Neil Lock
Co-founder and developer, United Kingdom · Software
Joined October 2026
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As well as being a co-founder of this site, Neil Lock is its developer. He designed and built all of it: the site itself and every system behind it. Building software, search and hosting has filled more than 25 years of his life in technology. That interest goes back to childhood and the computers on the family farm: the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum. Among the companies he founded are PBN LTD, an AI hosting platform for SEOs, and Zinn Digital®, an AI-first hosting and SEO platform. He and Natalie Lock, his partner in life and in business, co-founded Zinn Hub, a freelance marketplace for digital services; he leads it as CEO and builds much of the platform himself.
Neil Lock's founder stories
Zinn Hub · 1 minute read
The making of Zinn Hub: Neil Lock
Neil Lock co-founded Zinn Hub with Natalie Lock, and he leads it as its CEO. The software behind it is his work: he designed and built the platform. Behind it are more than 25 years of building software, search and...
Into the workshopZinn Digital® · 1 minute read
Neil Lock and the story of Zinn Digital®
Zinn Digital® is Neil Lock's company. The platform he is building for it lives at zinndigital.com. Neil got into technology as a child, on the computer systems of the family farm, the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum, and he...
Into the workshopPBN LTD · 1 minute read
Neil Lock and the making of PBN LTD
Neil Lock created PBN LTD (pbn.ltd), an AI hosting platform for SEOs, and is its only founder. It is built on his understanding of footprint control: what Google can and cannot see. Neil is an SEO scientist and AI engineer...
Into the workshopTranzly · 2 minute read
Neil Lock on building a translation plugin without word limits
The translation plugin Tranzly is built by Neil Lock and developed, sold and supported by Zinn Digital® Ltd, his company. Its plugin page first went up on WordPress.org on 21 October 2020. Neil writes that his plugins follow WordPress.org's standards...
Into the workshopPage Builder Sandwich · 2 minute read
Neil Lock and a lighter way to build WordPress pages
Page Builder Sandwich is a WordPress page builder that Neil Lock builds, developed, sold and supported by his company, Zinn Digital® Ltd. Its history reaches back to 2015, yet the current version 6 was rebuilt from scratch by the Zinn...
Into the workshopAbout Neil Lock
Maker Launches was founded by two people, Natalie Lock and Neil Lock.
Neil is the developer here: he designed the site and built it himself. He also built Zinn Digital®, Zinn Hub and PBN LTD, the three companies you can browse on these pages.
Maker Launches: Made by makers: side projects, indie hackers and solo builders shipping in public, ranked weekly by community votes.
Zinn Hub: Digital services from checked freelancers, with sellers opening at 0% commission.
Zinn Digital®: SEO, domains and hosting for 700,000+ sites, with AI tools and LiteSpeed built in.
PBN LTD: A host for PBNs, on WordPress or static, with end-to-end management.
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Products Neil Lock founded
Zinn Hub
A marketplace with fairer terms, where freelancers and the people hiring them both come out ahead
- Freelance marketplaces
- Growing
- United Kingdom
- 2 votes
Zinn Digital®
SEO, domains and hosting for 700,000+ sites, with AI tools and LiteSpeed built in
- Web hosting
- Growing
- United Kingdom
- 2 votes
PBN LTD
A host for PBNs, on WordPress or static, with end-to-end management
- Backlinks & link building
- United Kingdom
- 2 votes
Page Builder Sandwich
For makers who ship WordPress sites: a builder that respects the markup
- WordPress plugins
- United Kingdom
- 4 votes
Tranzly
A WordPress translation plugin where the free edition covers any number of languages and carries no cap on words
- WordPress plugins
- United Kingdom
- 3 votes