AI Builds WebSVG

A few months ago I came to the realisation that as AI is only going to get better, we should be using it to build everything. This led me to start experimenting with APIs, scripts, tools and AI with the idea of creating a fully automated business.

Build Directories First

How do you know what is worth investing your time in to build? Listening to John Rush and Greg Isenberg, it seems a good strategy is to build a directory and see the traffic that comes.

With traffic you then have a number of options: Capture signups, Affiliate marketing, Ads, Build a product for this market, Resell the directory, and so on.

With a directory you can test to see if there is a market, you can build your audience, and then decide what you want to do.

Automate Everything

People don't realise what a boost you get when you try and automate everything. All of a sudden you can easily register multiple nameservers, or post you sitemaps, write your articles, etc. What is more you don't get as tired doing these things again and again. When you automate you can spend more of your time building and doing the things you enjoy.

This is what I did. I created a massive mono repository, that helps me build websites. These projects can be launched form scratch in under a minute. They end up as a reasonable landing page that has good SEO baked in. They've all been registered with Google Search Console and Bing IndexNow. They are ready to go!

The nice thing is, is you don't need to stop there. I have a generic website written in Svelte 5, but all the key components are controlled by feature flags. When I get data for a project, I can turn on the directory feature and directories go live. I can then write a blog post and turn on the blog feature and my blog is ready to go.

Host Cheaply

Web hosting can be really cheap, yet we often want the bells and whistles and security many of these website companies offer e.g. Wordpress, Squarespace, Framer, Webflow, etc.

You don't need any of that now. You can build a website using v0.dev or loveable.dev (using their free credits) or even cursor.com and "vibe code" it into existence. You can then host this on Cloudflare Pages for nothing, or upgrade to their $5pm plan. Did I mention you can host 100 websites for free on Cloudflare Pages... bonkers.

Welcome WebSVG

So websvg.com is the first website I have created that used all my tools and AI. Can you tell it's AI... yeah. However these tools and agents are only going to get better. This is an experiment, and hopefully the start of something exciting and valuable.

If you are interested and would like to follow my story then you can find me on:

x.com/@emson | benemson.com

Thank you!