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Side hustlers

Sell your first website

Build a website for a local business in minutes and sell it under your own name, in the hours around the work you already do.

Demo website
The home page of Bladewick Barbers, a fictional barber shop, one of the demo websites.

A week around your job

Four evenings, one step each, from a search to a preview the owner can approve.

  1. The business lookup search: a category, a town, the country and the number of businesses to find.

    Monday

    Search the business lookup for businesses in your town that need a website.

    Find businesses

  2. The form that builds a site: the business name, one line about it and the kind of business.

    Tuesday

    Build previews for the businesses that fit best, one form each.

    Build a preview

  3. The page a business opens from a preview link, under the name of a fictional web studio.

    Wednesday

    Send each preview from your own email address, under your name.

    Send a preview

  4. The Approve and pay page on a fictional web studio's storefront: the approval wording, the name, the role and the box.

    Friday

    Follow up with interested owners, who approve and pay on your storefront.

    Approval

This is an example schedule. What you earn depends on your prices, your market and your effort, as our earnings disclosure explains.

Screens and businesses shown are fictional.

Start small

Begin with one business in your own town, and let your storefront grow with each client you sign.

The pricing page shows how to start without a monthly plan, and what each live site costs. See the plans.

Storefront
The storefront of Harbor Web Co., a fictional web studio, with its name, its logo and its three levels of site, where the prices are covered.
Your storefront, under your name, as soon as you name it.

Questions

How much time does it take?

A preview takes minutes to build. Finding businesses and talking with owners happens at the pace you choose, around the work you already do.

The website builder

Do I need experience?

No. Our AI writes and builds the site, and you change anything by describing it in plain words.

Build a preview

How do I find my first client?

Search your own town in the business lookup, pick a business with no website, and send it a preview.

The business lookup

Do I pay anything up front?

The pricing page shows every plan, including a way to start without a monthly plan, and the 14-day trial on the paid plans.

See the plans

What if a business says no?

Its preview comes down on its own after 30 days, or sooner with one click, and you move on to the next business.

Take down a preview

Where do I get help?

Every screen has a guide in the docs, and the contact form reaches us directly.

The docs

Start selling websites with Ironstone.

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