Docwell is a complete self-hosted help center — the product you'd pay HelpScout Docs ($22/user/mo), GitBook ($79/mo, $2,844 over 3 years), or Intercom Articles ($39+/mo) for, running on your own hardware for $29 once. Write articles in markdown, organize them into collections and categories, and give customers a fast, branded, SEO-ready help center with instant search.

• Markdown editor with split-pane live preview (rendered by the exact same pipeline as the public site) and paste-to-upload images

• Collections → categories → articles with reordering, slug control, and a draft/published workflow

• Branded public home page: your logo, brand color, hero search box

• Instant search-as-you-type powered by SQLite FTS5 with highlighted snippets

• Article pages with auto table of contents, prev/next navigation, related articles, and internal [[article-slug]] links

• "Was this helpful?" votes with comments on downvotes, plus an admin report that surfaces your worst articles first

• SEO built in: meta descriptions, OG tags, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, canonical URLs, smart 404 suggestions

• One SQLite file, zero telemetry

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on a $5 VPS (Docker included).

What's included:

• Windows installer download (build via npm run dist)

• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/knowledge-base (MIT)

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)

• Premium tiers coming later