r/ai_website_builder

I wish to build a multidisciplinary website where I will be teaching my course, with the added possibility of writing blogs and selling stuff.

I am particularly looking to build my website without having to touch code at all, all by myself.  I would like to explore tools that allow for broad creative freedom. I have a very clear vision of what I want to build, I know how to design, I can use some Figma if needed, I could even harness AI tools. Bottom line is I don’t want a template structured website builder, like the traditional ways to build websites as a non-coder.

Apart from the Front End, I also value the Back end/admin panel a lot. This will be the central hub where I will interact with customers, connect payment gateways & APIs, manage and streamline the operations, edit contents, and generally centralise different processes to keep better control and organisation of my business. 

I understand that as a non-coder the options are limited. I heard there are many AI website building tools can do almost anything you prompt them, front end or back end, but my issue is, I heard people facing big issues with stability, code breaking all the time, AI wasting tokens without fixing issues etc. This sounds as an extremely volatile path to take and I don’t see how I could build something reliable on a foundation like this.

When it comes to front end, I don’t mind exploring AI solutions, and together with my input, build a kick ass storefront that goes beyond template logic. However, I am clueless on what path to take for backend hosting. Should I also build it with AI? Which one is the best? Is there any AI tool that I can confidently use as an all-around solution? What other non-AI tools are available?

At this moment the only legit combo I can think of is framer for front end + Shopify for back end. I don’t know how the integration will play out and I also don’t like how Shopify upsells everything from its app store.

Please help a brother out, I’m going crazy over this, I got too many options and too little decision making…

Thanks in advance!!!

I keep coming back to Wix and Squarespace every time I start looking into AI website builders. I The reason I am not able to choose between them is because the more I read about them the more confused I get.

The website will include travel packages, destination pages, a gallery of places people can visit, my contact details and a way for potential customers to send inquiries. I also want the site to feel trustworthy because when people are planning trips they want to feel confident about who they are booking with.

Both platforms seem popular, but it is hard for me to understand which one actually works better in practice when it comes to design and customization.

My main concerns are search visibility and how easy it would be to update things later. Travel packages change often and I would need to edit details, prices and images regularly without struggling with the platform after the site goes live.

Anyone who has used either Wix or Squarespace for a travel related project, what was the biggest thing you liked or struggled with?

I would really appreciate some real experiences because right now I am tired of reading comparisons online.

Hi everyone, I’m looking for someone based in the U.S. with experience in web development, SEO, and working with businesses.

I have a strong background in sales and have sold over $200K to small businesses in my last role (in 10 months), primarily in local advertising. I’m comfortable with prospecting, closing, and understanding small business owners’ needs.

I’m now looking to transition into selling websites to small businesses. I know it’s a saturated space, but lead generation and sales are my strengths. My goal is to build a legitimate, scalable business that eventually generates inbound leads for web development services, with upfront pricing and/or retainers.

I’m also focused on building a strong, recognizable brand, not something generic like “XYZ Agency” or AI-generated branding. I have some web design experience as well, particularly with WordPress.

If you have relevant experience and a portfolio of websites you’ve worked on, feel free to DM me.

If you’ve tried building with an AI website/app builder then you know that prompting can get very frustrating very fast especially when you are building a full stack app with frontend and backend.

Prompting gets frustrating when you run into bugs, backend errors, database errors and UI errors and start to copy paste the errors on the chat and hope the AI stops throwing tantrums and fixes it’s mess.

I have tried 3 main ones and this is why I stuck with my current choice:

I have built 10 projects on Floot, 2 are primary that I'm pushing and the other 8 have been to test the scale and depth of the app builder itself. This had been after 2 other AI builders before.

I’m only comparing this to 2 other builders that I’ve used before which also hold their own, no shade thrown. Also comparing this to other drag and drop websites that I used in my freelance career like Webflow and Framer, even WordPress.

Right off the bat, the one thing that stood out is Floot’s low appetite for my AI credits. This was pretty important, I needed something that would not burn through my credits like Replit was doing so I decided to build something that would be slightly resource intensive to test it out.

Initially I had built this same thing on a different builder and had already spent more than $67 dollars, I was on the $20 subscription and had set my additional usage at $18 which went past quick so I had to set my budget at $90 and hope I don’t reach that. I got to $67 and decided to slow down. I was building a simple tool that would use Reddit and Gemini to help find real users.

