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u/Objective_Might593
14 hours ago
I built a site builder for authors that will never make money, and I love it anyway
This sub is full of MRR screenshots, so here’s the opposite.
A few months ago I built Zenpage (zenpage.io), a website builder for authors. It’s free. No paid tier, no trial, no upsell waiting behind a button. It will probably never make a cent, and that’s fine.
Why build it? I wanted to give something back to the author community. Most writers I know either have no website or a sad one they paid way too much for. A clean author page shouldn’t require a web designer or a monthly subscription.
Here’s a demo site so you can see what it looks like: https://wrenhalloway.zenpage.io/
Out of the box you get book pages with buy links, series reading order, a blog, events, a newsletter signup with a lead magnet, and all your socials in one place.
The plan is to keep building until it’s the most complete platform an author could need. No revenue goal, no exit plan. Just a thing I enjoy working on that seems to help people. Every time an author tells me they finally have a site they’re proud of, it feels better than any Stripe notification would.
Anyone else here running a project purely because they like it? How do you justify the hours to yourself?