SwansonX
My business

1 of 1 Sites

Most website marketplaces sell the same template to everyone. This one sells each design once, retires it, and hands the buyer the keys.

The 1 of 1 Sites homepage: a dark page with a large serif headline reading Own a website no one else can have, above three example listings in browser frames

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 named one, list it with its exact price, and sell it to one buyer. Once it is claimed it comes off the shelf for good.

Each design carries one fixed number, set by its size and depth. The optional $49 a month plan covers hosting, updates and support, and it never changes who owns the site.

That last rule was a deliberate fix. An early version let a maintenance plan mark a site as sold, which meant one month of the plan could claim a design and then 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, 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 live database and for email and password sign-in. Stripe Checkout for both the one-time purchase and the plan, with a signed webhook recording what happened. An admin panel handles listings and enquiries.

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 labeled examples today. When the first one sells, this paragraph gets the real story.

Tell me what you're paying for

Send me your monthly software list and I'll tell you honestly what's worth replacing. I reply within 24 hours whether or not you hire me.

Tell me the problemCall