Jimbo Wash

A cinematic site that turns visitors into WhatsApp leads

A premium German landing page for a car detailing center, engineered to convert without a single line of backend code.

The challenge

Jimbo Autopflegecenter is a hand car wash and detailing center in Aalen-Unterkochen, offering everything from hand washing and paint reconditioning to ceramic sealing and headlight restoration. They needed a site that matched the craftsmanship of their work: glossy, fast, and confidence-inspiring. Just as importantly, every visitor needed a frictionless path to booking, without the studio running an email server or backend they would have to maintain.

Our approach

We built a single long-scroll landing page in Next.js 16, designed around a glossy-dark visual identity: a deep navy base with a vivid automotive-red accent, themed around freshly-detailed paint. Lead generation drives the architecture. Instead of a backend, the contact form and a site-wide floating button deep-link directly into WhatsApp, with a service picker that prefills the message. All German copy, pricing, and FAQ content live in one content file and all photography in another, so the owner can edit the entire site from two files without touching a single component.

What we delivered

Cinematic full-screen hero with an auto-advancing six-slide image carousel, masked line-by-line headline reveal, slide dots, and an index counter

Branded preloader with a 0-to-100 progress counter tied to the real page load, holding at 99 until the site is genuinely ready

Services section with six detailing pillars plus a signature LAVA foam wash highlight

Interactive draggable before/after slider showing dull-vs-glossy paint, fully keyboard and pointer accessible

Transparent pricing with four wash programs and three detailing packages, including surcharge and interior add-on notes

Four-step process section from booking through final inspection and handover

Photo gallery, an about section with three brand values, and six real Google reviews linking to the listing

WhatsApp-powered contact form with a service picker, clickable address and hours cards, and an embedded Google Map

Site-wide floating WhatsApp button with a ping ring for instant contact

Custom animated cursor with labelled action rings, smooth Lenis scrolling, and a scroll-progress indicator

Tech highlights

Next.js 16 App Router with React 19 and TypeScript in strict modeTailwind CSS v4 with OKLCH color tokens and no config fileContent fully decoupled from presentation in two editable filesNo backend lead generation via WhatsApp deep-linking, keeping the site fully staticLocalBusiness JSON-LD, OpenGraph cards, sitemap and robots fed from the same content sourceAccessibility-conscious motion guarded by reduced-motion and pointer-fine checksDocker standalone behind Traefik with Let's Encrypt TLS and security headersGitHub Actions CI/CD with an automated post-deploy health check

We wanted the site to feel like the paint after a full detail: deep, glossy, and flawless. So we leaned into a cinematic hero, an honest preloader, and a before/after slider that is genuinely keyboard-operable rather than just a mouse toy. The smartest decision was skipping the backend entirely. Every inquiry deep-links straight into WhatsApp, so the site stays fully static and the owner edits all copy, pricing, and photos from just two files.

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