The Cat Store Was the Proof. Now We Are Giving the Architecture Away.
NotACatStore is absurd on purpose: a weekly cat paper, a storefront, a checkout path, and house ads that tell the truth. Under the joke is the serious part.
NotACatStore is absurd on purpose: a weekly cat paper, a storefront, a checkout path, and house ads that tell the truth. Under the joke is the serious part. A website can be owned, portable, and crawlable without becoming a monthly platform dependency. The Not A Template Contest gives that structure to ten businesses and one ecommerce shop.
The fake cat store proved the stack in public: static pages, a real catalog, cart behavior, checkout creation, and the plain-file surface that can be read without renting a builder account. The store is still test-card-only for live payments, and that honesty matters. What it proves is that the storefront itself does not have to be rented.
Discnxt will build ten standard business websites and one owned ecommerce starter site at no setup cost. The site files are yours. The structure is crawlable. The hosting term is measured in years, not monthly rent. We do not add tracking pixels, and we do not take a platform percentage from sales.
Entry is by email. No social account is required, and social engagement is not an entry condition. The canonical contest page is on the owned web, where it belongs.
Enter The Not A Template Contest.
Read the rules and enter by email