Indie Site in a Box
A guided, done-with-you service that gets a writer or creator from zero to a fully IndieWeb-compliant personal site in under an hour — domain, hosting, microformats, syndication to Mastodon, and backfeed of replies all configured.
writers, journalists, and creators curious about owning their content but intimidated by the technical setup
- Conversational onboarding that picks a domain, theme, and syndication targets based on a few questions
- Automatic microformats2 markup added to every post so replies and likes work without manual code
- One-click syndication to Mastodon, Bluesky, and LinkedIn with replies backfed to your own site
- Migration assistant that imports existing posts from Substack, Medium, WordPress, or Tumblr
A 2024 Pew study cited in the trending post found 38% of webpages from 2013 were gone a decade later — creators are waking up to platform risk and the IndieWeb movement is gaining mainstream traction.
IndieWeb has an active wiki with Getting Started / Join guides but remains a niche, technically-leaning community; mainstream writer demand is aspirational rather than demonstrated.Getting Started - IndieWeb ↗When Online Content Disappears - Pew Research Center ↗
No dedicated 'done-with-you IndieWeb concierge' shows up in search; closest analogs are Micro.blog (DIY hosted SaaS) and generic static-site hosts, leaving room for a focused setup service.Micro.one pricing ↗IndieWebify.Me ↗
Adjacent Micro.blog subscription runs $5-10/mo for users who self-serve; a one-time setup fee modeled on freelancer web-migration work would likely cap revenue per customer in the low hundreds, and target creators are notoriously price-sensitive.Micro.blog Review (2026) - MakerStack ↗Welcome to Micro.blog - Pricing page intro ↗
Pew 2024 link-rot data (38% of 2013 pages gone) plus durable open standards (microformats, webmentions, ActivityPub) and fediverse growth point to a long-lasting tailwind for owning-your-content services.When Online Content Disappears - Pew Research Center ↗IndieWeb - Wikipedia ↗
All building blocks already exist (domain + Netlify/Cloudflare Pages + Eleventy/Micro.blog + Bridgy for backfeed + ActivityPub), so a templated 'under-an-hour' install is achievable; the bottleneck is human onboarding rather than engineering.GitHub - indieweb/blank-gh-site ↗Joining the IndieWeb guide ↗