About TattooNOW
Technology for tattooers & studios since 1998 — websites, kiosks, marketing, and the tools that grow a tattoo business.
Our Story
TattooNOW began as a partnership. In 1998, Gabe Ripley & Sean O’Hara were building technology for tattooers and studios — the first client websites and hand-built touchscreen kiosks — back when most shops didn’t have an email address. Our earliest client site, darksidetattoo.com, was registered in 1998 — the record is still public.
In 2000 we brought that work together under TattooNOW.com — a directory for collectors trying to find tattoo artists in the early days of the web. Today we’re a working network of 984+ verified tattoo studios and 1050+ artists, plus the websites, booking tools, marketing, and consulting that keep them running.
Every site in the network is a real working business. Every artist is verified. Every photo is a real piece by a real artist who is taking new clients now.
By the Numbers
We’re tattoo people who learned the web — not a web agency that discovered tattooing.
Our mission: help tattooing leave the longest-lasting positive impact it can on humanity.
Tattooing turns meaning into something you carry for life. We make the web see it — your work, found and understood.
The craft never stops moving, and neither does the web. We've re-platformed artists across every era since 2000 — and we'll carry you across the next one.
A tattoo is forever. So is the foundation under your name online — we keep it running for decades, not quarters.
What We Do
Websites
Custom and template-based portfolio sites with built-in SEO, galleries, and booking. Starting at $49/mo.
Business tools
Booking, CRM, marketing automation, financial pipelines, and AI-powered consulting via our knowledge base.
Events & community
Conventions, retreats, and seminars. Paradise Artist Retreat and Icons & Prodigies are our flagship productions.
Talk to TattooNOW
Studio onboarding, partnership inquiries, press, support — reach the team directly.