InkySitesWho's behind InkySites
Three people build and run InkySites. Karan Daswani designs the sites, Renie Ravin builds and hosts them, and Karthik DR makes sure they get found: about sixty years between them, on the three things a small business's website actually needs. InkySites is a product of Riverbco Technologies Private Limited, a company registered in India, and it has no outside investors. This page is what each of us built before this, and, because you have very probably been let down by a web person before, why you do not have to trust us.
The three of us.
Nobody here is a growth hire or a placeholder on an org chart. There are three of us, we all built things before this, and we each own one third of the problem.
Design
Karan Daswani
Chennai
Karan has run Fingerprints Creative, a brand and design studio in Chennai, since 2007. Nineteen years of identity work, brand systems and digital ecosystems, for technology companies, retailers, restaurants, property developers and schools. In 2022 he co-founded Fingerprints Future to build the web platforms and mobile products alongside them, and in 2026 he was named among Chennai's agency trailblazers.
He has spent nineteen years being the studio a small business hires, which means he knows exactly how that relationship usually ends. Every house style your site can be built in came off his bench.
Engineering
Renie Ravin
Dubai
Renie founded IndiBlogger in 2007 and ran it until 2019: India's largest community of bloggers and creators, more than 40,000 members, over 200 meets in real rooms in real cities, and campaigns for Microsoft, Unilever, Tata, Google and Intel. It paid for itself for twelve years on no outside investment at all.
Since 2021 he has been an architect on PharmacopeAI, a cancer decision-support platform built with the National University of Singapore. Here he builds the machinery: the pipeline that turns a redesign into a live site, and a sentence you type into a change that is actually made.
Getting found
Karthik DR
Chennai
Karthik has spent two decades building revenue engines for other people's companies. At Kanini he built an $18 million pipeline in eighteen months, on half a percent of that figure in marketing spend, while the company grew from 200 people to more than 800. He has advised over a hundred founders since, and he is a member of the Razorpay Founders Network.
He is also building Semabot, a WhatsApp assistant for small businesses in Tamil Nadu, which means his week is spent talking to tiffin shops, saree boutiques, textile traders and home bakers. Those are our customers. He asks them what they need before we build it.
We have done the long version of this before.
Not this exact business. But IndiBlogger was a web presence that had to stay up, stay current and stay findable, every day, for twelve years, while paying for itself. Two of us ran it. Nobody funded it, so nobody could rescue it either, which is a useful thing to have learned early.
That is the closest thing we have to proof, and we would rather show you it than describe ourselves as experienced. It is not the same as a wall of case studies for this product, because this product is new and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What it does tell you is that keeping a website alive for years, on a budget, is a thing we have actually had to do.
We are also not three people who met for this one. All three of us have been co-founders at Riverbco since January 2022, building Riverb, a voice app with nothing in common with a small business's website except the part that matters here: four and a half years of finding out whether we can ship something together and keep it running. InkySites is the second thing built under that roof.
What we are not going to tell you.
That we will always be here.
The person who built your last website probably said something like it, and you are reading this page because of how that went. We are three people. Three people can stop. Anyone who tells you otherwise is asking you to take a risk on their behalf.
So the arrangement is built the other way round. Your domain is registered in your name, at your registrar, the whole time - we never hold it, and we never touch your email. Your site is plain HTML and CSS, with no content management system and no format only we can open, and the complete code is yours to download any day you like. Any web developer on earth could pick it up tomorrow.
The honest limit: the hosting is ours. If we stopped, you would need to put the files somewhere else. You would be moving a folder, not rebuilding a website, and you would not be asking us for permission.
That is the whole trust mechanism, and it is deliberately not a promise about us. How we host and protect your site has the technical version.
The questions people actually ask us.
Who owns InkySites?
InkySites is a product of Riverbco Technologies Private Limited, a private limited company registered in India. Its three co-founders are Karan Daswani, Renie Ravin and Karthik DR, who own it between them. There are no outside investors, so nobody but the three of us can decide what happens to the product or to your site.
How many people work on InkySites?
Three founders, and no studio behind them. That's deliberate rather than a stage we're hoping to grow out of, because it's what makes a flat $29 a month arithmetically possible at all. It's also the honest reason the product is built the way it is: a small company can stop, so your domain stays in your own name and your code is yours to take at any time.
Is the design and build work done by AI?
Much of it is, and that's the trade that makes the price work. Your redesign is executed by an automated build pipeline running the house styles Karan designed. A real person reviews every site before it's sent to you, and a real person reads every change you ask for. We're not pretending a studio of designers is at work, and no site goes out unseen.
Where is InkySites based?
The company is registered in India and two of the three of us are in Chennai. Renie is in Dubai. You're billed in rupees in India and in US dollars everywhere else, and your site is hosted on Google Cloud rather than in any one office.
What happens to my website if InkySites stops trading?
Your domain is registered in your own name at your own registrar, so it never leaves your hands, and your email is never touched. The site itself is plain HTML and CSS with no content management system and no proprietary format, and you can download a complete copy at any time, so any web developer could pick it up and host it elsewhere. The honest limit is that the hosting is ours: if we stopped, you'd need to put the files somewhere else. You'd be moving a folder, not rebuilding a website.
Something else you want to know about us? Email [email protected]. One of the three of us replies.
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