Garage Bae
Wash Near Me
We build websites and software. An independent creative technology company.
Website design, SEO, and custom software for working businesses. Garage Bae and Wash Near Me are ours, and we answer their support email.
What we make: sites, apps, dashboards, logos, campaigns, automations, portals, booking, integrations, storefronts, internal tools, reports, print, hosting, and signage.
Our products
Two products we built ourselves.
Garage Bae runs every day in a working shop. Wash Near Me helps drivers find a car wash or detailer.
Garage Bae: Shop software for builds that take weeks.
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Built for builds that take weeks
Each build carries its stage, parts, photos, and balance until it rolls out.
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The quote is the invoice
The approved quote becomes the work order, then the invoice. Nothing is typed twice.
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Every part, checked to fit
150,000+ parts from the makers’ own stores, with fitment checked before anyone orders.
Wash Near Me: Find a wash you can trust, then ask for a price.
For drivers
Find a wash or detailer nearby, see who is real, and ask for a price without an account.
For owners
A page drivers can trust, every request in one inbox, and a reply drafted for you to send.
THICKRIM Supply · Cameras and remote start for working vehicles.
See SupplyWhat we do
Design, software, and the systems that connect them.
We design websites, build software, and help businesses get more out of the tools they already pay for.
- WebsitesShop sites, online stores, and landing pages.
- BrandLogos, signs, truck wraps, and print.
- SoftwareCustom software, apps, and customer portals.
- MarketingLocal SEO, your Google listing, reviews, and ads.
- AutomationCRM, lead follow-up, and connecting your tools.
- HostingUpdates, backups, monitoring, and support.
Who we are
THICKRIM is a technology and creative company from Chicagoland.
We build websites and software, and we spend as long working out which of them a business needs as we do building it.
Often that is untangling a stack nobody chose on purpose, or showing an owner that one afternoon of automation gives back a few hours every week.
What we believe
- Not every problem needs software.
- Not every workflow needs AI.
- People should understand what they are paying for.
Our work
Selected client work.
Custom automotive shops, performance brands, towing, and detailing, and local service businesses.
- Ernie’s Custom ShopAftermarket · Website · Hosting
- ROK IndustryAftermarket · Online store
- Prominent DetailingDetailing · Website
- Ernie’s Towing & RecoveryTowing · Website · Hosting
- North Shore Physical MedicineHealthcare · Website
- Dream Art LLCPrint and graphics · Website
The right fit
Who we work best with.
Businesses that already have customers and a way of working, and need the digital side to catch up.
- Automotive companies
- Custom builders, a parts brand, towing, and detailing. Most of our named work is here.
- Established local businesses
- Steady customers and a shop that runs, on a website and tools nobody has touched in years.
- Growing teams
- The website, the workflow, and the stack were all sized for a smaller company.
- Operators
- You will judge this on whether the phone rings, not on how it looks in a portfolio.
- Founders
- You have an idea and need someone who can build the first working version.
Platforms
We pick platforms you could hand to someone else.
Sometimes that means building on a tool you already depend on. Sometimes it means connecting the ones you have so nobody types the same thing twice.
- WordPress
- Shopify
- WooCommerce
- Stripe
- Square
- HubSpot
- Meta
- Mailchimp
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
- Supabase
- GitHub
- Figma