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After-Hours Ad Kit
An animated ad template for home-service contractors who lose jobs to missed calls. Drop in your logo, business name, phone number, and brand colors — every element is named, every line of copy is editable text — and you have a 9-second vertical ad ready to run. Built for plumbers, HVAC, electricians, and any shop where the phone rings after hours.
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About the Brand
Afterhours is a fictional café designed for students and professionals seeking a comfortable, quiet space to work, study, or take a well-deserved break. With good coffee and a calm, work-friendly environment at its core, the brand brings together productivity and relaxation. It also appeals to café explorers looking to discover unique places and experiences.
The Problem
The challenge was to communicate Afterhours' core purpose and brand personality through Instagram Stories in a way that was clear, engaging, and easy to understand. The designs needed to establish Afterhours as more than just another café: a space where people could focus, recharge, and enjoy good coffee without compromising on comfort.
Solution
I explored a clean, editorial design approach using bold typography, warm neutral tones, and minimal compositions to communicate professionalism while keeping the brand approachable. Through concise copy and coffee-centric visuals, the Instagram Stories connect coffee with productivity, focus, and taking a break. The aim was to build a distinctive brand presence that feels calm, contemporary, and relatable to its audience.
It started with a night out. Then another. Then several questionable decisions across three countries.
They said the clean girl era was over and the party girl was back. Lovely. Nobody mentioned the party girl would also need to be a travel agent, logistics coordinator and unpaid crisis manager.
I spent September and October in Manila, Bangkok and Bali on what I’d confidently declared my year of side quests. My agenda? Good music, good company, and maybe kissing someone new in every country. I’m a startup founder on holiday, not a nun on pilgrimage.
Instead, Bangkok handed me administrative DLC. I wanted Ke$ha and Icona Pop. I got techno in a club with six people and a dream. I wanted to meet men. I got a tuk-tuk Splenda daddy. Not even a sugar daddy. SPLENDA.
And somehow between cover charges, figuring out where the actual party was and getting everyone home, I’d become the operations manager of a multinational drinking expedition.
Which is offensive. I’m supposed to be making questionable decisions, not coordinating them in a spreadsheet.
Then I thought: hang on. I have Base44. I could literally BUILD my night out!
So I built AfterHours: a mobile-first nightlife concierge to find the right venues, book tables, organise the group, coordinate hosts and rides, and help everyone get home safely.
Because bad decisions should be recreational, not infrastructural.
Looking great Megan!!
