SiteCurb VS ShellNewHandler

SiteCurb's answer

SiteCurb does one thing: websites for individual real estate agents. That focus shows up in both the pricing and the setup.

There is no setup fee, no IDX add-on, no annual contract and no demo call. It is $39/month flat, and you can build the entire site free before a card ever comes out — you only pay when you publish.

The templates are designed for this specific job rather than adapted from a general-purpose website builder. Each one gives you a hero that carries your own tagline, listing pages with proper photo galleries, "why work with me" points, client quotes, and an inquiry form on every listing that emails you the moment someone writes — with reply-to set to the lead, so you can answer straight from your phone.

Sites are built to score 100/100 on PageSpeed, ship with a broker-disclosure footer, and convert listing photos to WebP automatically.

SiteCurb's answer

Cost and friction, mostly.

• Most agent-website platforms stack a $500-$3,500 setup fee on top of a monthly fee on top of an IDX add-on, and most will not quote you without a sales call first. First-year totals commonly land between $1,000 and $7,000. SiteCurb is $39/month with nothing else attached.
• You can build the whole site — template, listings, photos, copy — free, and only pay when you publish. You never have to judge it from a screenshot.
• No contract. Cancel and the billing stops; your work stays saved.
• Sites are built for speed (100/100 PageSpeed), which template-heavy platforms in this category often are not.

Where SiteCurb is not the right choice: it does not include an MLS/IDX feed or a CRM. If you need live MLS search on your site, pick a platform built around IDX.

SiteCurb's answer

Individual real estate agents in the United States — solo agents and small teams, not brokerages.

The need is easy to size. Across a dataset of 448,267 US agents, only 6.1% have a website on a domain they own. Another 4.4% have a page on their brokerage's domain, and 89.4% have no website listed at all.

That last group is the audience: agents who were priced out by platforms built and sold to teams and brokerages, and who mostly need one credible place for a referral to land when somebody hears their name and searches it.

SiteCurb's answer

SiteCurb grew out of building data and directory products for the US real estate industry. Working with agent records at scale made two things obvious.

First, the overwhelming majority of agents have no website of their own — we measured it at roughly one in sixteen. Second, the products aimed at them are priced and sold like enterprise software: setup fees, annual contracts, and a demo call before anyone will even tell you the price.

The gap was never design or technology. It was price and friction. So SiteCurb was built as the opposite of that: pick a template, add your listings, publish. Flat $39/month, no call, no contract, and free until you decide to go live.

SiteCurb's answer

Next.js (App Router) and React with TypeScript on the front end, Tailwind CSS for styling, and Supabase (PostgreSQL, auth and storage) for data. Stripe handles billing, Resend handles transactional email, and the whole thing is deployed on Vercel.

A few implementation details that matter to the product: published sites are served through hostname-based multi-tenant routing, so every agent's site is statically rendered and cached rather than assembled per request. Listing photos are converted to WebP and served responsively. Each published site gets its own address at yourname.sitecurb.com with automatic TLS; connecting a custom domain you already own is on the roadmap.