DIYBand.net alpha
The free punk rock website maker for musicians
It’s a little rough, but it gets the job done.
- Social links
- Embed Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.
- Photo galleries
- Write pages in Markdown
- Custom CSS
Examples
So what’s the deal here?
My name is Steve and I made DIYBand because it’s cheaper to run an entire web site maker for all indie musicians than it is to pay Squarespace to host all my bands’ web sites.
DIYBand is rough and simple compared to its paid competitors, but maybe it’s worth dealing with that rather than paying $1000/year if you have five projects.
What’s the catch?
DIYBand is built by one guy named Steve, and not an army of software engineers and designers working for a VC-backed tech company. So feature development is slow, and there are no super-polished built-in themes.
The page editor is extremely bare-bones because I work on it in my spare time.
Feature comparison
| DIYBand Literally free |
Squarespace $192/yr plan |
Bandzoogle $99/yr plan |
Wix $204/yr plan |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nice URL | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Link your socials | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Photo galleries | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Easy for non-techies | Ehhh…kinda | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Contact form | X | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Sell music | Link to your Bandcamp | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Built-in themes | X | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Sell merch | Link to your Bandcamp | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Analytics | Plug in Google Analytics | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Mailing list | Not built in, but you can embed Buttondown or Mailchimp or whatever | Extra $60-288/yr | ✔️ | Not built in, but you can embed Buttondown or Mailchimp or whatever |
| Custom CSS | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | X |
| Embed videos | From YouTube, etc. (DIYBand does not host videos) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Show calendar | Embed Bandsintown | Embed Bandsintown | ✔️ | Embed Bandsintown |
That sounds kinda jank, I’d rather pay a tech company to host my web site
OK, you do you!