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Case Study · Website & Branding

Good Kicks

Foot Bag Brand · Direct-to-Consumer

View live site Next.js 15E-CommerceStripeDTC BrandSEO

Client

Good Kicks

Location

Direct-to-Consumer

Services

Brand & Web Design, E-Commerce Development, SEO, Copywriting

Stack

Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Stripe, Supabase, Vercel

6

Colorways Live

State-themed designs, each with its own product page

Stripe

Checkout

Full direct-to-consumer e-commerce

8–10%

Ambassador Program

Built-in commissions and discount codes for campus accounts

The Problem

A premium product in a market full of $4 junk.

Good Kicks set out to sell genuinely premium foot bags — 32-panel, properly weighted, made by a crew with 30+ years behind them — to the campus circles and friend-group crews who actually keep the scene going. But a great product needs somewhere to sell it. They were launching into a category dominated by $4 Amazon junk and discount-brand listings, with no storefront, no brand presence, and no way to reach the high school and college sack accounts that drive the culture. They needed an e-commerce home that matched the quality of the product.

Good Kicks — mobile view

Our Approach

The build had to do two jobs at once: act as a premium e-commerce storefront and a sales engine for campus ambassadors. The storefront leads with the brand story and the product lineup, each colorway gets its own product page for SEO and shareability, and the Stripe-powered checkout feels like a major DTC brand from day one. The ambassador program lives as a first-class feature, not a buried referral page — campus accounts get custom discount codes, transparent commission math, and an application flow that takes minutes. Together, those make Good Kicks scalable from the start.

What We Built

  • Full custom Next.js e-commerce storefront built from scratch
  • Product catalog with individual pages for all six state colorways
  • Stripe-powered cart and checkout with flat-rate and free-shipping logic
  • Ambassador program — application flow, custom discount codes, and a commission structure for campus accounts
  • "The Stitch" content blog for SEO and footbag culture
  • Newsletter capture for drops and discount codes
  • Instagram feed integration showcasing the community in the circle
  • Mobile-first design carrying the brand's signature lowercase, campus-culture voice

Tech Stack

Next.js 15React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSSStripeSupabaseVercel

Services

Brand & Web DesignE-Commerce DevelopmentSEOCopywriting

The Result

A storefront that looks like the brand was always here.

Good Kicks launched with a real e-commerce storefront — the full state-themed lineup live with dedicated product pages, a Stripe-powered checkout, and "The Stitch" content blog seeded with footbag culture for organic search. The ambassador program turns high school and college accounts into a distributed sales engine: custom discount codes for their followers, recurring commissions paid out monthly, and a free starter sack on approval. Instead of competing as another discount listing on Amazon, Good Kicks shows up as the premium brand it actually is — a real home base, a real story, and a clear path from "saw it on Instagram" to "ordered."

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