Create Your Website

Release notes

Please see below for Solo updates. If you have any feedback, feature requests or more, please email us at support@soloist.ai. If you’re interested in what is coming next, please see here.

1.7.1 (Apr 18, 2025)

  • Fixed a bug with the Article section when you add more than one Article section to your website
  • Fixed a bug where transactional emails (e.g. Contact, Login Code) would not be delivered when you are unsubscribed from the Solo newsletter
  • Fixed a bug with Google one-tap sign-in
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes

1.7 (Apr 10, 2025)

  • Added a new FAQ sidebar layout
  • Added a new Article section for long-form text
  • Added support for custom code in the <head> for websites with a custom domain
  • Added Google Business Profile in the social media picker available in the Header and Footer
  • Updated section color selector for easier preview
  • Support for YouTube Shorts in the Video section
  • Rich-text editor better handles multiple spaces and new lines between paragraphs
  • Clicking the logo in the Footer of your published website will now scroll the site to the top
  • Custom domain websites now have a sitemap.xml page to improve Google SEO
  • Added a new tool to generate Google Ads copy available on the Solo homepage
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes and performance improvements

1.6.1 (Mar 12, 2025)

  • Fixed alignment of social media icons in team section
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes

1.6 (Mar 6, 2025)

  • Increased maximum websites allowed per user from 3 to 5
  • Updated default zoom level for maps in the Contact section
  • Increased maximum number of services in the Services section and the maximum number of FAQ questions in the FAQ section to 24
  • Increased maximum number of Video sections that can be added to 3
  • Added new option to “Create your Website with a Link” so you can import your existing website data. Try from the footer of the Solo homepage
  • Added a new Logo Grid section to feature partners, customers or other
  • Updated Contact section with a rich text field to link additional phone numbers, email addresses, business hours, physical address or other text
  • Support to transfer ownership of your website to another user
  • Fixed rich-text editor to handle multiple paragraph spaces
  • Support for Google GTM- (tag manager) tags along with existing Google Analytics GA- tags
  • Added Facebook Messenger and Telegram social media support
  • New editing features to add social media links to team members featured in the Team Section
  • Fixed a bug with Google Search Console (GSC) for users who have set up GSC with their custom domain
  • Support for deleting your user account and all websites via Account Settings instead of sending a customer support request
  • Fixed a bug related to custom domain websites and non-existent pages
  • Lots of other small bug fixes and improvements including accessibility fixes

1.5.1 (Feb 4, 2025)

  • Improved Embed section handling of different embed types
  • Updated cookie banner visual style
  • Other miscellaneous bug fixes

1.5 (Jan 27, 2025)

  • Export CSV of all Contact Form and Newsletter submissions
  • Added Share button to share your website via a link or on social networks
  • New Code Embed section to embed custom audio, video or other applications
  • Support for mobile onboarding
  • Added new Google Safe URL detection when creating links on your site
  • Link to Text Banner, Image Banner and Code Embed sections
  • Added a ‘Reject’ button on the cookie banner, if enabled
  • See mobile and desktop preview of your website
  • Other general bug fixes and updates

1.4 (Dec 6, 2024)

  • Invite up to 5 editors for each of your websites
  • Google Analytics (GA) correctly loads after the user has accepted the cookie banner when enabled
  • New custom Google Analytics events for all buttons on your website when you have connected GA
  • Minor improvements to enhance the SEO of your website including increasing the maximum website title character length
  • Added WhatsApp and Bluesky social media icon support
  • Added a new “medium size” option for the button in the Intro section
  • Increased maximum allowed services to in the Services section to 12
  • Added a dedicated new “pricing” field for each service in the Services section
  • Gallery section images now correctly observe cropping in carousel layout
  • Clicking on images in carousel layout in the Gallery section will now open the full screen viewer
  • Adding team members in the Team section no longer requires a name
  • Added a new subhead text field to the Text Banner section
  • Support for reordering links in the Header section
  • Logo size in the Footer section can be independently adjusted from the Header section
  • Minor updates to themes to improve for accessibility

1.3.1 (Nov 13, 2024)

  • Fixed a bug where customer Google Analytics may not fail for their published Solo websites

1.3 (Oct 24, 2024)

  • Added Github as a new social media link option
  • New Fit vs Fill for images for the Intro and Text Banner sections
  • Two new font pairs
  • Added mobile preview
  • Increased max FAQ to 12 questions and team size to 12 persons
  • Checkmark support for RTF input fields
  • Improved readability of captions in the image carousel
  • Improved image resolution for images on your published website
  • Added new button solid vs outlined styles
  • Add custom questions to the Contact Form
  • New Newsletter section so customers can sign-up to a mailing list
  • New onboarding pages to start with Yelp, Facebook or Thumbtack links
  • Apply images shapes to your images featured in the Intro and Text Banner sections
  • Added a new transition when navigating to an in-page link
  • New illustrative modal when adding new sections to your website
  • Added visible character counts on all fields
  • Fixed bug with Google Analytics only loading after the user has accepted the cookie banner if the cookie banner is enabled
  • Numerous other small bugs and performance fixes

