Carya Journal

Notes on making things, on how Carya is made, and honest comparisons with the tools people ask us about.

Issue 1October 2026

One page, one job

Before you pick a template, decide the one thing a visitor should do when they land.

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Craft notes for people who make and sell things: pages, prices, photos and words.

A price on the page saves you a pile of how-much messages, and tells a buyer you're ready to sell.

You don't need a studio to photograph what you make. A window, a plain surface and a little patience do most of it.

Honest comparisons with the tools people ask us about.

Short answer: no. Carrd makes beautiful one-page sites. Carya is a place for your creations: what you make, write and sell, on pages you own.

Linktree is a list of links. Carya is the place those links lead to.

Gumroad is a store. Carya is your page, with a store in it.

Substack is for writing. Carya treats writing as one part of what you make.

Squarespace builds websites. Carya builds pages for one person’s work, fast.

Stan is a creator store for social. Carya is a creator page that you own end to end.

How Carya is made, and why it works the way it does.

When you publish, Carya turns your blocks into a static page of HTML and CSS. Nothing has to start up before your visitors can read it.

The nasi uduk, the sambal jar and the beat tape around this site are painted by small programs a person can read, never by an image model.