Meet SitewynA self-hosted AI website builder SaaS. A business of your own.

Changelog

What changed, release by release.

Updates are free for licence holders. The super-admin Updates page tells you when a new version is out and shows these notes.

v1.0.0 (2026-10-07)

Initial release.

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of the copy), or bring an existing website's logo, colours, fonts and facts across.

cancel keeps the pages already built.

Sitewyn's renderer draws. 42 section types with 102 layout variants.

navigation consistency).

links or embed codes in the media library; video sections with a gallery layout and click-to-load players; muted

background videos for heroes and sections with a still for reduced motion; the wizard, brand kits and chat place the

owner's videos and never invent video links.

AI images in the hero sections. Capped per site by the operator (default 3) and per month by the plan.

layout variants, a section library, pages panel, design tokens, media and SEO panels. Manual edits cost no credits.

canvas, apply, discard and undo. Section regeneration with an instruction.

brand-kit style presets, credit cost shown first) and chat (generate_image, the proposal shows the image). Images

are stored as WebP with alt text and their prompt and model.

login, search, analytics) through the site runtime at /_sw/*.

automatic rechecks; certificates issued and renewed by Caddy on-demand TLS behind an approval endpoint.

Turnstile.

orders; payments to the site owner's Stripe (Checkout), PayPal, Razorpay or bank transfer.

reschedule links for visitors.

Google Analytics / Tag Manager / Meta Pixel IDs, AI audit with fixes.

with replies and resolve, approve or request changes, content-only editing, read-only inbox and analytics.

stock photo search (Unsplash, Pexels) with a curated fallback; save a site as a private template.

section gating per plan, demo controls, builder health, storage.

AI cost and margin by day, model, kind and workspace with CSV export.

coupons, 12 online gateways plus bank transfer and an offline test gateway, invoices with tax and India GST,

provider key pools and per-workspace BYOK, CMS landing page, blog and legal pages, publish-time website translation,

26 interface languages with RTL, email templates and transports, licence activation, signed update checks,

backups, health and logs.

probes and a one-time install token.

gpt-image-1.5); without one, images come from uploads, stock search or the curated list.

updates.

Site generation

  • Create wizard with three starts: describe the business, start from one of 21 templates (with an optional AI rewrite
  • Page plan review before credits are spent: rename, reorder, add or remove pages and sections, then confirm.
  • Live build screen: per-page timeline, agent activity, progressive canvas; credits charged as each page completes;
  • Structured generation: the AI writes a validated site document (pages, sections, theme tokens, navigation, SEO) that
  • Quality checks after every build (alt text, links, one main heading per page, required content, contrast,
  • Built-in demo generator: every AI step works without a provider key (SITEWYN_AI_MODE=auto falls back to it).
  • Videos: MP4 / WebM uploads (sniffed, fast-start, browser poster, admin size limit) and YouTube, Vimeo, Loom and Wistia
  • AI image generation: library photos first, then stock, then AI for slots nothing fits; "Generate custom images" puts

Editor

  • Visual editor with click-to-edit on the canvas, inline text editing, an inspector (content, style, advanced),
  • Chat edits scoped to the site, a page, a section or one element; answers arrive as proposals with preview on the
  • Desktop, tablet and phone breakpoints, zoom, undo and redo, autosave.
  • Generate with AI: from any image field, the image editor, the media library (1 to 4 images, five aspect ratios,
  • Version history: every publish is an immutable version; named snapshots; preview, download and restore.
  • Publish dialog with pre-publish checks and a change summary.

Publishing and domains

  • Static prerender on publish: HTML on disk served by Caddy; dynamic parts (forms, cart, checkout, bookings, member
  • Free subdomain per site on the platform's wildcard sites domain.
  • Custom domains: wizard with exact DNS records and provider hints, per-record checks with plain-language problems,
  • Static ZIP export of the live version.
  • Per-site password protection, hide from search engines, maintenance mode, cookie banner, custom CSS.

Site features

  • Forms: submissions inbox (new, read, spam, archived), CSV export, notification emails, auto-replies, webhooks,
  • CMS collections with nine field types, CSV import / export, drafts, scheduled publishing; a blog on every site.
  • Store: physical, digital and service products, variants, stock, categories, coupons, tax rules, shipping zones,
  • Bookings: services, staff, availability rules and exceptions, deposits, week calendar and list, cancel and
  • Members: visitor sign-up and login, member-only content, member-owned records.
  • SEO: title templates, meta, social images, structured data, sitemap, robots.txt, redirects with CSV import,
  • Languages: AI translation of a whole site (missing, outdated or all), real pages per language with hreflang.
  • Analytics without cookies: visitors, page views, pages, referrers, countries, devices, conversions, revenue, CSV.

Agency tools

  • Client portal: invite a client per site with permissions; review the draft at three breakpoints, pinned comments
  • Site collaborators with per-site roles; workspace team with roles.
  • Brand kits from a URL, a logo or by hand; media library with folders, focal point, alt text and storage meter;

Super admin

  • Sites across all workspaces (suspend, unpublish, re-publish all), domains and SSL settings, template collection,
  • AI: model tiers, prompt overrides with test, kill switch, editable credit prices per AI action, generation logs,
  • SaaS core: tenants and users with impersonation, plans with feature flags and limits, credit packs and ledger,

Install

  • Docker Compose with Caddy, PostgreSQL, Redis and optional MinIO; one install script; web installer with requirement
  • PM2 path with Caddy as a system service.

Known limitations

  • AI image generation needs an image model on an OpenAI-compatible key (for example gpt-image-2.5-flare or
  • Video uploads accept H.264 MP4 and WebM; HEVC / .mov files from phones must be exported as H.264 first.
  • Editing translated text by hand is not available; change the source language and re-translate.
  • The Next.js project export add-on, Stripe Elements, credit notes and 12 regional gateway drivers are planned as later
  • One-click in-app update apply is not part of 1.0; updates use the documented rebuild.