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- Move in an existing site from a static-site export as an unpublished draft that can be undone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.
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