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.
1.5.1 (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