Simple.ink

What Simple.ink is

Simple.ink is a website builder and form tool built around Notion. You write and organize content in Notion, paste the link into Simple.ink, and the company builds and hosts the website for you. It also sells Simple Notion Forms, a separate product that embeds forms in a Notion page and collects the answers in another Notion page. The reader it fits is a creator, a freelancer or a small team that already lives in Notion and wants a public site without learning a second editor. The company describes itself on its About page as "a PreviewX company" and as "bootstrapped and fiercely independent," funded by customer revenue with "no VCs, no investors."

What you build and how

The editor is Notion itself. There is no separate canvas in Simple.ink: the Notion page is the content, and Simple.ink is the publishing layer on top of it. The company stresses that hosting is included. In its words, "Once your website is built with Simple.ink, it's also hosted by us, so you won't have to worry about anything else." The pricing page lists the worries it takes off your plate: "traffic spikes, hacks, performance, etc." The home page adds that Notion hosting "comes with unlimited storage and bandwidth" and that your content "is automatically backed up too in Notion."

For a site you can start from the guides, which are written for beginners and include walkthroughs for a simple website, a one-page website, an agency website, an architecture firm website, a game website for selling a game, a restaurant website and a church website. The product navigation also points to templates, live website examples, custom fonts and a section on Notion custom domains. The pricing page lists "custom styling: navbars, custom fonts" among what you can do beyond the basics, and the home page says a custom domain is a premium feature of the paid plans.

The data layer is Notion, and the forms product is where that becomes concrete. Simple Notion Forms is introduced with a question, "What if you could create forms that collect answers directly in Notion?" Setup has 3 steps. First you create a form in Notion, and the answers will be collected in a Notion page that you choose. Second you go to the Simple.ink dashboard and make the connection between your Notion form and Simple.ink's systems, which the page describes as taking about a minute, a few clicks and no coding. Third you type "/embed" in Notion and paste the link the dashboard gives you, and the form is embedded on your page. The forms page describes the result as "perfectly optimized, simple forms" that you paste in and "it... just works." It also says one subscription lets you and your whole team use the forms, so you do not buy a seat per person.

Beyond sites and forms, the company points to extras around Notion. The home page advertises "60+ Integrations for Notion Websites," described as powerups you can add once the site is done. Simple Notion Icons offers "5,000 options" for people tired of emojis as page icons, and a Notion App Store collects embeds and widgets. The company also publishes free resources, a podcast, a blog, an affiliate program and comparison pages for other tools that publish Notion pages as sites. Support runs through a live chat link, and logging in works by emailing yourself a login link rather than setting a password.

The finished site is an ordinary public website that visitors open in a browser. Because Notion remains the editor, someone on your team who can edit a Notion page can update the live site, and the company's own wording suggests the point is that you "take care of doing what you like" while Simple.ink handles hosting.

What the pages say about plans and limits

The pricing page opens with a free plan called Personal. It lists "3 Free Sites" at "$0" and says "You can stick to this forever." The company repeats the point across its pages: "Everybody starts on a free plan, and you can stick to it forever," with "no credit card needed" and an "unlimited free version." The free plan includes a fast-loading hosted website and, in the company's words, "unlimited pages per website." It carries "limited SEO," and "for maximum SEO potential (i.e. ability to get to top positions), you will need our paid plan." The pricing page also shows a toggle between monthly and yearly billing, with the yearly option labeled "Save 30%." The free-plan section gives no paid-plan price, so check the pricing page for current figures.

One detail matters for budgeting. The free plan "works with Notion's free plan": "You won't need to pay for Notion. You can build a website regardless of whether you're on Notion's free plan." The company also has a short explainer asking whether Notion is free and what plan a reader needs, a sign that some readers are still deciding how much to spend on Notion itself.

Simple Notion Forms has its own pricing page. The forms page says you can try creating a form with "no card required" and "no time limit." The pages do not state a form or response limit, a compliance certification, an open-source license or a code export option.

Who it suits and who it does not

Simple.ink suits solo creators, consultants and small teams who already keep their content in Notion. A person who runs a portfolio, a restaurant page or a small agency site from Notion can publish it with little setup, and the free plan of 3 sites is enough to try the idea before paying. A team that wants form answers to land in a Notion database it already reads will find the forms product aimed squarely at that job.

It suits less well a team that wants its own visual layout tool, a built-in database or a store. Editing happens in Notion, so the design controls are the ones Simple.ink exposes on top of it, and the pages do not describe an ecommerce or app-building feature. The free plan's limited SEO means a site that depends on search traffic should plan on a paid plan. A business that does not use Notion would have to adopt it first, which is a real cost.