Romulus
Find local businesses without websites and sell them one
Hey IH 👋
I'm Eesh, CS student at Georgia Tech, and I've been building Romulus solo for the past few months.
The premise: tons of local businesses still don't have websites. Plenty of people want a side hustle. The tools to bridge the two are a mess. Apollo for leads, Webflow to build, Loom for previews, Stripe for payment, hosting somewhere else, manual asset transfer at the end. Five tools, five headaches, and you're paying for all of them before you've made a dollar.
Romulus puts the whole workflow in one tool. You find businesses without websites, generate a tailored site, edit it, set your price, and send a preview link with a built-in pay button. Romulus handles checkout, hosting, and asset transfer automatically. $49/month.
Quick 90-second walkthrough if you want to see it: https://youtu.be/sx5taMh3lZ4
Why I'm posting on IH specifically: this is an indie hacker product for indie hackers. The whole point is that a solo person can run a real local web design business off this without needing to build the infrastructure themselves. I'd love feedback from anyone who's tried the local services side hustle and hit the workflow pain I'm trying to solve.
Launching on Product Hunt June 23. Affiliate program is live (40% recurring, up to 12 months) if anyone wants in.
Happy to answer questions.
1 Comment
The wedge is strong because you are not just helping people build websites. You are packaging the full local-services workflow into one loop: find the business, generate the site, edit it, send the preview, collect payment, host it, and hand over assets.
That matters because the buyer is not a designer with a full stack already. It is someone trying to turn “businesses with no website” into a repeatable side hustle without stitching five tools together before earning anything.
One thing I would pressure-test before the Product Hunt launch is the product naming. Romulus is memorable, but it does not immediately carry the workflow/platform angle. For a product that is really becoming a local web design operating system, the name may need to signal speed, control, and one-place execution faster.
Xevoa .com would fit that direction well because it feels more like a workflow platform brand and gives you room to expand beyond websites into lead sourcing, client previews, payments, hosting, delivery, and maybe other local-service workflows later.