A website for your café in Utrecht
Search your café and Clay builds a real website, your photos, hours, reviews and a map, ready in minutes.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
A compact, student-heavy canal city with wharf-cellar terraces below street level, where a young, cycling-mad crowd keeps independent cafes, bike-first businesses and small bars thriving.
Utrecht's signature is coffee on the werf cellars right at the water's edge along the Oudegracht, plus student-friendly specialty spots around Twijnstraat and Voorstraat. The order is a flat white or koffie verkeerd with appeltaart, and the large university population fuels an all-day laptop-and-latte café habit. Whatever your café is known for, Clay turns your Google listing into a real website, photos, hours, reviews and a map, so people in Utrecht find you and know what to expect before they visit.
Werf cellars and a term timetable
Two things shape a café in Utrecht that shape one nowhere else. The werf cellars along the Oudegracht put you a floor below street level with a terrace at the water, which is wonderful in June and invisible in January to anybody who does not already know you are there. And the university calendar sets your week: a laptop-and-filter afternoon in November is a different business from the same afternoon in July.
So the page carries the photograph that says where you are, and hours that are actually current in both halves of the year.
Why Clay
It pulls your info from Google
No blank page. Clay reads your Google business listing and fills in your name, photos, hours, map and reviews automatically.
A real website, not just links
Menus, bookings, a shop, a gallery, contact, Clay is a full site that also works as a link-in-bio, not a list of buttons.
Live in minutes, free to start
Search, pick a style, publish. No signup to see it, no credit card, and a free live address at name.clay.site.
Yours to grow
Bring a custom domain, add pro widgets, run multiple sites. It scales from a bio link to a full business site.
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What you can switch on
Every one of these is part of your site, not a plugin to install. Turn on what you use and leave the rest off.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
What you get
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
We are down on the werf and hard to find. Can the site help?
The map is drawn from the coordinates on your Google listing with a one-tap directions link, so a phone routes somebody to the door rather than to the street above it. The one line most owners add by hand is the landmark, which bridge, which side, because that is the thing a stranger actually needs and no map field holds it.
I only have a few photos and no logo. Is that enough?
Yes. Clay builds from your Google listing, and the photos on it, even a handful taken on a phone, are what the page uses. There is no logo slot to fill: the site is set in a chosen typeface with your name in it, which is what most small Utrecht places have anyway.
Can I show my menu?
Yes, Clay has a menu widget with sections, prices and photos. A café that generates from Google gets a menu block pre-filled, ready for you to tweak.
Try it with your business
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