Claude creates the website. Curios powers the business behind it.

Claude helps you design and build a completely custom website just by describing what you want. Curios turns that website into a real, globally compliant direct sales store the moment it goes live.

Netlify gives your website a permanent, professional home online, for free. Together, these three tools let you build, publish, and run a direct sales business without writing any code.

Create freely

Design any website you can imagine

No coding required

Edit your site by chatting with Claude

Completely custom, not template based

Total design freedom

Modern, responsive layouts

Claude helps write your copy

Fast, easy updates

Sell immediately

Out of the box commerce tools

Capture all email addresses

Digital content delivery

Tax handling

Fraud prevention

Customer support

Keep 100% of your sales

Print on demand integrations baked in

How the tools work together

What is Claude?

Claude is an AI assistant from Anthropic that can help you write, plan, and build. With a feature called Artifacts, Claude can create a complete, working website for you and show it to you live as you chat.

Instead of learning HTML, CSS, or hiring a developer, you describe the website you want in plain English. Claude builds it, and you refine it by continuing the conversation.

Why use Claude?

Recommended: create a Claude Project

For the best results, create a Claude Project and add your materials so Claude has everything it needs in one place. Gather:

What is Curios?

Curios is a direct sales platform built specifically for creators. It handles everything that happens after a reader decides to buy, including secure checkout, payments, digital content delivery, taxes, customer support, and more.

Think of Curios as your commerce engine. It stores your products, processes payments, delivers digital content, manages customer support, and powers the checkout experience your website links to.

Why use Curios?

Important note

Every product you publish on Curios receives its own Direct Checkout Link. Later, when building your website, you will connect each Buy button to the appropriate checkout link.

By the end of this step, your books are ready to sell, even before your website is finished.

Now it is time to build your website. This is where Claude shines. You describe the website you want, and Claude builds a complete, working version you can see right away inside an Artifact.

You do not need to know any code. You simply chat with Claude, review what it creates, and ask for changes until the website looks exactly how you want.

What to gather before you begin

Review the first version

Claude will build a live preview inside an Artifact. Take a moment to review:

Continue refining

Claude created a first version. Now refine it by asking for changes. Try prompts like:

Give Claude your real content

When the design looks right, replace the placeholder content with your real information:

Once your website layout is complete, connect the Buy buttons. You do not need to edit any code. Copy the Direct Checkout Link for each product from Curios, then ask Claude to connect each button.

Test the website in Claude

Before you publish, ask Claude to review the site with you.

Download your website

When everything looks right, ask Claude to package the website so you can publish it.

Claude creates your website, but it does not provide a permanent home for it on the internet. To give your website a permanent home online, you publish it with a hosting service. Netlify is a free, reliable option that lets you publish your site in minutes.

Netlify Drop lets you publish a website by dragging and dropping your website folder. There are no terminal commands and no complicated setup.

How everything connects

Create a Netlify account

Upload your website

Test the published website

A custom domain like yourauthorwebsite.com makes your website look professional and easy to remember. You can buy a domain from a domain registrar and connect it to your Netlify site.

How to update your site later

Congratulations. You now have everything you need to sell directly.

What is next?

You now have a professional website that you own, powered by Curios and ready to sell directly to readers.

From here, your focus shifts to growth. Drive readers to your website through your marketing efforts, continue adding new books and landing pages, build email funnels, create bundles, and experiment with new ways to engage your audience.

Your site will capture the contact information of every reader, so your future marketing and awareness efforts will be much easier.

How everything works together

Your website is yours.

You control your branding, design, domain, and the relationship with your readers. Curios powers the commerce behind every Buy button.

That means you can launch a professional direct sales website without becoming a web developer or an ecommerce expert, while Curios handles the operational work that comes with selling books online.

Better tools, for less

Building a professional direct sales website does not have to mean stitching together multiple subscriptions. With Claude, Netlify, and Curios, you get an AI assistant that builds your website, free hosting, and a commerce platform designed for creators. The examples below compare a typical Claude, Netlify, and Curios setup with a common Shopify stack.

Basic direct sales website

For authors selling print and digital books on their first direct sales website.

Partner apps refer to the additional Shopify apps many stores add for digital downloads, tax handling, and email capture. Actual costs vary depending on the apps you choose.

Beyond the monthly cost

The biggest advantage is not just the lower monthly price. It is the simplicity. With Claude, Netlify, and Curios, you can:

Instead of piecing together multiple ecommerce tools and integrations, you can focus on creating while Claude, Netlify, and Curios handle the technical work behind the scenes.