A one-person shop building tools for people who want to own their slice of the internet.
RunCabin sets up a payment-enabled shop for you. Give us a domain name and we'll deploy a Stripe-connected store, host it, secure it, configure DNS, and forward your email. Your shop is live and ready to take payments.
It won't have every feature Shopify has — but you can build any feature exactly the way you want it. You're not renting capabilities, you're building them. RunCabin is a freeform mercantile platform that grows with your business.
And if it stops working for you? No problem. Host it yourself and keep the code.
Your store ships with the full source code in a GitHub repo. You can modify it yourself, hire a developer, or ask Ryan directly. Ryan is available for customization work — email hello@runcabin.com to discuss.
RunCabin is built and operated by Ryan Mergen, a senior software developer based in Baltimore, MD. We got tired of watching small businesses hand 30% of their revenue to platform fees — so we built something better.
RunCabin is a product of CodePoetics, a small software studio focused on practical tools for independent businesses.
Being small is a feature, not a bug. When you email hello@runcabin.com, you're talking to the person who built the thing.
We believe in a few things that are non-negotiable:
Have a question, a concern, or just want to talk through whether RunCabin is right for you? Email hello@runcabin.com. We'll get back to you within one business day.