Overview
Author Site Kit is a productized website template for indie authors. Instead of paying a designer or renting a website builder forever, an author fills in a short form — their name, series, and books — watches a live preview of their site update as they type, and gets a complete, deployable Next.js project they own outright.
The Customizer
The center of the product is a live customizer: a form on one side, a real-time preview of the resulting author site on the other. It can generate first-draft copy — author bio, series description, per-book blurbs — tuned to the author's genre, all editable inline before purchase.
What the Author Gets
- A complete site — homepage, series read-through pages, per-book pages with structured data and per-book SEO, a blog, and newsletter integration
- No lock-in — a real Next.js codebase the author owns, hosted free on Vercel
- Automated setup — on purchase, a fresh GitHub repository is provisioned and pre-filled with the author's content
Stack
Next.js and Tailwind throughout, with a checkout and post-purchase flow that provisions each buyer's repository through the GitHub API and sends transactional email. There's a live demo site built entirely with the template.