🏘️ Listcraft
A self-hosted property listing website — your listings, your domain, no monthly IDX bill.
IDX website providers charge $50–300+ a month, forever, to host your photos and a contact form — and if you cancel, the site and its SEO disappear. Listcraft is a self-hosted listing website for independent agents and small brokerages. $39, once. Your data is a SQLite file plus photos on your own disk, and your leads come straight to you.
Listcraft screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
Features
Listings
Address, price, beds/baths/sqft, description and active/pending/sold status on premium dark-mode cards.
Photo galleries
Multi-upload with drag-to-reorder, first photo as the cover, stored on your own disk.
Local maps
Leaflet and OpenStreetMap bundled locally with no CDN, showing pins on search and every listing.
MLS-style search
Price range, beds, baths, status, text search and sorting, with a live map of results.
Lead capture
A request-a-showing form on every listing lands in your leads inbox with optional SMTP email notification.
Agent profiles
Multi-agent brokerages get a profile page per agent listing their properties.
Simple CMS
About page, market updates and neighborhood guides in markdown with publish/unpublish.
100% yours
One Node process, one SQLite file and images on local disk, with no telemetry and no required external services.
Listcraft vs IDX site providers
IDX site providers at $50–300+/mo runs roughly $600/year — $1,200 over two years. Listcraft is $39, once.
| Listcraft | IDX site providers | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $39 once | $50–300+/mo |
| Year-1 cost | $39 | $600–3,600+ |
| Your data | SQLite file + photos on your disk | Their servers |
| Leads | Straight to your inbox | Shared, resold, or pay-per-lead |
| Branding | Your domain, logo, colors | Their subdomain and templates |
| Cancel penalty | None | Site and SEO disappear |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Listcraft costs less than a single month at the cheap end of an IDX provider — every month after year one is money you keep.
Three steps, no subscription
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $39 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/property-listing-site and run it free.
Build your listings
Use desktop mode to add listings, photos and agent profiles before you ever touch a server.
Deploy when public
Run docker compose up -d on a $5 VPS, point your domain at it, and you have an agent website with leads coming to you.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Listcraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/property-listing-site, and it always will be. The $39 buys the packaged, zero-config Windows installer; building from source is free.
Who owns the leads and data?
You do. Leads go straight to your own inbox, and the SQLite file plus photos live on your disk — nothing is shared or resold.
Does it need any external services?
No. Maps are bundled locally with no CDN, SMTP for lead emails is optional, and geocoding is only called when you explicitly click Geocode address.
Own Listcraft forever
$39 once. Deploy on your own server — your data never leaves it. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.