What Bounley is
A personal brand needs three things to look like a real business: a domain with your name on it, an email address at that domain, and a website for the domain to show. Getting them usually means a domain registrar, an email provider and a website builder, wired together by hand. Bounley sets up all three in one place.
You claim a name, type one username, and Bounley finds your other accounts and builds your site at bounley.me/yourname, usually in about two minutes. From the same site it makes a digital business card, a QR code, an email signature and the picture that shows when your link is shared in a chat. Change your site and all of them change with it. With Premium, the site runs on your own domain, with an email address at it and the inbox inside Bounley.
Bounley at a glance
| Name | Bounley |
|---|---|
| What it is | The platform built for personal brands: your own domain, a professional email at it and a website, in one place |
| Website | bounley.com |
| Where sites live | bounley.me/yourname, or your own domain with Premium |
| Founder | Doug McGuire |
| Social media marketer | Samuel Hix |
| Price | The site, card, QR code, signature and stats are free during the beta; Premium (own domain and email) is invitation-only during the beta |
| Contact | support@bounley.com · press: press@bounley.com |
Who it’s for
Anyone whose name is their brand: creators, streamers, musicians, artists, athletes, writers, podcasters, coaches, consultants and freelancers. It works just as well for a small business, a band or a club that wants one address to put everywhere and an email that matches it.
What we believe
- Your site is yours. You own what you put on it. Download a copy or delete all of it, any time, from your dashboard. On a domain you connect, even the address is yours, and it goes with you if you ever leave.
- No ad trackers. Your site counts its views and taps without cookies and without selling anything about your visitors. The Privacy Policy says exactly what is kept.
- Fast on a phone. Most people open a link on a phone, often inside another app. Sites are drawn at the edge, close to whoever opened them, and show up before the heavy parts load.
- Honest about what costs money. The site, the card, the QR code, the signature and your stats are free while Bounley is in beta. Premium adds a domain of your own and email at it, and it says so up front.
Why Bounley is in beta, and why that’s good for you
Bounley is in beta because it’s new and still growing fast, not because the basics are unfinished: sites, cards, QR codes, signatures, stats and the inbox all work today. Joining now has real advantages:
- You get your name. Names on bounley.me are first come, first served. Every week someone else could claim yours.
- It’s free. Your site, card, QR code, email signature and stats cost nothing during the beta, and there’s no card to enter.
- You talk to the person who builds it. Bounley is built by its founder, so a message to support@bounley.com reaches someone who can change the product, not a ticket queue.
- It gets better every week. Improvements ship every week, and you can ask for the next one.
- Nothing is locked in. You can download a copy of your page any time, and a domain you connect stays registered to you.
Beta also means some things will change as Bounley grows, which the Terms say plainly. Premium, for your own domain and email, is by invitation during the beta so each new domain is set up with care and its email warmed up to reach inboxes; to ask for one, email support@bounley.com.
The name
Bounley is said BOWN-lee, like the start of “bounce”, and spelled B-O-U-N-L-E-Y: one word, with a capital B in a sentence and all lowercase in the logo. Its address is bounley.com, and people’s sites are at bounley.me. If you searched for Bownly, Bounly, Bownley or Boundley, this is the one.
Bounley was called HandleClub until October 2026. It’s the same company, run by the same people, with the same accounts and sites: every handleclub.com and handle.club link now leads to the same place on bounley.com and bounley.me. The logo and brand are on the brand page.
Who’s behind Bounley: the team
Bounley was founded by Doug McGuire, who builds it and writes its guides. It started from a simple problem: setting up a website, a domain and an email address for a personal brand meant three companies, a lot of DNS and an afternoon lost. Bounley does it in one place, in minutes.
Samuel Hix is Bounley’s social media marketer.
Find out more
- Everything Bounley does
- The personal brand guide: build it, grow it and make it look professional
- Your own domain and email
- Discover creators on Bounley
- Press kit, screenshots and logo
- Questions people ask
Contact
Questions, ideas or problems: support@bounley.com. Press: press@bounley.com. To report a page that breaks the rules, use Report a page.