Web, Shopify, custom software, mobile and brand identity for Houston's energy B2B, Texas Medical Center economy, and operator-led DTC across The Heights and Montrose. Remote-first, on Central Time — we do not staff a Houston office and we will not invent one.
Houston is the most industrially weighted metro we serve in the Central Time zone. The commercial base runs on energy-sector B2B, the vast Texas Medical Center economy, and a diverse consumer DTC scene — food, apparel and beauty brands clustered through The Heights, Montrose, Midtown and Rice Village. A brief from Houston usually carries either a long technical sales cycle, a compliance-heavy data model, or a founder who has built a real retail following before coming online. We scope for that reality rather than treating Houston like a generic e-commerce market.
We are a remote-first agency, founded in 2017, with around 115 people and roughly 2,000 brands shipped across 55-plus countries in nine years. Our two staffed headquarters are New York and Delhi, with smaller satellite teams in London, Sydney and Lucknow. We do not run an office in Houston, EaDo, the Galleria or anywhere else in Texas, and we will not pretend otherwise. What a Houston client gets is a named delivery team, a written scope within 48 hours of the first call, a six-week Discover-Design-Build-Launch-Optimize cadence, and a weekly Friday demo.
Because Houston runs on Central Time, the overlap with our New York team is wide and the Delhi morning catches the back half of your day, so a question raised over breakfast in River Oaks rarely waits a full cycle for an answer.
Upstream, midstream, oilfield services, LNG and the emerging hydrogen and cleantech layer — where the build is usually a distributor portal, gated technical catalog or RFQ system rather than a storefront, sized for a long multi-stakeholder sales cycle.
The Texas Medical Center economy seeds device, wellness, provider and telehealth-adjacent brands that need compliance-aware data flows, credible claim handling and restrained, trustworthy design.
Food, hot sauce, apparel, streetwear and beauty brands out of The Heights, Montrose, Midtown and EaDo — founder-voiced businesses scaling a real local following into a national Shopify presence.
Galleria and River Oaks law firms, brokerages and advisory practices that need fast, search-visible WordPress or custom sites with a confident, polished brand system.
All 39 disciplines we ship, on one six-week cadence — Discover → Design → Build → Launch → Optimize. Every Houston engagement returns a written scope within 48 hours of the first call. Open any service for the full detail.
Full theme + app + API work on Shopify. Headless or Liquid, B2B or DTC, single store or multi-region.
Plus-tier work: Shopify Flow, Launchpad, Scripts, B2B, multi-store, headless — for eight-figure-GMV brands.
Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Salesforce, or custom — with URL parity, redirect maps, and SEO retention through cutover.
Dawn, Sense, Studio, Impulse, or custom. Section-based architecture, JSON templates, app blocks, performance budgets.
Public and private apps with Polaris UI, Admin API, GraphQL, and webhooks — built for the App Store review queue.
Monthly retainer for theme updates, app-conflict resolution, BFCM readiness, and performance-regression watch.
First-time Shopify launch in five business days: theme configured, products imported, payments live, taxes set, basic SEO done.
Wholesale + B2B on Shopify: company accounts, catalog + price-list rules, net terms, and gated buyer experiences.
Checkout UI extensions, Functions, and branding — the post-checkout.liquid path to a compliant, custom checkout.
Hydrogen + Oxygen headless storefronts with the Storefront API — for brands that have outgrown Liquid performance.
Core Web Vitals work: LCP/INP/CLS budgets, lazy media, app-script audits, and theme refactors for real field gains.
Listing, keywords, screenshots, and review strategy to rank and convert inside the Shopify App Store.
Embed senior Shopify engineers and designers into your team — vetted, Premier-Partner-grade talent on demand.
Buy senior Shopify development time in flexible hour blocks — roll-over hours, no long-term lock-in.
Custom marketing sites and product web apps — Next.js, TypeScript, Stripe-deep, Vercel- or Cloudflare-deployed.
Editorial-quality design systems and accessible site builds — a Figma library handed off, not just comps.
Bespoke web platforms — portals, marketplaces, dashboards — with auth, roles, billing, and an admin layer.
Mobile-first responsive builds that hold up from 320px to ultrawide, with real device QA.
High-conversion landing pages for launches and paid campaigns — fast, measured, A/B-ready.
Full redesign with SEO and content preserved through migration — no ranking cliff at relaunch.
Ongoing care: updates, security patches, uptime monitoring, content edits, and performance watch.
Custom themes, blocks, and headless WordPress — clean, fast, and editor-friendly.
