Solo Site
A desktop publishing app for writers and independent creators who want a personal blog on $0.01/day static hosting, with AI handling the HTML, RSS feed, and archive generation.
Independent writers and creators who want a personal site without platform lock-in
- Plain-text editor with live HTML preview that auto-generates landing page, archive, and RSS feed
- One-click publish to nearlyfreespeech.net-style static hosts with SFTP upload
- 'Take Everything' export that downloads your full site as a portable HTML folder
- Optional AI writing helper that drafts new posts in your existing style
Platform fatigue from Substack policy shifts and Twitter turmoil is driving writers back to owned sites; the HN post's 51 points and 41 comments show active community appetite, and the $0.01/day hosting math makes full ownership finally cheaper than most SaaS subscriptions.
Multiple 2025 first-person accounts of writers quitting Substack (Kadlec, Delong) plus blogherald coverage of Substack→Ghost migration and explicit calls for writers to own their domain — HN post at 51/41 confirms active appetite.after seven years, i'm leaving substack ↗Why I'm Quitting Substack - read.markdelong.me ↗
Static site generator space is saturated (Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Metalsmith + Slant's list of 38 SSGs, Product Hunt category), but the specific wedge — a desktop app aimed at non-technical writers with AI-built HTML/RSS pushing to cheap static hosts — is largely unfilled.38 Best static site generators as of 2026 - Slant ↗Awesome Static Web Site Generators - GitHub ↗
Audience is explicitly price-sensitive — the $0.01/day pitch is built on Substack/Ghost-substitute economics; free SSGs (Hugo, Jekyll) and cheap Markdown editors set a near-zero willingness-to-pay ceiling, making paid desktop publishing a hard sell.Publishers are leaving Substack for Ghost — and the reasons reveal ... ↗web hosting - IndieWeb ↗
IndieWeb community and 'own your content' ethos have been continuously active for ~10+ years across cycles of platform fatigue; static HTML and RSS are among the most durable web primitives, and AI HTML/RSS generation is a stable capability.Getting Started - IndieWeb ↗Building the IndieWeb: A Technical Guide for Developers ↗
NearlyFreeSpeech at $0.01/day is documented and real; LLMs can reliably produce HTML+RSS from Markdown; a desktop wrapper around that pipeline is straightforward, with the main effort being the non-technical publish/sync UX.Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day ↗