The idea
A small business shopping for a website has two bad options: a template thousands of other businesses also picked, or a custom build they cannot see before paying for it. 1 of 1 Sites is the third option. I build the site first, for a kind of business rather than a specific one, list it with its exact price, and sell it to exactly one buyer. When it is claimed it comes off the shelf for good.
The prices are the same as everywhere else I sell: one fixed number between $100 and $600, decided by size and depth. The optional $49 a month plan covers hosting, updates and support, and it never affects who owns the site. That last rule was a deliberate fix. An early version let a maintenance subscription mark a site as sold, which meant one month of the plan could claim a design and cancel. Ownership now comes only from buying the site outright.
What a buyer gets
An owner dashboard where they edit text, photos, hours and contact details, with changes live in seconds. The domain connection, hosting and certificate are handled on the plan, or handed over with the files if they would rather run it themselves. Every listing shows its price up front, so nobody has to ask.
How it is built
Next.js 15 on the App Router with Tailwind 4, Convex as the realtime database and for email and password sign-in, and Stripe Checkout for both the one-time purchase and the subscription, with a signature-verified webhook recording what happened. An admin panel manages listings and inquiries. The design is deliberately unlike my studio site: a dark ground, a serif display face with italic gold accents, hairline rules instead of cards, and no badges or pills anywhere.
What is not done
The first real listings are still being built, which is why the collection shows labelled examples today. When the first one sells, this paragraph gets the real story.