Welcome to
GrovyOS
This website is hand coded with love, HTML, CSS, and the Jquery javascript library. Features of this website include:
- draggable windows
- tabs in the 'About' window
- minimizable/maximizable windows
- a music player
- button along the bottom that corresponds with whether window is active or not
- an instagram widget
- toggle menu
- clock
Hello! Welcome to grovy.space, my little corner of the internet.
I am an illustrator, web developer (hence this website hehe), graphic designer, and photographer (photo of me here is a self portrait). You may also know me as a content creator from @itsgrovy on tiktok for my silly t shirt designs and stationery. Anything creatively-oriented
and digital—I'm there. Being a self-starting multihyphenate, I am always excited to pick up new skills.
This website was coded, designed and illustrated by me. Hope you explore around and enjoy. If you want to reach out for a brand collaboration, website design, branding, or illustration, contact me at hello@grovy.space.
How It All Began
On September 3rd 2021, I'd halfheartedly posted this tweet (as one does with Twitter) about a logo design that was rejected.
(Fun fact: back in March, in a now deleted tweet, I posted the same fish but with the caption: "gay little fish")my rejected logo idea for my friends boba shop pic.twitter.com/TWClN10WAY
— Grovy🥠(@grovymango) September 3, 2021
The tweet went viral and 5 people asked for t shirts of the design. I was so excited and setup grovy.space 4 days later, filled with giddy and adrenaline as seen here:
GUYS HOLY SHIT I BUILT AND DESIGNED MY WEBSITE !!!! GO CHECK IT OUT AT https://t.co/6iEhbRRNSE !! all the boba koi stuff are $15-25!! pic.twitter.com/SA3nalBUJL
— Grovy🥠(@grovymango) September 8, 2021
One person got the koi design tattooed and it made me realize I could make whimsical silly designs that can be enjoyed and loved by many.
SOMEONE GOT THIS TATTOOED AHHH IM SCREAMING https://t.co/LH0CgdUMyk pic.twitter.com/oAKA8cJUbd
— Grovy🥠(@grovymango) September 5, 2021
I got so excited I made a tiktok about it, and it exploded from there. I then reposted the tiktok to my instagram and it also drew a large audience. Since then, my love for illustration was renewed and I continued to create more designs that are well loved by my audience. I am forever grateful for the chance to make silly art and have a little community that celebrates that.
@itsgrovy
You can call me Grovy. Or Grovy Mango. I like being semi anonymous.
Q:Why Grovy? What does it stand for?
A: A conjunction of the words groovy and grove. I love music, especially funk-jazz fusion, hence the word groovy, and I love nature. The word grove makes such a soothing warm sound, it feels like a balm for the soul. Idk.
Q:How are your prices low?
A: I'm lucky to be able to protect my margins with my experience in coding! I'm able to independently set up and code a website, find hosting without a middleman service. If I sold my items with the same prices on Redbubble, Society6, teespring, Shopify, Squarespace, Etsy, Big Cartel, I'd make a lot less. It's kind of like, renting vs. owning. That, and because of my internet following that helps drive sales volume which leads to smaller unit prices for the items in my shop.
Q:Why are your prices low?
A: I do it for my audience of single mothers, broke college students and silly people. And besides, my clothing items are Gildan. I've already put in the work (web dev + marketing) to be able to have low prices but also a decent profit margin :-)
Q: Where did you learn how to code?
A: Freecodecamp.com is my bestie. Self taught. But before freecodecamp.com, in middle school, I took blogspot.com too seriously.
I'm a Wish creator partner and often buy cute building block structures there. My code for $5 off is grovy.inc5