Pane

Coming soon

Alternative to Squarespace

Also replaces Wix

A five-page business site with a contact inbox and rollback.

Pane is a small business website with five pages and a contact inbox. You preview every change, publish when you are happy, and can roll back in one step. It is free, open source and MIT licensed.

What it does

  • Prepare and preview five pages: home, about, services, hours and contact
  • Approve and publish, with the approver and exact version recorded
  • Restore an earlier version of the site in one step
  • Receive messages from a contact form on the live site and read or erase them
  • See approximate page-view counts without cookies or visitor tracking
  • Move in an existing site from a static-site export as an unpublished draft that can be undone
  • Back up and restore the site and inbox
  • Let an agent prepare drafts while only the owner publishes

What it promises

  • Every private action requires a signed-in person; owners publish, roll back and erase messages, admins prepare and preview, and members can only read.
  • Each version holds the complete five-page snapshot, and publishing records who approved it.
  • Contact form submissions are only counted once even if sent twice.
  • Visit counts store only the day and page, with no cookies, visitor IDs, IP addresses or referrers.
  • Imports keep a journal and refuse a reversal that would be unsafe.
  • Erasing a message is recorded so that an older backup cannot bring it back.
  • Page text is shown as plain text, so pasted HTML is not run.
Read the full contract

Move in from

  • Static-site JSON export (the documented five-page format)

Run it yourself

Install the command once, then clone a product and start it.

Terminal
npx -y @runeditrun/rer cli install
git clone https://github.com/just-every/run-pane
cd run-pane && rer dev

No npm? curl -fsSL https://runeditrun.com/install.sh | sh installs the same command.

Runs on
Your own Cloudflare account, or your own computer to try it
Licence
MIT, free