Lockabea — A Custom Next.js Storefront, Built in 10 Days

Lockabea is a Canadian founder brand behind a personal-security smartwatch — a device with a physical lock-and-key clasp, GPS, and emergency alerting, designed to keep children and families safe and connected without needing a phone.

With a launch window approaching fast, the founder needed a storefront that could handle pre-orders and full e-commerce — quickly. Off-the-shelf options did not fit: WordPress carried real security and speed concerns, and a hosted platform like Shopify made the level of technical SEO and control they wanted difficult.

Rather than force the brand onto a template platform, we recommended a tailored build.

Using Next.js, we created a fast, secure, fully custom storefront with all the commerce functionality of a hosted platform — product presentation, pre-orders, checkout, and payments — but with complete control over performance and SEO. We ran it as a tight, focused sprint to hit the launch window.

Lockabea got a launch-ready, high-performance storefront in ten days — one that sidesteps the security and speed pitfalls of WordPress and the SEO limits of a hosted platform, while keeping full ownership of its codebase and roadmap.