I decided to build this same thing with Floot and on the free version itself I managed to build it all up, I decided to pay for the subscription simply because I need to connect a custom domain and so that I would get the extra 25,000 credits for when I needed to build out the dashboard and authentication (I was already sold), granted I was now better at building things in steps but still I was impressed.

The second thing that sold me on Floot was its ability to churn out a quality UI and maintain that design system even when I generated other pages, the button styles, typeface, modal styles etc remained the same, I didn’t have to keep asking it to refer to button x on the home page to maintain the same design.

The third thing that got me sold was it would produce way less bugs as compared to the other two. I would spend a lot of time correcting bugs both frontend and backend on the other two, while on Floot this was not the case, and even when correcting bugs it gets the context of what I’m trying to correct the first time (only once have I had to tell it to correct a specific bug 3 times before it caught it, this was a stubborn UI component). Now that they have it ask for context before building makes it even easier to sort out bugs and errors.

The fourth thing is that the founders are quite reachable, especially on their Discord server so issues get solved fast, and feature requests appear fast as well. This could be because they are still a small team and the corporate nature of startups/companies has not yet crept in, but so far the customer care is solid, I do hope they maintain this as it is one of the most important ones, to be able to talk to a human when there is a problem.

Lastly, while it’s quite robust, it also has a pretty simple UI and is quite easy to get started on, things are easy to find.

They are definitely still a small player in the market but if you are looking for an alternative where the founders still care about the customer then you should try it out. I may be biased coz I now affiliate for Floot but I hope the explanation above vindicates me, more than that you can also test out their Free verison, it's quite good and find out for yourself. 

 

 

 

I have experience building WordPress and Shopify stores, mostly for B2B service-based businesses. I previously built a WordPress website, but I’m not in love with the design. I recently tried building a version in Lovable, and it looks great, with animations and everything.

I’m curious whether it’s possible to transfer or recreate a similar design in WordPress. Does anyone have experience doing that, and is it realistically possible to recreate something close? I’d especially love to replicate the animations, but I’ve never built anything like that natively in WordPress.

On top of that, I’d appreciate some honest advice: is it worth going all-in on the Lovable site instead of trying to recreate it in WordPress? My concern is that SEO and small tweaks may always be a hassle with Lovable, since you have to prompt changes and sometimes the result still isn’t exactly what you want.

Hey friends,

If you want to build a website that is more than some static pages and you don't want to blow taken re-writing everything from scratch let me introduce the Ultimate AI Agent for WordPress.

It runs inside your existing WordPress site on any hosting provider. Just bring your own API for any of the big AI providers and use natural language to build your site.

No lock-in. Full freedom. No Complex MCP config.

Check it out at https://ultimateagentwp.ai

I’ve been playing around with some ai web developers and someone had suggested pagesmith.ai as it apparently does seo/geo. Has anyone here used it? I can’t find any reviews online about it and I don’t want to take the leap and pay for it if it’s not legit.

I did play around with it and it seems okay enough but since I’m new to ai website builders I thought I would ask. I’m pretty tech savvy and created my current site on Wordpress, but I’m hoping to migrate my partner’s site from Go Daddy somewhere else.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

Most service businesses are operating on a legacy mental model. They believe that if they have a clean website and a contact form, they have a "digital presence." In reality, they have a brochure that sits in total silence waiting for a lead to move first.

In a market that moves at machine speed, relying on a contact form is a fundamental architectural flaw. You are essentially waiting for a buyer to finish their research and make a decision before you even know they exist.

The Architecture of the AI Operating System

I build custom signal infrastructure for service businesses ready to stop losing leads to slower competitors. We move you away from "owning a website" and toward owning a system.

• From Brochure to Surveillance: Your presence should not just host information; it should monitor the Ghost Market.
• Signal Interception: Hunter Engine identifies the 97% of buyers researching your niche in silence. It maps technical friction and research spikes while the timing is still perfect.
• Identity Resolution: We bypass the anonymous "ping" of a website visitor. The system delivers a 99.4% verified LinkedIn identity directly to your dashboard.
• Custom AI OS: We build the custom logic behind the engine to map these signals to your specific service offering and conversion mechanism.

The Efficiency Gap

The difference between a still website and an AI Operating System is the 2-week research lag. While your competitors wait for a manual hire to find and verify a lead, your system has already intercepted the intent at the source.

Infrastructure allows you to achieve a 2-3% response rate because you are responding to a live technical reality, not a static list.

The Diagnostic Question Are you currently waiting for the market to find you through a contact form, or are you ready to intercept the buyers researching your niche in total silence right now?

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