AN OPEN LETTERWhy I built StoutStack.
Hi there,
I'm Maks, and I run a digital marketing agency. Since 2018, my team and I have built more business websites than I can count. Good ones, the kind that make a phone ring. I'm proud of that work.
But here's something I kept noticing, and it had nothing to do with how good the site was. About six months after launch, the owner wants to change something small: a price, a photo, the hours that have been wrong since spring. None of the ways to do it are hard, exactly, but they all come with friction: email whoever built it and wait, fight a do-it-yourself builder over a font size, or call the friend who's “good with computers” and means very well.
And when you're busy running a business, “small change” quietly becomes “someday,” and someday has a famously bad attendance record.
That always felt backwards to me. For most businesses, the website is the first thing a new customer sees: before the call, before the visit, before anything. It should be the hardest-working thing they own. Instead it sits there collecting dust, quietly turning work away.
So I built the thing I kept wishing existed: a companion to the work my agency already does. A site you'd be proud of, that you can update yourself in a few minutes: change a price, swap a photo, fix the hours, done. No hosting to babysit, no code to touch, and priced so any business can actually say yes.
And it's made for the techie and the non-techie alike. If you like to tinker, there's plenty under the hood: your own domain, forms, and two dozen ready-made blocks to build any page you need. If you'd rather never see a line of code, you never will. Either way, your site comes out fast, found on Google, and secure.
A good website shouldn't be a luxury. Every business deserves one that brings them work.
That's StoutStack. It's for anyone with something to sell and a story worth telling, and, sure, for the person who reads release notes for fun. If that sounds like what you've been needing, I'd love for you to try it. Worst case, you end up with a great-looking website, and as worst cases go, that one's pretty good.
Talk soon,
Maks
Founder, StoutStack