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 small 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 small 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 a small 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 the plumber, the dentist, the café that opened last month — 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