Shan designed and programmed the original sharphue.com website that showcased a project for one of Sharp Hue’s first clients. Today, Sharp Hue has served over 400 clients with needs such as hosting, design, and development.

After working out of a home office and coffee shops for the first few years, it was finally time to get an office where clients could meet to discuss projects.

Sharp Hue’s origins were a web hosting company venture started by Shan in his Georgia Tech dorm room during his senior year. Once Sharp Hue’s client roster was large enough, an investment was made to provide high uptime, private hosting of websites and email for clients.

As more team members were added, in a rough economy, we got creative with our landlord and found additional space within the same building and eventually combined three suites to house the Sharp Hue team.

It took four years before it was possible to hire a full-time employee to help grow the business. Sean Borsodi joined the team as a designer who also had programming knowledge. Since we pronounced our names the same, Sean became known as Sean 2, among clients and friends.

WordPress changed everything for Sharp Hue. Instead of relying on custom made content management systems, we found a budding ecosystem for building and maintaining websites. In 2018, 30% of the web uses WordPress. Wow!

Register Wizard was an opportunity that came to us through our partnership with an event director who heard the pain points of another race director with regards to collecting payments and registration data in a simple, fast, and user-friendly way.

Even as the number of projects completed continues to grow, we find that we spend quality time on each project whether the needs are big or small.

One of the lesser known things about our company is that we don’t have dedicated project managers. Instead of adding middle-people, we spend considerable effort and time training our team members to be great time managers and communicators.

When you first start out, some administrative tasks like registering your trademark is a bottom-of-the-list cost. At around 6 years in business is when we knew we’d be here for the long haul and registered our name, our logo, and the phrase “Beautiful Websites that Work!”

Every new project is met with excitement at Sharp Hue. As natural born problem solvers, we always look forward to hearing from our clients and how we can help them win back time and grow their businesses using technology.

In August of 2015 we reorganized the company so that the role of client services was embedded within our systems and processes. We introduced Sharp Hue Team Support which allowed all team members to collaborate on questions, tasks, and issues from clients. Eventually we implemented Zendesk which does an amazing job of helping us manage a lot of clients with a small team.

After 10 years of being in business and still managing the same private hosting cloud from 2008, it became evident that technology was less expensive than when we started and that partnering with the best hosting companies to manage websites on their infrastructure would win us back time and give us new ways to grow.

Technology enables us to do more and more with less resources. This inverse relationship enables us to spend adequate time on each project so that quality remains a high priority as well as affordability.

The culmination of working relationships with clients, a decade of expertise, streamlined technology, and a desire to offer more support for our clients resulted in the creation of the Technology Partner Program. This retainer-like program offers discounted rates and priority access in the queue for clients who have monthly ongoing needs.

By now, it’s not unusual at all for Sharp Hue to create a product based on patterned demand seen across our clients. The latest product focuses on helping our clients secure their website to help their customers feel safe and also to stay up with changes in search engine ranking factors such as HTTPS.

Our 6th website is a testament to the new processes and technologies we implemented in the previous two years since opening the Atlanta office. The homepage speaks our company vision of helping clients get work done and go home happy. The website now reflects more accurately our capabilities and products.