The Domain-Only Website Kit Build your own website with an AI assistant, with no monthly hosting bill
The Domain-Only Website Kit helps you build your own website with an AI assistant, then keep one recurring infrastructure bill: the domain, $10.46 a year, with hosting at $0/month on the Cloudflare free plan, for a static site (plain files, no server of your own). The kit costs $129, one payment, with twelve months of dated updates; after that the files stay yours. No prior experience of Astro or Cloudflare is assumed; you type a few commands in a terminal, and a coding agent such as Claude Code runs the others: each named action after your yes to it, the builds and tests of a step without asking; the passwords, the payment and the purchase of the domain stay yours.
What it does: A website on your own domain without a monthly hosting bill, with the playbook (the step-by-step guide) in English and in French: the steps we followed, the official free-plan limits with the date we read them, the 52 traps we ran into, and the real bills (the domain at registry cost, hosting at $0/month on the free plan, and a paid AI plan only if you choose one).
Who it is for
People who want a professional website without monthly hosting fees, from first-time creators to seasoned developers, and who are willing to work in a terminal beside an AI assistant. The playbook sets the order, the 27 prompts write the code with the AI assistant you choose, and a coding agent runs most commands: each named action after your yes, the builds and tests of a step without asking. You install Node.js and Git, type the command that installs the guide and the few commands the kit leaves to you or that your assistant cannot run, and type the passwords and the payment yourself.
Not for: Anyone looking for a website builder with a monthly subscription, or someone who wants an agency to build the site for them.
What it will never do: It includes no user accounts and no subscription billing for your site, and promises no commercial result.
What it solves
- A hosting bill that renews whether the site earns anything or not. The domain becomes the only recurring infrastructure bill. Hosting at $0 a month on the free plan since 2026, a dated reading on our public figures page (the ledger); the domain at $10.46 a year, on invoice.
- Days lost to deployment failures that look like success. You get the order that held, and each trap with the date it cost us. 52 traps in the list delivered with the kit, each dated and tied to where it cost us: one of the sites we manage, or the kit's own test run; counted in 2026 when the archive was packaged.
- Free-plan limits you discover by hitting them. The limits are listed with the date they were read, and re-read at every update. Cloudflare limits read in 2026.
- A site locked inside a builder you cannot leave. The site is a set of files in a repository you own; nothing ties it to our tools or to a website builder's account. The four sites we manage live as files in git repositories we hold; ranthrice.com moved to this path in 2026, after a first test without a terminal (Cloudflare Drop, a route the kit delivers as an annex).
Price and access
The main playbook and its updates are delivered in English and French; every other file is in English, the language of the tools.
Buy The Domain-Only Website Kit
$129 one payment · VAT or sales tax added at checkout by the seller named on your receipt · 12 months of dated updates · no subscription
With the kit, the first year comes to $139.46 before tax and any AI subscription.
You will need
- A terminal: you type a few commands there, the one that installs the guide among them, and read what each command prints; your AI assistant writes the code and runs the named actions after your yes (with a chat assistant, you type them yourself).
- A text editor, a browser and the AI assistant of your choice.
- A Git client, if you follow the GitHub method.
Never opened a terminal? No beginner has gone through the whole method yet, as far as our records show. Where you start from
Checkout, receipt and file delivery are handled by Creem, the seller named on your receipt. You will receive a magic link to your customer portal by email.
What is inside
One archive, delivered through the customer portal after payment. Every count below was read on the packaged archive in 2026.
- The playbook, in English and in French, as Markdown and as PDF (80 pages in English). It teaches the GitHub method (from a repository to Cloudflare, published again at every change: the method of wiserstaff.com, riin-art.com, jira-family-games.pages.dev and now ranthrice.com), with the no-terminal route as an annex (a static folder dragged to Cloudflare Drop, then attached to your account and your domain, documented after our first test with where it stops). The benchmark of your niche is a chapter of it (competitors and offers, site structure, demand and questions, visual direction, each fact with the address it was read on and its date, and the free plan of a search-trends tool as an option: your own key, limit of 100 requests a month, read in 2026), and so is the operating routine: update, redeploy, back up.
- The prompts by step, 27 of them, in English, for the assistant of your choice: from general information and the benchmark of your niche to the test purchase and the operating routine.
- Four registers, in English: the traps we ran into, 52 of them, each dated and tied to one of the sites we manage or to the kit’s own test run; the real costs, each with the date it was read; the compliance checklist of a page that sells; and what we have not verified.
