Build a free website for your small business before you sign up
Felix Hellström
Founder, Klarhimmel
Most website builders want your email address before they show you anything. You type a business name, you get a form, and the page comes later. I understand why, but it is a poor way to find out if a tool is any good. With our Business Launcher you do it the other way round. You describe your business, you see a first page, and you only make an account if you want to keep what you saw. Here is what that looks like, including the parts that are not free.
You start on the Business Launcher page, at klarhimmel.com/websites. There is one box. Write two or three sentences, in English or Swedish: what the business is called, what you do, where you are, when you are open, what things cost. If you already have a website, paste its address instead and tick "This is my website", and the new page is built from that. No sign-up to start. The page tells you this itself: "Describe your business and see a first page. No sign-up to start."
Then you read what comes back. The page is written from what you said. What you did not tell it is left out, not made up, so if you did not give your hours you will see that they are missing, not a made-up Monday to Friday. Read it with your phone in your hand, the way a customer would. Change what is wrong by saying so: "we are closed on Mondays now", "put the phone number at the top". You change it in plain words and see the change on the page. You still have not made an account.
Now the honest part. To keep the page you sign in. You do that with your Google account or with a code we send by email, so there is no password to invent and forget. After that the page is yours to keep and you can put it live at an address ending in klarhimmel.page, free, no card needed. At the bottom there is a small "Made with Klarhimmel" line. Your own domain, the .com or .se you may have in mind, comes with the paid plan, and that plan is not open yet. There is a waiting list for it. I would rather tell you this now than have you print the address on a van and then find out.
Two more limits. It is one page, built from ready blocks, and you change it by saying what you want. It is not a multi-page shop, and it does not take bookings or payments. If you need a calendar or a basket, this is not the tool today. For a bike repair shop, a baker, a plumber or a hairdresser who needs people to see the hours, the prices and a phone number, one page is often enough.
And a page does not get you found on Google by itself. That is a separate job, with a few free steps you can do alone, and I wrote them down in the piece on how a small business gets found on Google.
If you try any "no sign up" builder, ours or another, I would check four things before you put work into it. First, can you keep what you made? Some tools let you play and then lose it when you close the tab. Second, what is free and what is paid, written in plain words, and whether a card is asked for. Third, who owns the domain. If the address is registered in the tool's name, moving later can be hard, so ask whether you can take it with you. Fourth, can you get your text out, or change it yourself later without calling anyone? None of these is a trick question. A good tool will answer them on its own pages.
To see what you would get, the link below fills the box with a made-up example, a bike repair shop that does not exist. Change the name, the prices and the hours to yours, and press Enter when you are ready. Nothing is built until you do.
