Your website. Way cheaper than a conventional hosting provider, or WordPress plugins.
ForgeCMS is a lean, open-source CMS — no database, no plugin jungle, no subscription trap. We can build your site for you, or you build it yourself.
🎉 The first 1000 sign-ups get everything free for a year.
Two ways to get your website
We build it for you
Just like we already do for real communities and businesses — Ubuntu Pirates, Art of Touch and others run on ForgeCMS today.
€130 / hour
Small projects are often done in a single hour.
Request a quoteSee how it works →Coming soon
You build it yourself
PromptPanel lets you edit your site just by describing what you want — using your own AI key (bring your own key), so there's no AI markup on top.
Free for the first 1000
One year, everything included.
Reserve my free spotLearn how in the workshop →Simple, readable markup
ForgeCMS pages are written in SML — no HTML, no CSS, no JavaScript required. You can read it in seconds. And AI can write it just as easily.
Page {
title: "My Bakery"
Heading { level: "1" text: "Fresh bread, every morning" }
Text { value: "Family-owned bakery in Wittenberg. Stone oven, no additives." }
Cards {
Card { title: "Sourdough" text: "Baked daily from a 12-year-old starter." }
Card { title: "Opening hours" text: "Tue–Sat, 7:00–13:00" }
}
Link { href: "mailto:hallo@meinebaeckerei.de" text: "Get in touch" }
}Free basic usage
Business-card site
One page, live in minutes.
Your own domain
No forgecms.info subdomain required.
PromptPanel (BYOK)
Edit by prompt, with your own AI key.
Visual preview
See changes before they go live.
Why not just use a conventional hosting provider or WordPress?
| ForgeCMS | Conventional hosting providers | WordPress + plugins | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free core + one-time modules | Monthly subscription | Hosting + plugin subscriptions add up |
| Database | None — content is Markdown on Codeberg | Proprietary, locked in | MySQL — needs maintenance & backups |
| Security | Nothing to hack — static content | Vendor-managed | Constant plugin vulnerabilities |
| Editing | By prompt, with your own AI key — pay only what you use | Manual edits — no AI included | Needs a plugin for AI — another subscription |
| Lock-in | None — it's your repo, your content | Locked to the platform | Locked to your host & plugins |
Paid modules
One-time license. Minor updates included. No subscription.
| Module | Price | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Contact form | €19–29 | Simple, low barrier |
| StripePay | €39–49 | Required for anything paid — kept deliberately cheap |
| Shop | €149–199 | Complex — you earn money directly with it |
| Online course | €99–149 | Learning-platform logic, video, progress tracking |
| Feature request | €29–39 | Community feature, nice-to-have |
€380 €299 bundle — all modules together.
Note: the modules above are planned but not yet built — they'll only be developed once there are concrete customer requests for them. There's currently no active development on them. The one exception is the Feature Request module, which I am building since it's useful in almost every project — mine and my clients' alike.
Why CrowdWare
We build ForgeCMS as free, open-source software. What we charge for is our time and hosting — and if we ever make a profit, it isn't paid out to individuals. It goes into UBUNTU land projects that protect land from speculation and give people a place to live for free.
Ready for a website without the headache?
No obligation. We reply personally, usually within a day.