Early on, the gap between you and a company ten times your size is mostly presentation. A real domain, email that is not a free address, a site that looks like somebody built it on purpose, and somebody answering when a prospect asks a question. That is most of what credibility is made of at the start.
The trap is spending founder time assembling it, or spending money on a full marketing program before you know what you are selling.
The usual startup shortcut is a platform that gets you live in an afternoon and owns everything you make on it. It works right up until you need to move, at which point your content, your addresses and your search history are on somebody else’s terms.
We put you on infrastructure that is yours from the first day Yours From Day One Your domain and DNS are registered in your name. The website is open source software you own. Your email accounts are on your account. If you later take it in house, all of it comes with you. Learn more → , and keep the monthly cost at the bottom of the ladder until there is a reason to move it.
A clean single page, managed hosting, a real mailbox at your own domain and an assistant answering on the page. That is often all an early company needs, and paying for more is money not spent on the actual product.
On the smallest tier, probably yes, because a real domain and working email pay for themselves the first time a serious prospect looks you up. On anything larger, probably not yet, and we will tell you that rather than take the order.
You can, and some founders should. The question is whether your time is better spent on the product. If you would rather own the infrastructure and hand off the operating of it, that is exactly what this is.
The ladder exists for that. The work is scoped with you and reviewed as the business changes, so the plan tracks the business instead of trailing it.
Then you take everything with you. Your domain, your site, your content, your accounts. We would rather be the reason it was easy than the reason it was painful.
No. Straight monthly terms, scoped by agreement. It keeps the relationship simple and it keeps us honest about whether you actually need the next tier up.
Tell us what stage you are actually at. We will point you at the smallest thing that does the job, and say so when that is all you need.