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10/20/2026

POV: The edit is bad but the stay is beautiful and the empanadas are the best in town.

stayed at .beach.houseboats and found out Nito's will bring fresh dozens right to the dock. Staying there?

Preorder at nitos.shortlistpass.com, powered by .

10/16/2026

Your food isn't the problem. "I didn't know you were here" is.

trucks.shortlistpass.com is live.

It's not another food truck finder that goes stale. Every truck and every park gets its own app, and they're all connected. Send Shorty your menu, a flyer, or your calendar, and he gets you live.

People follow your truck or your park, see who's out, check the menu before they leave the house, and order right there. The money goes straight to your bank. We don't take a cut.

Claim your truck or park free at trucks.shortlistpass.com. The more of us on it, the more people find all of us.

Tag a truck owner who needs this.

10/14/2026

A food truck finder site never sold a taco.

The Shortlist isn't a food truck finder. Shorty's a coworker.

He does the outreach. He posts to social. He takes the orders. He handles the bookings. He answers your customers at 2am while you're asleep.

Let those sites collect digital dust. Shorty works front of house, 24 hours a day.

Claim your free Shorty. shortlistpass.com/foodtrucks — link in bio

10/12/2026

Food truck park owners: we built you your own app. It's free.

Your visitors want three things: instant answers 24/7, who's there and what's on the menu, and the ability to order before they even show up. This gives them all three.

And it brings people back. Shorty sends your weekly email, text, push and social posts, so your park stays on their mind.

It connects to your vendors' trucks too. Every truck gets its own page, also free, with paid upgrades if they want more. They take preorders with zero platform fees, so they sell food before the gates open. Even on a rainy day.

Bonus: people now ask AI agents where to eat, not Google. Shortlist built official pipes into ChatGPT, Claude and more, so your park gets discovered right where they're asking. The difference is convenience. Other parks get read: hours and an address. Yours lets people take action, like ordering, right there.

Your website just sits there. This gets people moving.

Want one free? DM us.

10/05/2026

Introducing Shortlist Community Events: free tools that help neighborhoods run their own events, starting with a Halloween decorating contest for your neighborhood. Currently live on our website!

Anyone can start one. Pick your city, name your neighborhood, and you get a link to share with your neighbors. You don't have to be on the HOA board, and nobody has to approve it.

How the haunting works:
- Show off the scary stuff. Neighbors enter their house with photos and the story behind it: the fog machine, the 12-foot skeleton, the cobwebs that took all weekend.
- Drive-by voting. Only people inside your neighborhood can see the addresses, so everyone can cruise the street after dark and vote for their favorite.
- Take it citywide. Want to take on every other haunted house in town? Flip on "make my home discoverable across the city." Your photos and your story show up in the citywide contest. Your address stays hidden.

Already on Shortlist? If your HOA uses Shortlist, it's listed on the city page automatically. Find your neighborhood, tap Join, and you're in. Nothing to set up.

Why we're doing it: we're a local company, from here, and we build for the people who live here. When's the last time you stood on your street and knew everybody's name? We want to get neighbors outside, talking, and slowing down to look at each other's work.

It's free. We're doing it because we live here too.

09/30/2026

Your website still gets read. Your Instagram still gets seen. But as of this week, that's all they do. They're billboards now.

Meta's Muse and ChatGPT's Dots landed this week, and if you haven't watched someone use one yet, find a video. It's incredible. A person says one sentence and things happen.

"Order me dinner from the best spot nearby, ready at 7."

"Find a landscaper who does weekly cuts and get me a quote for Saturday."

"Does my dentist take Delta? If not, find one nearby who does and book me a cleaning next week."

"Get the truck with the good empanadas to my kid's party on the 18th."

That's it. No tabs. No forms. No hold music. The agent finds, compares, books and pays.

Here's the part most business owners don't know yet.

The agent will find your site. It'll read your menu if it's there in text. It'll read your hours, your services, your prices. Then it goes to do the actual thing, place the order, book the slot, check the insurance, and there is no language your business speaks back to it. Nothing for it to transact with. So it stops, turns to the customer, and says: "You'll need to call them."

