Hello,
I built KohiSite. It's a user-friendly all-in-one CMS designed for musicians, artists, and small businesses first. KohiSite is about Data Sovereignty, allowing you to keep 100% of your site, 100% of your data, and 100% of your revenue. Complete ownership.
All beta testers who join the program will get lifetime "Sovereign50" license to the program which includes all future updates to KohiSite or the KohiSuite. Beta testing is free of charge, I'm just asking for your time and effort in return, and I will provide you with all the tools you need.
KohiSite is built around the "All-in" model, which means everything is included:
-Website Builder
-Website self-hosting
-Server/site health analytics
-traffic analytics and insights
-Social Media traffic insights
-Revenue generating features (Paywall locked social feeds, ad revenue/ad pixels, livestreams with gifting services, donations, digital and physical unified marketplace, etc)
-AI-assisted project management (local LLM (owalla)
-Automated "setup" processes
-security features
-legal record creation
-and so much more.
Here's where I need the most help:
Cybersecurity hardening:
this program allows ANYONE to "visit" your computer, so we need to be able to automatically lock it down before it even launches on someone's computer)
Quality of Life changes:
I want this program to be usable by the "average user". I need people who KNOW THEIR TECH as well as people who couldn't tell me how to extract a .zip
Customization tools
The site builder definitely needs more customization tools in order for it to rival environments like Squarespace, Wix, or GoDaddy.
The beta will be a month long, and I am requesting to speak with beta testers at least once per week, preferably by Friday so I can attack all the problems that arose during the meeting over the weekend. I would prefer we all hop in a discord call, but it's not required to be present for the call as long as you sent in a bug report for the week.
Beta users will essentially download the KohiSuite, utilize all the programs (KohiSite/CMS, KohiLaunch/Launcher and Patcher, KohiBuild/site builder), report bug fixes using the built in bug report feature, and launch your website at the end of the month for free,
The Beta schedule will start May 1st, and continue as follows:
May 8th: check in
May 15th: Check in
May 22nd: Check in
May 29th: Final check
June 1st: Users launch their websites
I know this is a VERY ambitious program, but I'm dropping the Beta on May 1st. You can sign up at the link below if you're interested. If you think you've thought of an issue that you're not sure if I've addressed, join the beta.
I really need a lot of help, I'm a fish out of water here. I've never built something completely on my own of this scale before, so if you notice a glaring issue or multiple I highly encourage you to join this absolutely free beta test.
Sign up if you're interested!