WooCommerce stores and migrations — performance-tuned, with the right plugin and payment stack.
Webflow builds and CMS structures that designers can run themselves after handoff.
Adobe Commerce / Magento builds, upgrades, and B2B catalogs — plus clean exits to Shopify when it's time.
Production B2B SaaS: multi-tenant architecture, billing, RBAC, SOC 2-ready logging, and an analytics-native admin.
Validate fast: a focused, real MVP shipped on the six-week cadence — not a throwaway prototype.
Internal tools, integrations, and bespoke systems — APIs, automations, and the glue between your stack.
iOS, Android, and cross-platform — companion and commerce apps with offline, push, and deep-link support.
Native Swift / SwiftUI apps built for App Store review, with StoreKit and Apple-grade polish.
Native Kotlin / Jetpack Compose apps tuned for the Play Store and the Android device matrix.
One React Native codebase shipping to both stores — fast iteration with native modules where needed.
Flutter apps with a single Dart codebase and pixel-consistent UI across iOS and Android.
React engineering for complex front-ends — state, performance, design systems, and component libraries.
Logo, type, color, motion, and voice — a full identity system with a Figma library handed off.
Distinctive, scalable logo systems — primary, secondary, and the full mark set with usage rules.
Product design: research, flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI tied to a real component library.
Lifecycle, retention, CRO, and roadmap — the strategy layer that turns a launch into compounding revenue.
Performance media across Meta, Google, and TikTok — creative, measurement, and a real attribution model.
Few US metros mix heavy industry and consumer commerce the way Houston does. On one side sits the energy corridor — upstream, midstream, oilfield services, the LNG export build-out and a growing cleantech and hydrogen layer — where the web work is rarely a storefront and almost always a B2B system: gated technical catalogs, distributor portals, spec sheets, RFQ flows and long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles. On the other side sits the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, which seeds a steady stream of health-adjacent, device, wellness and provider brands that need compliance-aware data handling and credible, restrained design.
Layered over both is a genuine consumer DTC scene. The kind of operator-led businesses Houston runs on — independent food and hot-sauce makers, apparel and streetwear out of The Heights and EaDo, and Black-owned and Latina-founded beauty brands that have compounded a local following into a national one — are exactly the profile we tend to fit. We reference that scene as market context, not as a client list; the work is honest about what a Houston operator actually needs from a build.
Practically, that means we ship two shapes more often here than almost anywhere else: a B2B or custom-software build for the energy and industrial side, and a Shopify or brand-identity build for the DTC side — frequently for the same kind of founder who started on a market stall or a clinic floor and is now going national.
Houston runs on Central Time, one hour behind our New York HQ, so the overlap with the New York working day is wide — effectively a full Monday-to-Friday collaboration band. Delhi is ten and a half hours ahead, so the Delhi morning picks up the back half of your Houston afternoon and progress carries overnight. We work remotely with Houston brands from our New York and Delhi HQ teams — we do not staff a Houston office and we will not invent one. Coverage spans Downtown, The Heights, Montrose, Midtown, River Oaks, Rice Village, EaDo and Galleria.
No. Digital Heroes is a remote-first agency with two staffed headquarters in New York and Delhi, plus smaller satellite teams in London, Sydney and Lucknow. We work with Houston brands on Central Time, Monday through Friday, with same-business-day response during the overlap. We do not staff a Houston office and we will not invent one.
Houston is one hour behind New York, so the overlap with our New York team covers essentially the whole working day. Delhi is ten and a half hours ahead, which means the Delhi morning catches the back half of your afternoon and work moves forward overnight. You get a weekly Friday demo and a written scope within 48 hours of the first call.
Two broad shapes. On the industrial side, energy, oilfield-services and B2B builds — distributor portals, technical catalogs and custom software sized for long sales cycles. On the consumer side, operator-led DTC across food, apparel and beauty, plus medical-center-adjacent health brands. We reference Houston's brand scene as market context, never as a client roster.
Day-to-day delivery is fully remote on Central Time — we don't keep an office, address or staff anywhere in Houston. Most kickoffs and weekly demos run over video, which is how our New York and Delhi teams collaborate everywhere. If a project genuinely needs an on-site session, occasional client-funded travel can be scoped up front, but it's the exception, not a standing local presence.
Call our New York HQ or book a 30-minute intro call — we scope your Houston build on the call and send a fixed quote within 48 hours.
Served remotely from Digital Heroes' New York + Delhi HQs · USD invoicing · NDA on request