Manu's little studio
No technical knowledge needed. You only describe in words what you want to see, and Claude creates it. This website is my guide and helper to get you going.
No GitHub account yet? You can create one on the way, for free. It is where everything you create will be kept. The studio is for people Manu has invited: the easiest way in is the button in his email.
Read this first
Hi dearest ones! This little brochure explains everything you need to know to start creating your own business cards, flyers, brochures, catalogues or even a website. After that, there are just two quick setup steps below, and I'll guide you through them. Then you're ready to go.
You can always find the guide again under "Guide" in the menu.
Your space is ready. From now on everything happens in the chat below. You can fold these steps away: you find them again under "Get set up" in the menu.
No Cloudflare account yet? Create a free one. Afterwards Cloudflare shows its own start page: nothing more to do there, just come back to this page.
Press Deploy to Cloudflare. On Cloudflare's page, press New GitHub connection first and allow it (choose All repositories if GitHub asks). Cloudflare then shows a page called Make something new or Select a repository. That's normal: don't choose anything there, close that tab and come back to this page.
Press Deploy to Cloudflare again. Now you see Set up your application with your GitHub account already filled in. Tick Create private Git repository, give your site a name in Project name (small letters and dashes, for example design-of-tilia), leave everything else as it is and press Deploy. Cloudflare now builds your site; after about a minute you see a green tick. Press Visit at the top right: your new site opens with the words Coming soon. Press Connect it to Vagabond Studio there, and you land back here with step 1 done.
Cloudflare takes my starter site (a public template on GitHub with the comment function, the design switcher, "My creations" and the lock for your developer site) and makes your own copy of it: a new repository in your GitHub account. It creates a small storage for your comments, puts the site online at your free address, and connects the two, so that every new version saved in your repository is published automatically within a minute or two.
On GitHub, open the template and press "Use this template" to make your own copy. In Cloudflare, go to Workers & Pages, Create, Import a repository, and choose your copy. In Storage, KV, create a namespace and add it to your Worker as a binding named COMMENTS. Your own Claude can walk you through every click.
Press the button, choose Only select repositories, pick the repository Cloudflare just made, and press Install. Then come back here and press Check again.
Done: Claude can save in
The Vagabond Studio App may read and write files in that one repository, and nothing else in your GitHub. That is how Claude saves your creations from this website, and how a new picture is saved when you swap one. Every save is a new version in your time machine, so nothing is ever lost. You can take the permission back at any time: on GitHub, Settings, Applications, Vagabond Studio App, Uninstall.
Without this permission, this website can't save for you. You can still work on your repository with your own Claude (Cowork with GitHub connected), exactly the way the guide above describes.
Not needed to start: your free Cloudflare address works. When you want one, type the name you'd like and see which endings are free.
At Cloudflare (Domain Registration, Register Domains): cost price and no DNS records to copy, but no .se, .eu or .de. Then in Cloudflare open your site (Workers & Pages), Settings, Domains & Routes, Add, Custom domain, and type your domain.
Elsewhere (Oderland, Loopia, one.com, GoDaddy, Namecheap, Porkbun and many more): buy it there. In Cloudflare press "Add a domain", type it, and choose the Free plan; Cloudflare shows you two nameserver addresses. Paste them into the domain's settings at your seller (often called "Nameservers" or "DNS servers"). After a few hours Cloudflare says the domain is active; then add it to your site as above.
If you already own a domain that is used for email, tell Claude or Manu first, so the email keeps working.
Claude can make mistakes: check facts, prices and names before you print or publish. Never paste passwords or codes into the chat.
Manu's little guide and helper website. It shows how simple it is to create flyers, posters, brochures, catalogues, business cards and websites with Claude: no technical knowledge needed, only the ability to describe in words what you want to see. You can try it right here, with Claude paid from Manu's account.
Because that is where everything you create is kept, with every earlier version (a time machine), and it is yours. You need it anyway as soon as you create a website. It is free. Signing in here with GitHub only shares your username, name and picture with this website.
In the Claude app, the chat talks with you; Cowork can also DO things: work with files and folders on your computer, your Google Drive and email once you connect them, search the web, and even click and type on websites for you. Cowork is included in the paid plans (Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise).
A finished piece of work Claude makes next to the conversation: a poster, a page, a chart, a little app. It opens in a side panel, where you can comment on any part of it and let Claude change it, then download, print or share it.
The language every web page is written in: plain text with labels like "this is a heading" or "this is a picture". CSS decides the fonts, colours and layout. Claude writes both; you only see the finished page.
