Have you had any experience creating a complete website using AI?

I'm curious to hear about real-world experience with AI website development.

Has anyone here successfully created a complete website using artificial intelligence, or at least managed to significantly reduce development costs with AI tools?
I'm not particularly interested in simple landing pages I'm more curious about full-featured projects.
If you've had this experience, I'd love to hear

vibe_sms said:

I'm curious to hear about real-world experience with AI website development.

Has anyone here successfully created a complete website using artificial intelligence, or at least managed to significantly reduce development costs with AI tools?
I'm not particularly interested in simple landing pages I'm more curious about full-featured projects.
If you've had this experience, I'd love to hear

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I am not sure anyone will admit to it. For obvious reasons...People will treat it like a lower level product.

vibe_sms said:

I'm curious to hear about real-world experience with AI website development.

Has anyone here successfully created a complete website using artificial intelligence, or at least managed to significantly reduce development costs with AI tools?
I'm not particularly interested in simple landing pages I'm more curious about full-featured projects.
If you've had this experience, I'd love to hear

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Yes, had this experience recently. Saves ton of your time with ZERO Tech knowledge. It sets up everything even better than your imagination and knowledge. I would say, future is changing faster than we blink our eyes

Parker2010 said:

Yes, had this experience recently. Saves ton of your time with ZERO Tech knowledge. It sets up everything even better than your imagination and knowledge. I would say, future is changing faster than we blink our eyes

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That sounds really interesting. If it's not a secret, what kind of website did you end up creating?

thats how i been building my website. all my websites so far have been a.i. and people seem to like it.

Yes.

A few days ago, one of the users on Reddit shared his AI created website for his local seo client. It was generating leads, and some keywords ranked already. It's highly possible, man, but you need to know which tool to use and how to safeguard it from the unpleasant attack.

Real world experience, I use ai to create website for blogs where the main thing is blog and website is secondary. I use ai for creating local services pages in bulk.
There you go 2 real world example.

I created a website completely with AI. However, there is a lot of manual work involved in checking things as you can never trust AI and blindly publish a site. I've made an excel sheet with database generated by AI, created templates with AI, and then generated pages using a python code generated by AI.

It's a step by step process unlike websites vibe coded through prompts without intervention. With AI agents, it's even easier to do so but I prefer manually going through the process, using AI only to speed up the development instead of completely relying on it. If you have a core concept, you can generate a complete SaaS project with AI alone.

Starblazer said:

I created a website completely with AI. However, there is a lot of manual work involved in checking things as you can never trust AI and blindly publish a site. I've made an excel sheet with database generated by AI, created templates with AI, and then generated pages using a python code generated by AI.

It's a step by step process unlike websites vibe coded through prompts without intervention. With AI agents, it's even easier to do so but I prefer manually going through the process, using AI only to speed up the development instead of completely relying on it. If you have a core concept, you can generate a complete SaaS project with AI alone.

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That sounds really interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what tools or AI platforms did you use to build it? And would you consider the final result a fully functional website that's ready for production after a thorough review?

vibe_sms said:

That sounds really interesting. If you don't mind me asking, what tools or AI platforms did you use to build it? And would you consider the final result a fully functional website that's ready for production after a thorough review?

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I used multiple tools. Chatgpt and Gemini refused to generate some data because it sounds remotely adult. I couldn't reason with them. Claude understood the situation and agreed to generate data. I found it easy to generate huge amounts of data with Claude free version than Gemini Pro.

I used chatgpt for most of the code and Claude for debugging. Claude rewrites code instead of fixing minor bugs. It even enhanced some features. Gemini was bad on all aspects.

I tried to scrape featured images using a python script but found the end result horrible. So, I manually selected images and used scripts for resize and compression.

The end result was good and I was happy with the output. I enjoy the process and will use AI for my future projects too.

I have built like 5 projects in the last few months, for example https://orynote.com, it's a full working product (transcription tool).
I have built it entirely with codex, I have 0 knowledge of coding.
It tool about 2 months, but could be way faster if I'd knew what I know today

Tried to advertise it in google ads = strongly negative ROI (-100% after 700 euros spent)
Tried SEO = google introduced new "filters" and my impressions dropped overnight by 99%.

Project abandoned.

I will tell you what most won't:
It's very easy to build whatever you want with AI, pick one from 2:
- Claude code (recommended)
- Codex (is super good but 10-15% worse than claude because it feels like has lower limits and thinks longer).

Pick how you want to get traffic:
- SEO = dead for beginners and even for many professionals
- Paid advertising = google ads/facebook ads/x ads etc... they will burn your budget by sending you low intent people and bots, forget it.
BUT you could advertise on forums like BHW (if your product fits) or other forums and online markets, have a higher chance than google ads/facebook ads.

Don't think you have a super mega idea that nobody tried, trust me - it was tried by many already. Wait the AI hype to drop when everyone will lose their money and hope, then you can enter the market

Claude is fantastic for this. It can basically one-shot a landing page or SaaS homepage without much effort.

the point about SEO being dead for beginners is what most people skip over. building the site is the easy part now, anyone can do it. i've spun up a couple full projects with claude code myself and the actual product was solid, but then you just sit there staring at zero traffic wondering what to do next.

honestly the abandoned transcription tool story above is the realistic outcome for like 90% of these. not because AI cant build it, it builds fine. its that everyone else is also building the exact same thing this month.

if you already have a traffic source or an audience then yeah AI dev is a huge time saver. if you dont, you're just making a nicer looking product nobody sees. thats the part id figure out first before touching any builder tool imo.

if its a project hire an expert for audit

Yes, and not landing pages. We built a full multi product platform this way, with admin dashboards, background workers, a payment flow, multi account tooling, and live analytics, all in production.

Where AI saves the most is the plumbing, meaning scaffolding, wiring APIs, boilerplate, and fast iteration. That part gets a lot cheaper and faster.

The honest part is that it doesn't replace understanding the code. You still design the architecture, review every change, and test it, because AI writes wrong code confidently and you have to catch it. The further you get from common patterns like custom logic, edge cases, and concurrency, the more you have to drive it yourself.

What made it work for us was keeping each change small and verifiable, reading every diff, running real tests, and never deploying anything you can't read yourself. The cost drop is real, and it's biggest when you know the stack well enough to steer the AI instead of letting it drive blind.

Best,
Floqal

I built a multiple-page website strictly with HTML using Claude. with absolutely no experience whatsoever. I used different AIs to assist me along the way. Claude is great for code, of course. Copilot is like my AI bff, so he knows my personality and helped me keep my content relevant to me. ChatGPT was excellent for helping me do things in WordPress that I had no idea where to start. It was a very long process, but I think a lot of that was just me being so picky about everything from colors to page names and everything in between. Looking back, I now know that I should have spent way more time on the initial planning and conceptual phase and not have jumped right into, "Ok, build the page, let's go mode!!" But in the long run we got it done and up and running. I just failed to follow through like I always do...second-guessing everything and moving on to the next thing that caught my eye.