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Everything a first-time visitor asks before creating an account, in plain language. If yours is missing, email support and we will answer it and add it here.
About NoSite
- What is NoSite?
- NoSite is a lead marketplace for web designers, developers and agencies. It maintains a live pool of small businesses that sell through Instagram but have no website of their own. You browse and filter the pool for free and spend one credit to reveal a business's contact details. Credits are bought in one-time packs, never a subscription.
- Where do NoSite leads come from?
- Every lead starts as a public Instagram business profile. NoSite discovers profiles through hashtags and locations, reads only the public bio, link and recent posts, and keeps the ones that show a real business with no website. Google Maps listings that carry a phone number but no website are added the same way.
- How does NoSite know a business has no website?
- A profile passes the no-website gate only if its bio link is empty or points to a link-in-bio tool, a marketplace or a social network rather than a site the business owns. Linktree, Beacons, Etsy, Square ordering pages, Hotplate and WhatsApp links all count as no website. Any link to a domain the business owns, including a Shopify store on its own domain, disqualifies it.
- How fresh are the leads?
- New businesses are added around the clock. On a typical day the pool grows by roughly one thousand profiles, and the homepage shows the live count. Existing leads are re-checked on a schedule, and a business that launches a website or goes inactive is hidden from the catalog.
- What does a reveal cost?
- One credit reveals one business's full contact details: phone, email when public, address and social links. Re-opening a lead you already revealed is always free. Searching and filtering the catalog costs nothing.
- How much do credits cost?
- Credits come in three one-time packs paid through PayPal: Starter is 50 credits for 19 dollars, Growth is 200 credits for 59 dollars and Scale is 500 credits for 119 dollars. Credits never expire, and every pack includes the REST API and the MCP server.
- Which countries are covered?
- The pool is global. The largest shares today are the United States, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Algeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Brazil, and the country and city filters show the exact count for any place before you spend a credit.
- Which kinds of businesses are in the pool?
- Food businesses dominate, especially home bakeries, cake makers, dessert shops and patisseries, because they sell almost entirely through Instagram DMs. Roofing and home-repair contractors, beauty services and other local trades are growing. Each lead carries an AI-assigned business type you can filter on.
- Is NoSite an Instagram scraper?
- No. NoSite is a curated lead pool built from public business profiles, not a tool that scrapes Instagram for you. It collects only information a business has published on a public profile, never private accounts or messages, and it removes any listing on request from the business owner.
- Can I use NoSite from code or from an AI agent?
- Yes. Every credit pack includes a REST API with per-project keys and a daily credit cap you set, plus an MCP server so Claude, Cursor, Codex and other agents can search the pool and reveal leads. Agents must confirm before any action that spends a credit.
- Can two customers reveal the same lead?
- Yes, revealing is not exclusive. If you want a lead to yourself while you pitch it, you can place an exclusive claim from the catalog, which hides the lead from other customers for the length of the hold.
- What if a revealed lead has wrong or missing contact details?
- Contact details are extracted from the public profile at reveal time and re-checked on a schedule. If a reveal turns out to be unusable, email support with the lead and the credit is refunded.
About finding businesses without a website
- How do I find businesses that don't have a website?
- Look where businesses trade without one: Instagram and Facebook profiles whose bio has no link or only a Linktree, Google Maps listings with a phone number but no website button, and marketplace sellers on Etsy or Square. Check each candidate by hand or use a pool like NoSite that has already applied that test to tens of thousands of profiles.
- How many small businesses have no website?
- Surveys consistently put the share of small businesses without a website between a quarter and a third, and much higher among solo food, craft and beauty businesses that sell through social media. NoSite's pool alone holds tens of thousands of active Instagram businesses with no website, growing by about a thousand a day.
- Is scraping Instagram for leads legal?
- Collecting information a business has made public on its profile is generally lawful, but Instagram's terms prohibit automated collection, unofficial scrapers break often, and privacy laws such as GDPR still apply to any personal data you store. The safer route is to use only public business data, honour removal requests, and contact businesses about a service relevant to what they already do.
- What is the best way to get web design clients?
- The highest-converting prospects are businesses that already sell online but have no website, because the need is visible and the owner feels it daily. Find them, lead your message with how they take orders today, offer one concrete improvement, and include a link to a demo or portfolio. Referrals and local networking compound on top of that.
- Does a Linktree count as a website?
- No. A Linktree, Beacons or similar link-in-bio page is a menu of links on someone else's domain. The business owns no domain, has no search presence and cannot take orders, so for lead qualification it counts as having no website.