For writers
Your writing deserves its own address
Describe what you write about and Spanli builds the home for it — front page, full archive, topic tags, an about page that sounds like you. Writing a post is filling in a form. Drafts stay yours until you say otherwise.
You type “A newsletter and archive about food, farming and the people in between” — and Spanli assembles the site in front of you: opening, latest pieces, from the field, say hello. The changes receipt reads: Added: 4 sections — opening, latest pieces, from the field, say hello.
Sound familiar?
Everything you've written lives on someone else's page, under their logo, beside their invitation to subscribe to somebody else.
The archive is theirs. An algorithm decides who sees the piece that took you a week. You want an address that is simply your name — and you want it without spending a fortnight becoming a person who thinks about websites, because you have a draft due.
How it works
What Spanli does about it
In the demo beside each claim: the notes from a wet harvest line being corrected — you click it, type “publish the harvest piece”, and Draft becomes Published; then new enquiry arriving in the Spanli inbox; then the site Spanli built.
Publishing is a form, not an event
Title, the piece, a tag, publish. The article page, the archive and the topic tags all exist from the first day — you never assemble them.
Drafts are actually drafts
Work on something for a month with nobody watching. It goes live when you publish it, not before.
The site writes its own first draft
Describe what you cover and who reads you; Spanli writes the front page, the about page and the framing. You rewrite any line by pointing at it — which is easier than facing an empty page about yourself.
Everything on it
What your site includes
Your name, your address
Search for the domain and buy it inside Spanli — no registrar, no settings to paste anywhere. It's yours, not a page on a platform that may reorganise itself next year.
It stays fast and stays up
What's published is static pages served worldwide, checked at phone size before they're called done — where most reading happens.
All switched on by default
Take out what you don't need.
- A front page with the pieces you want read first
- Every article in one archive
- Topic tags that sort themselves
- An about page: who you are and what you're doing here
- Links to wherever else you publish
- A contact form for readers, editors and pitches
Two ways in
Start from what you already have
Describe door
The describe door is two sentences: what you write about, who it's for.
Modernize my site
Been blogging on an old site? "Modernize my site" reads it from the address and rebuilds it as something current. Publication whose look you admire? "Make me something like this site" borrows the feel — never a word of the writing.
Make it yours
Before the first build, you set the look.
- Quietly exceptionalElegant & refined
- The story, up frontBold & editorial
- Take a breathSoft & calm
- Built for the nightSleek & dark
- An evening to rememberGlamorous & vintage
- The season, consideredFashion magazine
In case you're wondering.
How do I publish a post?
Open the dashboard, fill in the form, save it as a draft for as long as you like, publish when it's ready. No chat, no rebuild, no learning anything new between pieces.
Can I send a newsletter from it?
No — Spanli isn't a newsletter tool and won't pretend to be. Messages and sign-ups from your site's form collect in one list in your dashboard; sending stays with whatever you already use for that.
Do I own it?
Your domain is bought in your name and your writing is yours. Nothing here depends on a platform's feed or its decisions about what to show.
I have years of posts elsewhere. Can I bring them?
"Modernize my site" reads your current site and rebuilds it as a current one, carrying your story across. A large back catalogue is better moved piece by piece as you go — we'd rather say that than promise a one-click migration of hundreds of posts.
What does it cost?
Your first site is free, permanently. Paid plans add your own domain and higher-quality build options.
Ready to see your website?
Describe your business and watch it come to life. Free to start — no credit card required.