Creator sites
A home for everything you've published
Pass Muster builds writers a site of their own from the work they already put out: every story searchable, the best of it ranked, live shows as they happen, and subscribe buttons that go straight to you. It lives at yourname.passmustermedia.com and keeps itself up to date.
walterrhein.passmustermedia.com on a computer and a phone. It also works on tablets, in light and dark mode.
What a creator site gives you
Substack becomes one of your channels instead of your only front door.
Every post you've ever published, with search, topics, years and a Most liked button. Walter's goes back to 2023: 1,764 stories.
Most loved of all time, of the past year and of the past 90 days, so new readers start with your strongest pieces.
Substack, YouTube, Bluesky and Medium in one list. Watch, read or listen, filtered any way a reader likes.
Substack Live and YouTube Live, including guest spots on other people's streams, with a Live now button at the top.
Every subscribe button opens your own Substack. Links are tagged, so your Substack stats show what the site sends you.
A real page for every story, readable by Google, on an address that is yours alone.
How we built Walter's
Walter Rhein writes I'd Rather Be Writing and Rise Together, with about 2,500 posts since 2023. Here is what we did.
- Started from his Substack handleFrom there we found his publications, Bluesky, YouTube, Medium and Facebook. An account is only added with proof it's his: it's listed on his own profile, linked from his own publication, or its bio links back. Never a guess from a name.
- Read his whole public archiveAll 2,515 public posts, with likes, comments and topics, in about 130 requests to Substack.
- Folded the repeats751 of those posts were another version of a piece: a voiceover posted weeks later, or the audio and video of the same show. Each piece now shows once, with a Listen or Watch link.
- Cleaned up the topicsTopics typed by hand drift ("culture", "Culture"). Each one now has one spelling, in title case.
- Designed two viewsThe full site for a first visit, and a compact list for regular readers who want the newest thing fast.
- Made it update itselfWhile someone has the site open it checks for new posts every 3 minutes, YouTube every 10 and live shows every minute. Every night it refreshes likes and logs his public follower and subscriber numbers.
- Gave him his own addresswalterrhein.passmustermedia.com. His earlier address on passmustermedia.com forwards there.
Building it also turned up a change Substack made to its archive on about November 5, 2026 that had quietly stopped other readers from loading posts. We fixed that for Pass Muster the same day.
What it's built with
Simple, standard pieces that any web developer can read.
- The sitePlain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No framework, nothing to install.
- The dataYour public posts, likes and topics as small data files, rebuilt from your public archive.
- The builderA handful of short Node.js scripts: find your accounts, read your archive, log your numbers, build the site.
- HostingCloudflare: fast everywhere, with a secure address for each creator.
- Live updatesPass Muster's own server checks Substack, YouTube and live shows, so your site stays current between builds.
- Only public dataNo logins to your accounts, no passwords, nothing you haven't already published.
Can you own it?
Yes, at the level that suits you.
Point a domain you own, like yourname.com, at your site. We keep it running; the address and its Google Search Console data are yours.
About an hour of setup. No upkeep for you.
Take the built site and host it free on Cloudflare, Netlify or GitHub Pages under your domain. It looks the same; the archive updates when the build is run again, and live updates still come from Pass Muster.
A few hours with a little help.
The build scripts too, run nightly on your own computer or a free scheduled service, plus your own copy of the live-update server, or a site without live updates.
A day or two of developer time, plus upkeep when Substack changes.
How we treat your work
- Every link goes to the original. We don't copy your posts onto our site; readers read them where you published them.
- Every subscription goes straight to you. We never sit between you and your readers.
- Only accounts we can prove are yours. Nothing is attached on a name match.
- No stores or donation pages unless you ask. The site is about your writing.
Want a site like this?
Send us your Substack address. We'll build a first version from your public work so you can see it before deciding anything.