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I let an AI agent build Airtable bases through the API, and flag what I must finish by hand.
▶ 3 min · Jun 2026
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Ship your own website with an AI code agent
I left Framer's €24/month to build my own site with an AI agent — full design control, near-zero cost.
▶ 3 minJun 2026Difficulty 3Cost: Free
Story behind
I used to pay for Framer to host this site.
Pretty, but high-effort, and its built-in AI wasn't good enough.
So I rebuilt the whole thing with an AI code agent.
But ask an agent to "build me a website" and you get something generic.
You can tell straight away it's AI-vibe-coded.
So how do you get a site that looks like you,
not like every AI demo?
It's a process, not a prompt:
- Discovery — what the site is for, and who it's for
- Design system — the fonts, colour, and spacing that keep it consistent
- HTML demo — a quick mockup to judge the look before building
- Build and deploy — the agent writes it, and it goes live
I direct each step in plain words.
The agent writes the code —
and every change ships live in a minute.
Why this helps you
You own it — the code, the content, and the domain are yours. No platform can raise rent or sunset a feature you depend on.
Custom, not template — a real point of view in the design system means it looks like you, not like every other AI-built site.
Cheap to run — free hosting to start and a ~€12/year domain replace a recurring builder subscription.
Editable forever — describe a change in plain English and it ships in a minute; update content by editing a row.
A repeatable method — discovery to deploy works for the next site, and the next client's, too.
How to
Hover or click a step to open it.
Grab it from "Try it yourself" — it runs the whole discovery-to-deploy process.
Good to know
Judge the demo, not the promise — never approve a look from a description. Make the agent show you the HTML first.
Verify the deploy, not the local build — a site that builds on your laptop can still fail on the host. Check the live URL, not just the green checkmark.
The demo is your safety net — flat HTML is throwaway-cheap to iterate. Spend your opinions there, before there's code to refactor.
Design tokens are the multiplier — decide colour, type, and spacing once, name them, and every page inherits consistency for free.
Try it yourself
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