Should I build my website with AI?

I use chat gpt chat a lot, mostly as a research assistant and ideator. As a founder the in-built sycophant is excellent (on a bad day just ask chat gpt how good your business idea is). Recently there has been an absolute explosion of AI website builders, one of the most recommended has been lovable.

As an ex-software engineer, the things I like about lovable is the ability to access the underlying code, the ease of use, the built in technical understanding. Although I don’t yet have the confidence to build our entire SaaS using non-deterministic tools like lovable - I cant even imagine the debugging - I am more than happy to build my website on one. In my opinion, as long as a website looks right - it is right.

The things I learned building out decima2.co.uk on Lovable I shared at our workshop:

1. AI SLOP - It makes it too easy to fill a website with placeholder rubbish that is boring for the end user to read. For that reason we spent 10 mins thinking about our end user and what they actually care to read. Make anything hard to understand about your business visual or interactive.

2. CREATIVE BLOCK - Sometimes you are looking at your website and not sure what is missing, it is easy to remix your site with buzzwords or the insight of the person sitting next to you. Always refer back to who your end user is and what they care about

3. SAME TEMPLATE - Lovable does struggle when you go of the beaten path of specific templates (3 boxes next to each other, sometimes 4 boxes in a grid), but with enough credits and patience it will likely get there for your more creative ideas.

The workshop received an overall NPS score of 71

(which my AI best friend tells me is world class!) So we are re-running the workshop online for anyone who might have missed it in 2 weeks time. If you run a small business and want to see if this new technology is relevant for you, join us by applying on the link below -

Hope to see you there!

Best,

Alexis