Describe it in the chat, as in a conversation. If you're unsure, ask for 5 different ideas first. Claude saves it to your developer site; open it with "My site", comment on anything, and tell Claude in the chat when you're done. Repeat until you're happy, then print it, save it as a PDF, or publish it.
Yes. Claude can search the web from this chat, for example to see what similar businesses do. It tells you briefly what it found and where.
In the chat, press the picture button next to the text box. Or, on your developer site, turn the comment function on, tap a picture and choose "Replace this picture": that swaps it without asking Claude.
On your developer site, open the creation and press the small menu button under the comment button: there you find "Print" and "Save as PDF". If you want a print shop to print it: print shops usually want the design to run about 3 mm past the edge of the paper, so that no thin white line remains after cutting (this extra edge is called "bleed"). Ask Claude for a "print-ready PDF with 3 mm bleed", and ask the shop what else they need.
The developer site is your workshop: only you can open it, from "My site" in the menu, and everything Claude makes appears there first. The live site is open to everyone and shows only what you have published with the "Publish" button.
It is locked. It only opens through "My site" here, which gives your browser a personal pass for 30 days. Anyone else who tries the address sees a closed door.
The pages (Claude makes them), a place for the files with every version (GitHub), a server that shows them to the world (Cloudflare), and an address: the free Cloudflare one, or your own domain. On this website, the setup steps above the chat create all of this for you. With your own Claude, you'd also have a folder on your computer.
A cloud storage for the files of your website that remembers every version, like a time machine. You can always go back. It is free, and it belongs to you.
A server is a computer that is on day and night and shows your website to anyone, anywhere. Cloudflare has servers all over the world and hosts sites like yours for free. Every new version saved in your GitHub is put online by Cloudflare automatically.
Cloudflare copies Manu's starter site into a new repository in your GitHub, creates a small storage for your comments, puts the site online at a free address, and from then on publishes every new version by itself. You can also do each of these steps by hand; the setup step explains how.
Reading and writing files in that one repository, nothing else. You can take it back any time in your GitHub settings (Applications).
A commit is a snapshot: the current state of your files saved as a new version, with a short note. A push uploads the new snapshots to GitHub, which is when Cloudflare sees them and updates your site. On this website, Claude saves straight into GitHub, so both happen in one go.
Not to start: your site has a free Cloudflare address. Later you can buy one at many places, for example Oderland, Loopia, one.com, GoDaddy, Namecheap or Porkbun, or at Cloudflare itself. Cloudflare sells at cost price and connecting is a few clicks, but it has no .se, .eu or .de. Step 3 of the setup helps you check names and connect it.
None that I'd recommend for a business. Very cheap offers are often for the first year only, so compare the renewal price too. Your free Cloudflare address is the free option.
DNS is the internet's address book: it tells browsers which server has your website. HTTPS is the padlock that keeps the connection private; Cloudflare gives it to you for free. A sitemap is a list of your pages for Google; Claude makes it with your website.
Not by itself. Cloudflare can forward addresses like hello@yourdomain.com to your normal inbox for free. To send from that address too, you need an email service, often sold where you buy the domain.
GitHub and Cloudflare are free, widely used, well known to Claude, and everything stays yours and portable. Astro is a free tool for bigger websites (Manu's vagabondhaven.com uses it). Here we start with plain pages, which is all a small website needs; Claude can move a growing site to Astro.
Your use of Claude here is paid from Manu's account. You see what you have used at the top of the page and under Usage, in euros, with a small note in the chat every 5 €, and you can pay Manu back whenever it suits you. There is no limit.
Free (everyday questions and artifacts, no Cowork), Pro 20 US dollars a month or 17 a month paid yearly (with Cowork), Max from 100 US dollars a month (5 or 20 times Pro's use). Prices as on Claude's website in October 2026; with VAT in kronor or euros they can differ.
Nothing for a website like ours. GitHub's free plan has no limit on private repositories. On Cloudflare, visits to your pages are free and unlimited, the server functions (like the contact form) are free up to 100,000 visits a day, and a site can have up to 100 domains (Cloudflare's own figures, October 2026).
You do. The files are in your own GitHub and the site runs on your own Cloudflare account. If this helper website ever disappears, your site keeps working, and you can keep working on it with any Claude.
Press Help at the bottom right of the page: ask in any language and add a screenshot. If Help can't solve it, one tap sends it to Manu.