They won't.

Not because they don't like you. Because skipping that step was the whole point. Chasing your link and dialing your number is the exact chore the agent was hired to remove. So it moves on to the landscaper, the dentist, the restaurant that could answer.

Some folks will fight this. They like doing it the old way, and some customers do too. Then they notice they got 45 minutes back. Enough to throw a ball around with their kids, or finally get that time to get back into the gym to improve their health. That argument ends fast.

This is where we come in.

The Shortlist makes your business speak the agents' language. Your menu, your hours, your bookings, your orders, your payments, live and readable by every agent, so when a customer says "book it," it books. When they say "order it," it's ordered. You don't build anything. You show up and do what you do.

And behind it is Shorty, your own business agent. He handles the day to day, from sales to bookings to marketing, like a coworker who never clocks out and never asks for a raise.

This isn't a five-years-from-now thing. It started this week. The businesses that can be transacted with are the ones the agents will bring customers to. The rest get read and passed over.

Be on the right side of this one.

Sounds too good to be true? DM us and find out.

07/15/2026

New episode of We Don't Call Ahead is up.

This week we stopped by The Clever Cleaver parked in Conway to hang with Chef Tommy. If you've been to Sunday Funday downtown, you already know his truck — he's one of the people who helped make that whole thing happen. Food trucks, live entertainment, and a menu with something for everyone.

We showed up unannounced, ate way too much, and got the story behind it all.

Full episode:

Welcome to We Don't Call Ahead — the show where we pull up unannoun...

07/07/2026

Fifty-two pages. That is the length of the rulebook a volunteer somewhere is typing into a system tonight, one line at a time, on a Tuesday, for zero dollars. Then the pool rules. Then the ARC guidelines. Then the pet policy and the trash schedule. This same person is also expected to email 600 neighbors about bingo. Nobody signed up for this. Everybody is doing it anyway. And here is the part that stings: the emails don't work. You know the ones — ALL-CAPS subject line, PDF attachment, sent from a no-reply address. The open rate is under ten percent. The board writes a second email hoping to break through where the first didn't. It doesn't.

So we stopped trying to make the board better at communicating and built the app to do the communicating itself. Upload the 50-page PDF; the assistant reads it, sorts it, and answers residents at 11pm about fence heights on its own. It targets a message at one street, or one interest group, or one specific door. Every Monday it emails the full week of events to subscribers automatically — no laptop, no three-board-member approval chain. 665 events have run across the network so far. None of them happened because someone sent a better PDF.

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The board is a bunch of unpaid volunteers hand-typing parking rules into a system nobody reads. Three new builds fix that — and the board does nothing.

07/07/2026

The oven at Ferrucci Brick Oven Pizza weighs more than the man who built it, and it is bolted to a trailer. He fires it up in driveways, office parking lots, and HOA lawns — wherever the truck fits, he backs it in. Before this, he was a firefighter for twenty years. The Italian food his immigrant parents carried over and put on the table never left him; eventually it pulled hard enough that he followed it out of one profession and into another. The menu is short and specific. Twelve-inch personal pies: cheese $14, specialty pies — Buffalo Chicken, Meat Lovers, Veggie Delight — $18. A cannoli is $5. There is Italian ice for the weather that calls for it. On Shortlist, the most-searched item on his page, by a wide margin, is the plain 12-inch cheese. People keep asking about it, which is usually what happens right before the word gets out.

This weekend he has three stops. One of them is Clear Pond, Friday at 5. Clear Pond runs on Shortlist, which means ordering just got absurdly easy: residents tap the event card on their home feed and preorder from the truck before they leave the house. You show up, it's ready. The kitchen table his parents built never went anywhere. He just put it on wheels.

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Twenty years of running into fires — and every off-shift meal was practice for this.

07/06/2026

We built a golf game. It's bad. That's the point. ⛳

9 ridiculous holes. A gator that chases your ball. A shark. Seagulls that steal your shot. And a leaderboard where your neighborhood battles every other neighborhood in Myrtle Beach.

Bad golf. Good times. Beat your neighbors 👉 app.shortlistpass.com/games/golf