Startups

You’re building your first startup.

You have a few products — each with pricing, descriptions, and maybe some stats you show on your website. These things don’t change every minute. Your pricing updates once a month, product info maybe once a week, and your “1,000+ customers served” counter changes daily at best.

But every single time someone visits your website, your server wakes up just to serve the same data again — fetching, parsing, sending identical responses, thousands of times a day. Those small requests pile up, eating your bandwidth, compute, and time.

Before you know it, your backend is wasting resources repeating work that doesn’t need to happen.

That’s where StatikAPI steps in.

No servers. No computation. Just JSON.

Instead of asking your backend to serve the same static information again and again, you can pre-generate that data as plain static JSON files — hosted globally on a CDN.

That means:

• Zero compute wasted on repetitive requests.
• Lower hosting costs since JSON is just static text.
• Instant responses — no waiting for server logic.

Your visitors get lightning-fast data delivery, and your server finally gets to focus on the important stuff — like payments, authentication, and real business logic.

How you might organize your project

Inside your src-api/ directory, you decide what data to expose as static JSON.
Here’s a simple example setup:

src-api/
  pricing/
    index.js          → pricing plans
    features.js       → feature matrix
  products/
    index.js          → product list
    [slug].js         → product details
  stats/
    site/
      daily.js        → daily counters

Each file just exports data or logic. When you run:

pnpm static-build

StatikAPI executes your code once and generates ready-to-serve JSON files under api-out/.
From there, it’s just static files — no servers, no compute, no cold starts.

Setup in minutes

npx create-statikapi my-startup
cd my-startup
pnpm static-dev

This launches a local environment with a live preview UI where you can explore routes, view output, and test your JSON endpoints instantly.

The create-statikapi scaffold already supports deployment configs for Cloudflare, Netlify, and GitHub Pages — with more platforms to come.

Once you’re ready to go live:

pnpm static-build

And deploy the generated api-out/ folder anywhere.

Keeping your JSON up to date (the smart way)

Static doesn’t mean frozen — updating your data is super simple.

• Scheduled rebuilds: Both Cloudflare and Netlify support scheduled jobs (CRON triggers) that can automatically rebuild and redeploy your static JSON every hour, day, or week.
• Webhooks: These platforms also support deploy webhooks — just hit your unique webhook URL, and your project rebuilds automatically. Perfect when you want instant updates after a content or data change.
• Manual redeploys: If you prefer to stay in control, you can always redeploy manually on Cloudflare, Netlify, GitHub Pages — or soon on StatikAPI Cloud (coming soon, join the waitlist).

The key difference is: your build runs once, but can serve thousands of requests afterward — without ever touching your server again.

Why it matters

Your static JSON files:

• Use your server resources only once, during build.
• Serve data to thousands of visitors instantly via CDN.
• Keep costs low and performance high.

The result?
Your server stays focused on the things that actually need logic, while pricing, product data, and metrics live happily as lightweight JSON — fast, cacheable, and globally available.

TL;DR

Startups can use StatikAPI to:

• Serve pricing, product catalogs, and usage stats as static JSON.
• Deploy anywhere — Cloudflare, Netlify, GitHub Pages, and more.
• Keep data fresh using scheduled rebuilds or webhooks.
• Save time, money, and server load instantly.

Static JSON = less cost, more speed, zero backend stress.