Websites for freelancers:take the work,skip the hosting.
A website for freelancers should pay you margin, not put you on call: the subscription from 12,800 ₸ a month is your cost, the invoice you send the client is yours to set, and the difference stays with you. The domain that needs renewing, the host that falls over on a Saturday and the “change the phone number in the footer” message a year later all go with it: the site is built from a ready niche, the client's domain is connected, and the client edits the content themselves — in an admin panel where the assistant shows the list of changes first and waits for approval.
3 days
trial, no card — show a draft before the contract
26
ready themed sites: you do not start from a blank page
from 12,800 ₸
a month — your cost; what you charge the client is yours
Four different people with the same second job
Each of them is good at their own trade and none of them set out to become a server administrator. Below is how the platform removes that second job for 12,800 ₸ a month — and what price to quote when the job goes past a ready-made site: bespoke development from 1,500,000 ₸ is our format too.
26
ready themed sites
With real structure and copy inside, not an empty template
35
kinds of section
Services, prices, gallery, reviews, form, map — the page is built from these
19
tools the assistant has
A 9,900 ₸/month module, and not one change applied without a human approving it
3
site languages
Russian, Kazakh, English — each with its own content, not machine translation
What comes off your plate — and where the platform stops
The left column comes off your plate for 12,800 ₸ a month — hosting, updates and 2am outages included. The right column is INIT's other format: bespoke development from 1,500,000 ₸, a figure you can quote to the client at the brief.
Off your plate
Covered by the subscription from 12,800 ₸ a month plus the 9,900 ₸/month assistant module — not yours at night or a year later
- Hosting and platform updates: you never touch them
- A technical address is issued immediately; the client's own domain is connected separately
- The forms already work — an enquiry creates a card on a kanban board
- Three site languages, each holding its own content
- The client edits copy and prices in plain words, via the 9,900 ₸/month assistant module
- Starting structure and copy already exist across 26 niches
This is what a bespoke build takes
INIT's other format: a landing page from 1,500,000 ₸, a corporate site from 3,000,000 ₸
- Pixel-perfect to an arbitrary design: on subscription a page is built from 35 kinds of section
- Your own code, your own scripts, integrations with other systems
- Customer accounts, calculators, complex order logic — a portal from 8,000,000 ₸
- Server and source access: on subscription the site lives on the platform
- All of it is a separate contract on a fixed quote — and the job stays yours
What clients usually arrive with
From the first call to “this is no longer your site”
The order here is load-bearing: each step is only possible after the one before it, and the last one is the reason the whole thing was worth doing.
You build a draft before the contract
A 3-day trial with no card, and a technical address issued immediately. Take one of the 26 ready niches and five minutes later you have a link to open in front of the client instead of describing the site in words.
A link you can open in the meeting
You fill it with the real thing
Copy, photos, prices, services. Bulk edits go through the assistant: “change the phone number in every section” is one action, but it shows you the list of changes first and waits for you to apply them.
A site carrying the client's real content
You add languages if the client needs Kazakh
Each of the three languages holds its own content. This is not a switch that leads back to the same Russian page: the Kazakh version has to be written — by you, or with the assistant's help.
Three versions with genuinely different content
You connect the client's domain and hand over access
The technical address gives way to the client's domain and the admin panel goes to the business owner. From that moment the site is theirs, not yours.
The client owns the site and the admin panel
The client edits it; you come back for a fee
“Change the phone number” and “add the promotion” happen without you. A new page, a new niche, a new language is new work and a new invoice — not a debt left over from the old project.
A project that closes instead of dragging on
What the client is actually paying you for
The platform takes the infrastructure, not the work. Nothing below is done for you by a template — and it is precisely what you sell.
The offer and the structure
What belongs above the fold, which three objections to answer before the form, what makes this business different from the one next door. A ready niche gives you the frame; it does not know what this client is better at — you find that out at the brief.
