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Two Obsessions, One Company

COFFEE SHOP SEARCH EXPERTS

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How This Started

FOUND FROM COAST TO COAST

Hillcane started in the Southeast, where we noticed something odd: some of the best specialty coffee shops around were nearly invisible in Google search and Maps. Most owners had built what they could in a drag-and-drop website builder while running a café, a roastery, and everything else — understandable, but it meant search couldn't tell they were a coffee shop at all, let alone a specialty one. We found the same gap nationwide.

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Our Mission

REAL VISIBILITY

Hillcane was founded by Jacob Mishalanie and Thomas Garner — one lives coffee culture, the other lives modern search and Google. Most cafés get found through best-of lists, tourism boards, and word of mouth. Those are real and valuable, but a café doesn't control them. A properly built website and Google Business Profile are the one channel that's actually yours.

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