Slatesource is a platform for building and sharing structured pages, one slate at a time.
A place to build structured pages called slates, without writing any code.
A place to build structured pages called slates without writing any code. You pick the blocks you need, fill them in, and publish something that is readable by people and by machines.
Chips are the blocks a slate is made of. Info holds text, Gallery holds images, Map holds places, Checklist holds items to tick off. Each one knows how to format its own kind of content, so a page stays tidy however you arrange it.
Travel guides, recipe collections, portfolios, reading logs, event pages, product showcases. Anything that reads better as structured blocks than as one long wall of text.
A slate holds as many pages as you need, shown as tabs across the top. A one-page slate is fine, and so is a course with a page per module.
Every slate has a type, from Recipe and Course to Event and Podcast, and that type maps to schema.org. Search engines and language models read the structure instead of guessing at it.
Slatesource is built by Stéphane Bottin, a software engineer based in Switzerland, for creators who want to share what they know without touching code.
Yes. Publishing slates and building an audience costs nothing. Some chips and upgrades are bought in the shop with SC, the credit you earn on the platform.
From a sentence to a published page, with as much or as little help as you want.
Describe it in a sentence and a first draft gets built for you, banner included. It opens ready to edit, so you are correcting a page rather than facing an empty one.
Wizards are guided starters for a particular kind of slate. You answer a few questions and the pages come out shaped for that use.
Turn on edit mode and click any empty slot to add a chip. Changes save as you go, and the page you are editing stays a draft until you publish it.
Import chips takes a block of Chext and turns it into chips, or takes a prompt and generates them. Chips are added below the ones already on the page.
The Playground is a free space to try every chip type. Nothing is saved, it resets on every page load, and even paid chips are unlocked. No account needed.
Every account gets storage for the images and files across all of its slates. Settings shows how much of it you have used, and the shop sells more.
Point at a site and it gets rebuilt as slates, by hand, page by page. The finished slates land in your account for you to claim.
Every kind of block a page can hold, and the plain text format behind them.
Chips cover text, media, places, time, data and people. Info, Quote and Note for writing, Gallery and Audio for media, Map and Path for places, Timeline and Countdown for time, Poll and Census for asking readers something.
Each chip is half width or full width, and they flow into a grid. Drag them around, resize them, and the page stays readable on a phone without extra work.
Chext is the plain text format a slate can be written in. Each chip starts with a marker line like :QUOTE, and the lines under it are the content. Open any chip in the catalogue to see its syntax and a copyable example.
Most are yours from the start. A few are sold in the shop for SC, on their own or inside a pack, and the catalogue marks which ones.
What's new lists every chip that has shipped, newest first. The catalogue also has an In the works section for the ones being built.
Who can see a slate, how it travels, and what comes back.
A slate is Public, visible to everyone, or Private, visible to members only. You can also mark it NSFW for limited visibility, or publish it anonymously so it is hidden from your profile and authorship.
Mark a slate as a template and members can clone it for themselves. They get a private copy and become its author, and both slates keep a link back to where the copy came from.
The share sheet posts to Bluesky, Reddit, LinkedIn and Threads, or copies a link. Every channel gets its own tracked link, so you can see where visits come from.
In Settings, under Links, name the places you share. A place, not a web address: a newsletter, a Discord, a podcast. Each new slate then gets one link per place.
Analytics on a slate shows impressions over time and how each tracked link performed. Only you can see this.
Add .md to any slate URL for clean Markdown, or .chext for the source format. Language models and scripts get the content without the page around it.
How slates reach readers, and how readers keep the ones they like.
The home page deals seven cards, the same for every visitor that day. Turn them in any order to find slates, creators, chips and categories. At midnight UTC they are gone and a new seven drops for everyone.
One search covers slates, creators, categories and chips. Before you type anything it shows what is popular this week, what is rising and what is fresh.
Every slate sits in a category, and each category page shows what is inside it, what is most read, what is new, and who writes there.
Your profile collects your public slates, sorted by latest or most popular, next to your handle, your bio and the label you are carrying.
Follow a slate and it stays with you after the drop. Readers can also react to a single chip rather than the whole page, with Love, Applause, Fire, Insight or On point.
Pinned shows what each slate you pinned is doing right now, with the slates inside it underneath, and a Now chip gives each one a current status line.
Messages are direct conversations with the people behind the slates. Search anyone by username to start one, or write to a creator from their slate.
SC is the credit that unlocks chips and packs. Here are the ways to earn it without spending a cent.
Post a short video on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts or Bluesky that shows a slate of yours, and put the slate URL in the caption. The more views it pulls, the more SC lands in your balance.
1,000 SC is worth $1, and you can cash out from $100. Send your video link and the slate URL it features to stephane.bottin@slatesource.com. View counts are verified after 30 days.
Milestones track every step from your first slate to the Collective, and what each one pays out. Publishing, impressions, reactions, followers and daily draws all count towards them.
A Coins card turns up in Today's Seven about once a week. Claim it before the drop and the SC is yours.
Creators get a dashboard showing how their slates are travelling, who is arriving through their registration code, and what they have earned in commissions.
Referrals, contests, baseline submissions and Creator Collective slots are all on the way.
Chips, packs and upgrades, paid for with the SC you earn on Slatesource.
SC is the credit the platform runs on. You earn it through milestones, cards and videos, and you spend it in the shop. Your balance sits at the top of the shop.
Individual chips, packs that bundle several of them, themes, badges, feature unlocks, extra storage and wizards. Items go on discount from time to time.
SC can be topped up with money instead of earned. Nothing in the shop is needed to publish a slate or build an audience.
Keep your slates as files in a GitHub repository and let Slatesource build the pages.
Connect a repository and Slatesource reads the files in it, turning each one into a slate. Push a change and the page rebuilds itself, so the repo stays the source of truth.
The files stay yours, in your repo, in a plain text format you can read without Slatesource. Disconnecting stops the sync and leaves everything where it is.
Connect your GitHub account in Settings, under Integrations, then pick the repositories you want watched.