Value propositions · Plain claims
Three products, one outcome: a real website you own. This page states what each one promises, the mechanic that makes each claim true, and the trade-offs we would rather you hear from us.
For painters, plumbers, electricians, landscapers, roofers, HVAC, cleaners, salons
A real website on your own domain, live the same day, with every quote request going straight to your inbox for free.
No setup fee. No lead fees.
Cancel anytime, domain stays yours.
Answer three questions (trade, city, name), see a demo with your name on it, subscribe, and it is live.
The funnel personalizes a trade-specific template and publishes the moment you subscribe.
Quote requests land in your inbox. Nobody resells them, nobody charges per contact.
The built-in quote form delivers directly to your email. Compare Angi and Thumbtack, which bill per lead.
Change your hours, add a photo, update prices. Just ask in plain English.
Edits go through the AI, not a page builder.
Service list, service area, before-and-after gallery, reviews, and a clear "get a quote" button.
Templates tuned to how service businesses get hired, not a generic small-business shell.
Domain, branded email address, free AI logo, SEO basics, and 100 business cards with a QR code to the site.
Bundled in the monthly price. No add-on tiers.
Cancel and we send you the transfer code. No hostage domains.
Self-service cancellation at /cancel. The domain is released on cancel.
Email reaches the founder, not a ticket queue.
RunCabin is a founder-run studio in Baltimore, Maryland.
For owners, indie hackers, and developers who want to build it themselves
Describe your site in plain English and publish a working one, with its own AI agent, a real Postgres database, your own domain, and real source code you can buy outright.
250,000 Cabin tokens on signup, no card.
Runtime AI metered at 1 token = $0.00003.
Optional $99.99 one-time Repository Buyout.
Visitors talk to your site's agent for free. It answers, qualifies, and books.
The chat surface is the primary call to action. The agent runs on Claude with streaming and prompt caching.
Not a rented chat widget carrying someone else's logo.
Each published Cabin is its own container with its own agent, domain, SSL, and email forwarding.
Visitors never see a key prompt. You never paste one.
RunCabin pays Anthropic upstream and meters you in Cabin tokens. Pennies per conversation.
Build things that remember: voting, scheduling, intake forms, calculators, shared state.
The Vibe SDK gives each Cabin its own Postgres schema with parameterized queries, a destructive-SQL blocklist, and statement limits.
The source lives in a private GitHub repo. A one-time $99.99 makes it yours with a perpetual license to host anywhere.
The Repository Buyout. Most builders have nothing to hand over at any price.
Open the repo in Claude Code or Cursor six months later and the AI already knows the house rules. Nobody else ships this.
A development contract at the repo root: data safety, commit hygiene, webhook idempotency, SDK contract, test layout.
Build a full first version and iterate on it before paying anything.
250,000 Cabin tokens on signup. A real first build runs roughly 150,000 to 200,000.
$9.99/mo covers hosting, SSL, email forwarding, and platform updates. No tiers.
Launch pricing. Runtime AI is metered separately and shown plainly.
Your site runs on 100% renewable electricity.
Hetzner Falkenstein, certified hydropower, PUE 1.10 to 1.16. Details.
For anyone whose AI assistant or coding tool should handle "put it online"
Connect once over MCP and your assistant can take a site live end to end: an instant free HTTPS URL with no DNS and no API keys, and a real custom domain whenever you want one, with every paid step approved by you.
Custom domain: domain price + $19.99/mo hosting.
Every payment is a human-approved checkout.
Create and deploy in one call. Live immediately over HTTPS, no wait, no card.
One publish call returns a live yourname.sites.runcabin.com address. Free forever.
You never open a registrar dashboard or paste a key.
OAuth 2.1 sign-in in the browser. RunCabin wires registration, DNS, and TLS automatically.
The agent cannot spend money, by design.
Domain availability and price are free to check. Buying hands you a checkout link on RunCabin's own page.
Buy through RunCabin or bring your own. Cancel and we release the domain with a transfer code.
Domain price plus $19.99/mo hosting is shown up front. Bring-your-own domains get the exact DNS records to set.
A hosted static site gets a real lead form. Submissions are stored, emailed to the owner, and readable by the agent.
Form creation and submission reads are MCP tools. No third-party form service.
hello@your-domain forwarding, plus TXT records for Search Console, Bing, Stripe, and DMARC, without touching DNS.
Email forwarding and TXT records are MCP tools for domains bought through RunCabin.
Preview, promote, roll back.
Preview deploys, promotion, rollback, and health checks are all tools your assistant can call.
Registrar-agnostic. A site is yours to take with you.
Static files, standard domain transfer, self-service cancellation.
One-click setup in Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf.
Published on the official MCP Registry as com.runcabin/cabin. Setup at /connect.
Proof point: Technical Rhymer, a rhyming dictionary built with Claude Code and published entirely through this pipeline: site, assets, and custom domain.
Side by side
RunCabin gets a real website live on your own domain, fast. Built by us, built by you with AI, or deployed by your AI assistant. Whichever door, you own the result.
| Done-for-you | AI Website Builder | For AI agents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who | Local trades, no time | Owners, indie hackers, developers | Anyone with an AI assistant |
| How it gets built | We build it | You describe it to Cobble | Your assistant deploys it |
| Headline promise | Live today, leads free | Real agent, real database, real code | Free URL, real domain, no DNS |
| Price | $39.99/moNo setup fee, no lead fees | Free trial, $9.99/mo to publishOptional $99.99 one-time buyout | Free subdomainCustom domain: domain price + $19.99/mo |
| What you own | Domain and leads | Domain, leads, and code (buyout) | Domain and site files |
| Lead differentiator | No lead fees | AGENTS.md in every repo | The agent never moves money |
Common questions
Angi and Thumbtack own the lead and bill you per inquiry, often selling the same lead to several contractors. RunCabin's done-for-you trades website sends every quote request straight to your inbox for free. There are no lead fees on any RunCabin product.
Wix and Squarespace keep you inside an editor with nothing to export. Lovable and v0 generate code but leave hosting, database, domain, and email to you. RunCabin publishes a working site with its own AI agent, a real Postgres database, and your own domain, and keeps the source in a private GitHub repo you can buy outright for a one-time $99.99. Every repo ships with an AGENTS.md development contract so the next AI coding tool knows the house rules.
No. The free path (an instant HTTPS subdomain and hosted contact forms) is fully autonomous. Any paid step, such as buying a custom domain with $19.99/mo hosting, hands the human a checkout link on RunCabin's own page. The assistant never moves money.
You do, on every RunCabin product. If you bought the domain through RunCabin and cancel, RunCabin sends you the transfer code so you can take it to any registrar. Cancellation is self-service.
250,000 Cabin tokens on signup with no card required. That covers a full first build with room to iterate. Publishing is $9.99/mo, with runtime AI metered separately at 1 Cabin token = $0.00003.
Still deciding
Not sure which door fits? Email hello@runcabin.com or book a free 30-minute consult. It reaches the founder.
We'll get back to you within one business day.