1.2 (Sep 6, 2024)

  • All RTF (rich text) input fields support undo and redo
  • Embedded YouTube videos in the video section support custom URL parameters such as video start time
  • New FAQ section for questions and answers
  • New Team section to feature team members with a headshot and bio
  • Improved scraping of Facebook, Instagram and Thumbtack pages for generating your Solo website
  • Support for still and animated .gif images and .webp images
  • Added Thumbtack as a new social media icon that can be included in the Header or Footer
  • New and improved Business Name Creator and Business Idea Creator tools
  • New business directory accessible from the homepage to browse Solo benefits by business vertical
  • Fixed a bug when attempting to reconnect a domain that failed to connect initially
  • Fixed a bug where website generation failed when there were not enough relevant images
  • Increased character limit for text in the Intro section
  • Lots of small bugs and performance fixes

1.1 (Jul 22, 2024)

  • New video section to embed YouTube or other on your website
  • New font choices in Theme Settings optimized for different languages
  • Contact form now supports Japanese and Korean
  • Upload your own favicon (browser icon) for your website
  • A dividing line can now be enabled below each section to provide a unique visual feel
  • Many small bug fixes and other UI updates

1.0 (Jun 11, 2024)

  • Added a new fixed header option so you can have the Navigation bar always show as you scroll
  • Added support for a “Cookie Banner” which you can enable via Settings
  • You can now add up to 3 Text Banner and Image Banner sections
  • Added Threads as a new social media type
  • Option to now add an image to your Text Banner sections
  • Improved custom domain connection handling
  • Multiple visual UI improvements
  • Squashed a lot of small bugs including a general site speed-up
  • Slowed down transition time for gallery photos in carousel
  • Added multiple new animations to published sites giving it a more polished feel
  • Increased custom image upload cap to 30
  • New “centered” layout option for Footer text and social media icons
  • Increased character limit for the Services section items
  • Added Italian and German as new language options for the Contact Form labels

0.93 (May 6, 2024)

  • Increased character limit for the Text Banner section
  • Fixed a bug related to connecting custom domains

0.92 (Apr 29, 2024)

  • Support for connecting a custom domain to Solo for free
  • Purchase a new discounted custom domain via Solo
  • Minor bug fixes

0.91 (Apr 11, 2024)

  • Added support for custom links in the footer of your website
  • New websites generate substantially faster
  • Lots and lots of visual and minor bug fixes

0.9 (Mar 1, 2024)

  • Rich text support in the Intro, Services and Text Banner sections. You can now add links, bullets, bold or otherwise customize the text in most sections of your site
  • New dark color themes per significant user request
  • Websites have been expanded to full width and simply look prettier
  • Improved page speed and less flickers
  • Image editor now available in the Services section
  • Select Spanish or French as the default language for the Contact form
  • Support for multiple image upload
  • Text banner and Services section now allow you to add buttons
  • Heading section links can now properly link to phone numbers
  • Scale the size of your custom logo
  • Squashed numerous other little bugs

0.8 (Jan 30, 2024)

  • Support for uploading your own images. JPG, GIF, PNG supported. 25 image limit per site. 15MB limit per image
  • Support for uploading a custom logo image
  • Connect a Google Analytics account for tracking website visitors
  • Added ability to zoom and crop images for the Intro and Services sections of the site
  • Fixed some color palette bugs
  • Added a What’s New link to the Account menu
  • Added support for custom header navigation links. Add external or in-page links
  • Added Solo sitemap support for improved Google SEO
  • Fixed numerous other smaller bugs

0.71 (Dec 22, 2023)

  • Increased character limit for services description text
  • Fixed an issue with the Alfa Slab One font not rendering properly
  • Added a new warning if you leave the website editor without saving your changes
  • Added a new font selector for the Header Logo
  • Sped-up page load time for customer sites
  • Proper unfurling of website URLs for improved Google SEO
  • Numerous other small bug fixes

0.7 (Dec 13, 2023)

  • Added customer reviews section. Reviews extracted from provided Yelp or other URL and/or Solo will provide examples to be updated
  • Added scheduling section. Works with any scheduling URL (e.g. Calendly, Tidycal)
  • Added image and text banner sections
  • Numerous bug fixes and updated styles
  • Support for background images in the Intro section
  • Improved support for images at different aspect ratio
  • Support for image borders and different font weights
  • New layout options for your Gallery
  • Added business idea composer to suggest ideas
  • Location requests are now user initiated
  • Added option to display social icons in the header as well
  • More status detail when composing a new website
  • A new, shiny Solo website!

0.6 (Nov 1, 2023)

  • Squashed numerous bugs
  • Updated login method from magic link to OTP for security purposes
  • Added a new dedicated Theme section
  • Added new SEO options in the Settings section
  • Under-the-hood tweaks to make the published sites more SEO’able for Google
  • Updated visual design for font and color selection
  • Published sites now look good on mobile
  • More detailed status now shown when Solo is composing your website
  • Improved responsiveness for narrower desktop windows
  • Can now search Unsplash for other images to use on your website
  • Faster customer site load time