- Our companion skill,
domain-only-site-guide: a folder of Markdown files that gives a coding agent (an AI assistant that can edit files and run commands in your project) the order of the phases, one question at a time in your language, the nine stops where it waits for your word (three confirmations and six gates), and the named actions it runs only after your yes to each one. Four rules no yes lifts: a key never goes through the chat; your passwords, your payments and the purchase of the domain stay yours; never “always allow” on a tool that writes or deletes; a deploy that takes a domain over from another Worker is typed by you. Written for Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity, which read the same open skill format; the path it encodes was executed by us with Claude Code only, and this version of the guide has no recorded run yet. - Fifteen third-party skills, given with the kit and never sold, each in its own folder with its author’s licence, its attribution and the link to its source: eight under MIT for design, motion, typography, accessibility and layout (five of them with three recorded tests each, the other three not yet run with the kit), and seven under Apache 2.0 for search, answer engines, speed and accessibility, not yet run with the kit. Fifteen more entries, which never ship in the archive, come from their publishers: five skills, five servers and one plugin added on demand after your yes, and four command-line tools (Node.js and Git, which you install before you start; the GitHub command line, installed after your yes; wrangler, which runs without an install).
- Fifteen scripts under the MIT licence, documented in one README: checks of the copy, the layout, the links, the speed and an archive before upload; the settings of a Cloudflare zone and of its SPF record; the proof that a provider accepts your key, and your keys handed to the assistant and the Worker without being shown; the installation of the skills of the catalogue and a download checked against the checksum its publisher gives; the visual reading of your niche, the images of your site and its reading copy. Each reads any secret from a file you name, never from the shell.
- The public template repository, under the MIT licence: the site this page is served by, with its Worker (the small Cloudflare program behind the forms and the checkout), stripped of our content.
Where you start from, and what the kit asks of you
The kit is written to be read without prior experience, and it needs a terminal for the method it sells. Where you start changes what you have to learn, and we have not proven every starting point yet:
| Where you start | What the kit asks of you | What we have proven |
|---|---|---|
| You have never opened a terminal | Learning to type a command and read what it prints, and to say yes or no to each action your AI assistant names; the playbook gives the order, the assistant writes the code and runs most commands | Nothing yet: as far as our records show, no beginner has gone through the whole method, and we say so |
| You can install software and follow steps | A text editor, a browser and, with the GitHub method, a Git client | The path held on four sites, each test dated |
| You have already published a site | Nothing more | The path held on four sites, each test dated |
The routes, and what each has proven
The kit never says “for any type of site”. It says what each route has proven on one of the sites we manage:
- Blog: wiserstaff.com, live since 2026. Covered by the kit.
- Showcase, hub or portfolio: ranthrice.com and jira-family-games.pages.dev, both 2026. Covered by the kit.
- Digital product sold online: a real $1 purchase in 2026 through this site’s own checkout, with the signed webhook, the file delivered and the refund. Covered by the kit.
- Physical product paid on delivery: riin-art.com, a client’s shop that we built and manage, with a static product page and an order taken through a form then a messaging app, paid on delivery. Described on what has run; the compliance specific to physical goods sits in the list of what we have not verified.
- Physical product paid online: no test on this stack. Documented, with its own bills, and not executed by us.
What you receive, and under which licence
The playbook, the prompts, the registers and our skill are under the solo licence: one person, unlimited own and client sites, modify freely, keep forever, updates for twelve months. The scripts and the template are under the MIT licence, and each third-party skill keeps its author’s licence in its own folder. The licence page carries the full text; the refunds page says what happens if a file is defective.
What the first year costs
| Line | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Domain, one year | $10.46 | Cloudflare Registrar invoice, 2026 |
| Hosting | $0 | Cloudflare free plan, dated reading on our figures page, 2026 |
| The kit | $129 | decided in 2026 against one-time comparables |
| First year, before tax and any AI subscription | $139.46 | the three lines above |
| A paid AI plan, if you choose one | from $20 a month | Claude Pro, read in 2026 |
Twelve months of updates
Every time a limit, a price or a step changes on one of the sites we manage, the kit is updated; the change is dated in the kit’s version journal and, when it is a reading, on our public figures page. Updates are files delivered through the customer portal, in both languages, not personal help. After the twelfth month the updates stop and the files stay yours.