The copy
The assistant will rewrite and shorten, but it does not invent facts about the business: prices, guarantees, lead times and terms come from the client, through you.
The photographs
Real pictures of the work and the premises — the thing that stops one tradesperson's site looking like every other tradesperson's site.
Choosing the niche and the sections
26 starting sites and 35 kinds of section assemble into very different things. Deciding what this particular business needs, and in what order, is work rather than configuration.
Teaching the client
Half an hour showing the admin panel and the assistant is why nobody rings you on a Sunday. It is the best-paying half hour of the whole handover.
The price and the margin
A subscription from 12,800 ₸ a month is your cost of goods and the only figure the platform names. What your assembly, your copy and your ongoing care are worth is yours to decide: the markup is entirely yours, and nobody takes a cut of it.
Your cost is 12,800 ₸ a month. Everything above that on the client's invoice is yours to keep.
What eats that difference is not the price of the subscription, it is unpaid on-call. The most expensive client is the one who rings on a Sunday, a year later, to change the phone number in the footer — and that is not greed on their part, it is a design fault: if you are the only person who can change the content, you are the person who will change it, for free, because “it's only five minutes”. A site the owner edits themselves, hosted and updated by the platform, is what actually closes a project — and leaves the markup with you.
A subscription, building it yourself, and bespoke development
Two of the three columns are INIT: a ready site from 12,800 ₸ a month and bespoke development from 1,500,000 ₸. The third is the route where the server, the renewals and the support are personally yours.
| A ready site on the platform | I build and host it myself | INIT bespoke development | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Show the client a working site five minutes in | starts at the brief and the quote | ||
| Starting from a site already built for the niche | 26 niches | designed for the client | |
| A unique design without your own build hours | 9 premium designs from 27,800 ₸/month | Your evenings, on every project | Designed for the client, from 1,500,000 ₸ |
| The client changes copy and prices without you | |||
| Enquiries arrive on a kanban board naming the page | |||
| Three languages with separate content from the start | |||
| Hosting, renewals and updates are not your problem at night | per contract | ||
| How many sites you personally maintain a year later | None | All of them | Per support contract |
| What the client pays | From 12,800 ₸ a month | Hosting, domain and your hours | From 1,500,000 ₸ |
| The same handover process on the tenth client | project by project |
“Partial” in the self-built column because the client only edits it themselves if you build them an admin panel separately, and the second and third language only exist if you planned for them from the beginning. The subscription figures: a landing page 12,800 ₸/month, a corporate site 14,700 ₸/month, premium designs 27,800–32,800 ₸/month.
What you can safely promise a client
Sentences you can lift straight into a proposal and not have to explain away at handover.
The site and access
Enquiries and edits
A portfolio that does not go stale between projects
A separate reason to be here — not for a client, for you. A social profile is somebody else's shop window with somebody else's rules about who sees it; on your own site you decide what comes first, and people find you by searching rather than by algorithm.
A new case study goes up in minutes, not next sprint
A new project is a new card in the gallery and a paragraph of text. No email to a developer, no waiting for a slot in their week: you open the admin panel and do it yourself, including the order the work appears in.
Enquiries do not arrive as DMs
The form on the site creates a card on the board: you can see which page the person came from and what they wrote. A second message from the same person is not merged into the first and is not lost.
Russian, Kazakh and English
In Almaty that is not decoration: someone searching in Kazakh finds your Kazakh text. Each version keeps its own content rather than a machine translation of its neighbour.
What people ask before the first job
Short answers with concrete figures in them.
Build the first site in five minutes — yours or a client's
A 3-day trial, no card. The technical address is issued immediately, so you can show the result before you send the invoice. After that it is a subscription from 12,800 ₸ a month — and for anything non-standard we quote a bespoke build from 1,500,000 ₸.
- A your-name.shardit.app address, immediately after signing up
- Enquiries from the site land on a kanban board from minute one
- A subscription from 12,800 ₸ a month, and nothing charged before the trial ends
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