qwetru.ru is the Russian-language representative of Qwetru, the side of the platform for people who create with their heads: they write books chapter by chapter, run a blog with their own archive, and gather readers around themselves. The idea behind it is a single one: an online community should belong to the person who built it.
What is wrong with someone else's platform
An author who publishes on someone else's platform is renting space. The readers are gathered there, but the subscribers, the comments, and the archive are not theirs: an algorithm decides whether anyone will see a new chapter, the account can be blocked without explanation, the rules change unilaterally, and moving an audience to another platform is almost impossible. It is a good deal — for the platform.
What we do here
We give the author a place of their own: a book whose chapters are entries with their own address and their own place in the table of contents, a blog with an archive, a magazine, a forum, and a reader account with email registration. We sell access to the control panel where all of this is created, and we state the prices: a subscription from ₽1,000 a month, with the tiers and what they include on the page "Your own site here". We also keep a live installation of the platform: dozens of sites run on this very server, and any of them can be opened — see sites on this server and "About the server".
What stays with you
The audience, the advertising, and the profit are yours. The ad block is assembled in the same panel, and no one takes a share of what your site earns: subscriptions, advertising, books sold. The archive can be exported, the subscription can be moved to your own domain, and you can change the platform or the regional representative — the data sits in your own space. The platform is developed by the HILDUS foundation: it writes the software and sells nothing.
Who this is for
For authors who publish books chapter by chapter, bloggers, essayists, journalists, artists — and for readers who want to belong to a place rather than feed an algorithm. There is no lower limit on scale: the site of a girl who draws pictures to order is, for the platform, as full a case as a trilogy in twelve parts. If you are gathering customers rather than readers, you need the commerce side of the platform — shopnseo.ru.
What we do not promise
The platform does not write for you and does not gather an audience. It does the mechanical half — speed, structure, the sitemap, metadata — and the other half stays with you: original text that comes out regularly. Readers take months to arrive, and the first ten are harder to get than the next thousand. The built-in AI assistant helps you write and edit, but you remain the author.
And an honest word about scale: on the Russian-speaking market there is so far only one Qwetru representative — us. If something on the site is not ready, we will say so rather than sell what does not exist yet.
Where to go next
- Your own site here — tiers, prices, and how to start;
- Studio help — do it yourself or hand it to a studio, with a one-time price list;
- Sites on this server — what already runs on the platform;
- The Qwetru platform — what the engine is made of;
- Questions and answers — common questions about a place on the server.