The path is already public in three places: our first test without a terminal with where it stops, our figures page, which holds every reading behind this page, and the definition of a static site for the one-paragraph version of why hosting costs nothing. If you also want the audit scripts and the article method we use once a site is live, that is The Rig.
What we measured on the sites we manage
Payment tested live with a $1 product. A purchase of this product itself is not on record yet.
Measured with: a dated reading of the hosting account ($0 a month) and PageSpeed Insights tests, both kept in dated audit folders. The readings come from wiserstaff.com, which has been on this stack since 2026; anyone can re-read its sitemap and PageSpeed scores on the live site. ranthrice.com itself has used this method since 2026.
The proof is kept in 3 dated audit folders and shared on request; every figure is also on our figures page.
What we have not verified yet (unverified)
- First-time creators running it without assistance: The prompts and playbook are tested with AI assistants, but no beginner has gone through the whole method yet, as far as our records show. Their questions during onboarding will shape update notes.
- The Cloudflare Drop annex beyond one test: One test, one person, one browser, in 2026. Enough to publish what it does and where it stops; not enough to call the no-terminal route a tested method, so it is not sold as one.
- Anyone running the kit but us: The proof is the system, not the kit: no third party has run it end to end yet.
- The companion skill outside Claude Code: The four sites we manage, the 52 traps and the 27 prompts were produced with Claude Code. Codex and Antigravity read the same open skill format, so the skill is compatible by the specification; we have never executed it with them, and the kit says so.
- Ten of the fifteen given skills: Seven under Apache 2.0 (search, answer engines, speed, accessibility) and three under MIT (typography, accessibility, layout), given with the kit under their authors' licences, with our reading warnings in each attribution file. None of the ten has been run with the kit yet, by us or by anyone, and each file says so.
- A physical product paid online: No test on this stack. The route is documented in the playbook with its own bills, and is delivered as documented, not as executed by us.
The Domain-Only Website Kit: questions
Can't I do this myself with an AI?
Yes. If that is you, start with the free write-up of our first test and our public figures page; they hold the limits, the costs and the tests that found nothing. What the kit adds is what a fresh session cannot know: the order that held on four sites, the 52 traps with the date we paid for each, the free-plan limits with their read date, and twelve months of re-reads when they move.
Is hosting really $0 per month?
On the Cloudflare free plan, yes. wiserstaff.com has paid $0 for hosting since it went live in 2026, a dated reading on our figures page. In our measured setup the recurring infrastructure bill is the domain, at registry cost; an AI subscription, if you use one while building, is a separate and optional line.
What does a year cost, all in?
In our measured setup, running the site costs $10.46 for the domain (invoice of 2026) and $0 for hosting on the free plan. A paid AI plan, if you choose one, is on top: Claude Pro starts at $20 a month as read in 2026. With the kit, the first year comes to $139.46 before any AI subscription.
Isn't all of this in Cloudflare's documentation for free?
The facts are, and the kit links them rather than copying them. What the documentation does not contain is the list of the traps we paid for on the sites we manage or on the kit's own test run, each with its date and site in the delivered file, and the order of steps that held on four sites.
Do I need to know how to code?
You do not write the code yourself, but you do work in a terminal: the 27 prompts generate the code with the AI assistant you choose; a coding agent runs the named actions after your yes, and the builds and tests of a step without asking; you type the passwords, the payment and the few commands the kit leaves to you or that your assistant cannot run. No prior experience of Astro or Cloudflare is assumed. You also need a text editor, a browser and, on the GitHub path, a Git client.
In which languages are the files?
The playbook comes in English and French, both in the same archive, as Markdown and as PDF. Everything else is in English: the 27 prompts by step, the four registers, the companion skill, the scripts and the template. Updates to the playbook are delivered in both languages.
Which AI assistant does the kit need?
None in particular for the playbook and the prompts, which are text you paste into the assistant of your choice. The companion skill is a folder of Markdown files in the open skill format read by Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity; the path it encodes ran with Claude Code only, and this version of the guide has no recorded run yet. Without a coding agent, the prompts pasted into a chat assistant are enough, and you then type the commands yourself.
What are the free-plan limits?
As read on Cloudflare's pages in 2026: on the Workers free plan, 100,000 requests a day, 20,000 files per version of the site and 25 MiB per file; on Workers Builds, 3,000 build minutes a month, one build at a time. The kit lists them with their read date and re-reads them at every update.
What happens after the twelve months?
The updates stop. The files and the licence stay yours, unchanged. No renewal is offered today; if one is, this page will say so, with its price and its date.