For designers
Name the typeface and the colours. They ship in a live site.
Ostler Studio, a portfolio for a design studio, set in the typefaces and colours its sentence names, was built from the sentence below. It is live at ostler-studio.instroc.app.
What it got with nothing to set up: your typefaces and colours · a database · a live address · your own domain (Hobby and up).
Five more sentences to paste
Each builds a working app with the parts listed beside it. A part that needs a paid plan says which.
The review room
A client review room: I upload this round's screens, the client signs in, leaves a note on each screen and approves the round.
- Sign-in and accounts · File storage · Each person sees their own
- Sign-in and accounts
- File storage
- Each person sees their own
The print shop
A shop for my prints: a grid of works, three sizes and prices for each, checkout to my own payment account, and a list of orders for me.
- A database · Payments to your account (Hobby and up) · An inbox for messages
- A database
- Payments to your account (Hobby and up)
- An inbox for messages
The component site
A site for our design system: every component shown live, its tokens beside it, and a button that copies the code.
- A database · A live address · Teammates who edit (Starter and up)
- A database
- A live address
- Teammates who edit (Starter and up)
The moodboard
A moodboard for my team: drop in images, tag them, group them into boards and share a board with a link.
- Sign-in and accounts · File storage · A database
- Sign-in and accounts
- File storage
- A database
The case study
One long case study page set in a heavy grotesque, black on white, with the before and after screens side by side and a counter of who read to the end.
- A live address · Visits and sources · Your own domain (Hobby and up)
- A live address
- Visits and sources
- Your own domain (Hobby and up)
Live now, built on Instroc
Real apps at real addresses. Open one and use it.
Lagoon
A clifftop villa site where the scroll brings the evening, from dusk to starry night.
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Vessel
A product site for makers, one unbroken camera move along the maker's bench.
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Atelier Noir
A photography studio for the slow, the considered, the printed.
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Sumi
A quiet habit ledger with a self-drawing ensō and brush-stroke marks.
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Asked before starting
- Will it keep my typeface and colours?
- Name them in the sentence and the build uses them: the typeface, the hex values, the spacing you ask for. Anything that comes out wrong, you click and describe, or edit the text right on the preview.
- Can I edit the code myself?
- Yes. Every app is real React and TypeScript, and you can read and download the source on every plan, Free included. From Hobby ($6/month) up you can also edit the code in the built-in editor.
- What does it cost a freelancer?
- A portfolio can be built and published on the Free plan. Your own domain starts at Hobby ($6/month). The plans: Free $0, 30 credits a month, $5 of hosting usage once; Hobby $6/month, 40 credits a month, $5 of hosting usage a month; Starter $15/month, 100 credits a month, $10 of hosting usage a month; Pro $40/month, 250 credits a month, $20 of hosting usage a month; Business $80/month, 500 credits a month, $25 of hosting usage a month. Building spends credits; a running app spends hosting usage, and each plan includes some.
- Can it take payments for my work?
- Yes, on every paid plan from Hobby ($6/month). You connect your own payment account by approving it on the provider's site, with no secret key to copy. Money goes straight to you, and each payment is recorded in the app's database against the customer who paid.
- What about client data?
- Each app has its own database. A customer sees only their own records unless you decide otherwise, table by table. You can pick where an app's database lives, keep a workspace's new apps in Europe, and take a backup whenever you want. From Hobby ($6/month), a backup is also taken every day and the last 7 are kept.
Your design, built and live, from one sentence.
After sign-up the sentence is waiting in your prompt box. Nothing is built until you press send. The Free plan needs no card.