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How Goose works

Worked out, not written.

Somebody typed your website months ago, and it has been quietly going wrong ever since: a price, a date, a show that closed. Goose keeps your facts instead of your pages, and builds each page from them the moment it is opened — which is why a Goose site is still right on the night it matters.

One site, free for good. No card. We email you a link — nothing to remember.

You enter the facts once

Put in the dates, the prices and how many seats. Goose builds the page from those every time somebody opens it, so it is right at four in the afternoon and right again at half past seven. Nothing on your site waits for you to remember it.

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A production page at curtain time
The technical bit, if you want it

Each of the five templates builds its pages from the site's own rows at request time, and tells the cache the minute the page next changes rather than expiring on a guess.

It loads fast, wherever your visitors are

Your site sits in Cloudflare's data centres around the world, and a visitor is served from the nearest one. There is no single machine holding it up, so there is nothing to crash on opening night — the busiest hour of your year.

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Open any Goose site from anywhere and time it
The technical bit, if you want it

Cloudflare Workers and Pages, with the content database and the media store both at the edge, and images resized as they are asked for.

Nothing is watching your visitors

No ad trackers and no third-party scripts. Even the lettering is served by Goose rather than borrowed from a font network, so nobody outside is told who came to your page. Visitor counts are yours, off unless you turn them on, and counted without cookies.

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Open any Goose site and see what else the page loads
The technical bit, if you want it

A content security policy naming every permitted source, typefaces served from our own domain rather than a font network, and visitor counts proxied through the site's own address.

The money goes to your account, not ours

A ticket, a booking or a donation is charged on your own Stripe account. The sale is yours: your name on the buyer's statement, your money, and refunds out of your balance. Goose takes nothing. Stripe still charges its own card-processing fee, at its published rates.

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The charge on a buyer's statement carries your business name, not ours
The technical bit, if you want it

Stripe Connect direct charges on the site owner's own account. At 0% there is no platform fee in the call at all.

You can take it all with you

Your subscribers, your orders, your words and pictures: download them as spreadsheets, or the whole site as one file, on every plan including the free one. A site can change hands with its audience attached. Delete it and it is gone from our systems, after we have offered you the download first.

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Download your subscriber list on the Free plan, today, before you have paid anything
The technical bit, if you want it

Export endpoints for every table, a two-phase ownership transfer, and a delete that clears both databases.

People find you, and so do AI assistants

Goose labels what is on your pages — this is a play, on this date, at this price — so a search engine or an assistant reads a fact instead of guessing at a paragraph. Goose also counts which assistants came to read you, and says plainly that a visit is a visit: nobody can prove an assistant quoted you, so we never claim it did.

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Paste a Goose page into an assistant and ask it what is on
The technical bit, if you want it

schema.org JSON-LD on every page by default, answer pages built from the site's own facts, and a log of AI crawler visits and referrals.

Are you on Goose yet?

Bring your domain, your list and your members, on your own schedule.

One site, free for good. No card. We email you a link — nothing to remember.