, launch support, troubleshooting, updates, and ongoing care are scoped with ownership and support terms made clear in the quote.

A practical way to build.

Start with the part worth fixing, then make the smallest sound decision that moves the work forward.

  1. Understand the real problem.

    Start with the people, information, and repeated steps involved.

  2. Keep what already works.

    Existing tools stay when they fit the job and earn their place.

  3. Connect or build what belongs.

    Useful services are connected, and selected missing functions are built when that is the better fit.

  4. Launch carefully.

    The launch plan states what will be checked, who handles the handoff, and what happens if something fails.

  5. State the terms clearly.

    The quote states ownership, support, and ongoing care.

A clear place to start.

A straightforward website should not be priced like a custom system. A custom system should not be squeezed into a starter plan.

Technical planning

$100 per hour

Use a paid planning session when the problem needs investigation before it can be quoted. The scope and fee are agreed before the session begins.

Simple website and care

May start around $1,000 per year

The quote spells out the website work, what care is included, and how hosting, domain ownership, updates, renewal, transfer, and cancellation work.

Custom apps and systems

Quoted after review

Apps, built-in tools, directories, data systems, dashboards, admin tools, automation, and practical AI support are scoped around the actual job.

These are starting points, not fixed quotes.

  • The First Look includes up to 10 minutes that are not billed.
  • An appointment is confirmed only after a real time is selected and a $25 authorization succeeds on a debit or credit card.
  • The authorization is not a completed payment. A pending debit-card authorization may reduce the funds available in the account.
  • Paid time never starts automatically.
  • A $100 paid hour must be available. It begins only after you explicitly agree and full payment is confirmed.
  • When the invoice is eligible, the authorized $25 is applied exactly once, leaving $75.

First Look

Founder-led in Kapaʻa

Technical judgment stays close to the work.

Hana Pono Data is a founder-led studio based in Kapaʻa. Projects are shaped around the people using them, the information they depend on, and who will own and care for the result.

Alex Therien Founder

Bring one business problem.

Hana Pono Data starts by understanding the work before deciding what should be kept, connected, or built.

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