SiteArcade author sites, $1K a month, self-reported in 2023: minutes to launch

SiteArcade sells professional author websites with domains, email, design tools and automatic updates. Its $1K a month was founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of October 2023.

What it actually sells

SiteArcade sells professional author websites with domains, email, design tools and automatic updates. Its stated audience is “Where ever you are in your author journey, we’ve got you covered.” The site describes the product as “For authors, by authors.”

Users can paste an Amazon profile link and automatically import books and author information. The website promotes releases, preorders, sales and custom promotions, prioritizes new releases, best-sellers and series starters, and includes social links, a spam-protected contact form and automatic press kits on the Pro Author plan.

How it charges

The product's price could not be identified on the pages we read. Currency amounts appear on the pages, but none could be tied to the product's own pricing.

Where customers come from

The site publishes an author-focused blog and lists appearances at writing and book events, including 20Books Vegas and The Sell More Books Show. It also provides private sharing links that let users collect feedback from peers before subscribing.

What stands out

SiteArcade says a WordPress website can take 14 weeks to build and states, “With SiteArcade, it takes minutes.” It also says, “we have new features coming every month.”

From the official site

Where ever you are in your author journey, we’ve got you covered.

Rest easy while your website auto-promotes new releases, preorders, and sales.

With SiteArcade, it takes minutes.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

SiteArcade's $1K a month is higher than 40% of the 6,604 projects with founder-reported monthly revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $2K. Snapshot: 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: the buyer is an author at any stage of the publishing journey who needs a website connected to books, releases and reader contact tools. Distribution could come from an author-focused blog, writing and book events, and private sharing links used for feedback.

The hard parts are building reliable imports from author profiles, maintaining automatic updates and supporting custom domains and email. The market also requires attention to spam protection, contact-form support, privacy obligations and competition among website builders and publishing tools.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest product lesson is to define the buyer precisely: SiteArcade focuses its website, imports, promotions and contact tools on authors throughout their publishing journeys.

Sources

SiteArcade official website, fetched October 1, 2026
SiteArcade pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
Indie Hackers product page: revenue founder-reported on the Indie Hackers product page (not independently verified), as of October 2023

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure