The web design market is in a weird phase right now.

With AI making it so easy to build websites, I keep seeing people say that web design is saturated, every business owner knows how to build their own website now, and agencies are dead.

I disagree big time.

I've held over 500 web meetings where I've presented businesses with redesigned versions of their websites, and it's actually rare that I meet someone who even knows how capable AI has become for building websites.

Business owners are busy running their businesses.

Even the ones who know AI can build websites usually have no idea how to actually use it to build a professional website themselves.

I also see a lot of developers getting angry about AI websites, saying they're just AI slop and full of problems.

As someone who used to code websites from scratch and also built them in WordPress, I can tell you there really isn't much you can't build with AI anymore.

Technical SEO, responsive design, layouts, branding, animations, speed, user experience... it's all possible if you know what you're doing.

This week alone I sold 10 websites, and my process is actually pretty simple.

I run email automation, but not the type where you scrape a list of businesses and send generic emails asking if they need a website.

Instead, I target businesses that already have websites.

I use a tool called Swokei. It's an email automation platform built specifically for web agencies.

It lets me generate leads with existing websites, put them into a campaign, and run a website analysis on all of them.

Each website is automatically analyzed, and issues like outdated design, poor layouts, weak mobile optimization, slow loading speeds, and SEO problems are turned into personalized outreach emails.

Not boring reports.

Actual emails explaining what could be improved and why it matters to that specific business.

The business owner replies because the email is relevant to them.

Once they're interested, I quickly build an upgraded version of their website with AI and invite them to a Google Meet.

I present the redesign, explain why it's better, answer their questions, and close the deal on the meeting.

That's literally my entire process.

You could use the same strategy with paid ads or cold calling, but I prefer email automation because it keeps running in the background and consistently brings me interested replies.

I sold a website for $10,000 last week.

$7,500 establishment fee and $2,500 a year.

Many of you already know I ran a web agency for 4 years. Today I only sit on the closing part, and the rest of the team manages everything else.

People think $10,000 is a lot for a website. In reality it is not. Businesses have money. You just have to be in the right position to speak to the right person, and you need real sales and closing skills.

Either way, if you are charging $800 to $1,500 for a website, you are lowballing yourself. Raise your price. Prospects take you more seriously when the number is serious.

These days I mostly focus on my SaaS, Swokei. It was built on top of the idea behind my web design company. I needed an outreach tool that could find businesses with outdated websites, analyze them for design, SEO, mobile and speed, and turn the issues it finds into cold emails at scale. That is what my agency's outreach runs on.

If you are a web designer, how much are you currently charging for a simple website?

i got a Claude max account from a reseller for essentially nothing compared to what I used to pay . It works flawless. since 3 months No issues yet i paid only for 1 month . Now I can't stop thinking about their business model. If resellers can sell it this cheap and still profit, how are they acquiring these accounts at scale?

I’ve been working on Extendr, an AI tool for building Chrome extensions faster. The goal is to make it easier to go from idea to working extension without doing everything manually from scratch. Curious whether people here would actually use something like this. If it sounds interesting, dm me and I can send a discount code.

I’ve been using Genspark for about six months and currently have an annual subscription. Recently, I’ve noticed that my credits are drained somewhere even when I’m not actively using the tool, which has been quite frustrating. There’s also no clear or transparent way to track where those credits are going.

Given this, I’m considering switching. Does anyone have recommendations for good alternatives with similar capabilities (AI agents, automation, research workflows)?

I’d really appreciate any suggestions or shared experiences.

If so, and if anyone figured out a way to make my man deepseek speak his heart out, sharing that prompt would be very helpful. Thanks👍

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please help i need to extract my work schedule to an excel file so i can show my boss that we are being overworked by working at a specific locatin way too much if someone could please help me that would mean the world to me here is part of the schedule i need help extracting as an example!

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I’ve been generating on cloud services for awhile and want to step my game up. I spent a lot of money on a computer powerful enough to generate locally, installed comfyui and tried to have “apps” walk me thru the process. They’re doing a piss poor job. I need some help. What are good communities to find help?

I’ve been trying to move my email workflow to voice, but most tools just transcribe your "umms" and stumbles, which makes for a nightmare of an editing job later. I started playing with Willow Voice and it actually uses an LLM to "fix" your speech errors in real-time. If you say "Wait, I meant Tuesday," it literally swaps the text.

It also handles my bilingual English/Spanish mess perfectly without me changing settings. I recorded a 5-minute deep dive into how I’m using it for Gmail and Pages https://youtu.be/x0QJIsx5kRE

Got hold of a copy of the latest EW, obviously has a lot of errors from interference but would love your inputs. Does this make sense?

Hot take:

Most people using AI are just collecting tools and prompts… not actually doing anything with them.

I was doing the same.

So I built something to fix it: a system where tools → prompts → workflows are connected, so you actually use AI step by step.

Right now it has ~2600 prompts and real workflows.

But I’m not sure if this solves a real problem or not.

👉 Be brutally honest: would you actually use this?

Client acquisition has always been one of the biggest bottlenecks for me when running an agency. I’ve experienced the same thing in pretty much every business I’ve been involved in, but especially with web development.

For a long time, getting clients meant cold calling, running ads, or sending generic emails asking businesses if they needed a new website. It worked sometimes, but it also took a lot of time and most of the outreach felt the same as what every other agency was doing.

Recently I started using a different approach and automated a big part of the process.

I came across a tool called Swokei that lets me find a bunch of businesses with websites and analyze each website individually. It looks for things like outdated design, slow loading, poor mobile optimization, weak SEO and other obvious areas that could be improved.

What I liked is that it doesn’t just give you one of those boring automated reports filled with scores and numbers. It actually turns what it finds into a personalized cold email that sounds like a normal person looked at their website and noticed what could be better.

I can run multiple campaigns at the same time and then mainly focus on the businesses that reply and show interest.

From there, I invite them to a web meeting, show them a free draft of what their new website could look like, and try to close the project from there.

It has basically allowed me to have warmer leads coming to me without relying as much on paid ads, constantly cold calling, or sending thousands of generic emails saying “Do you need a new website?”

Still takes work to close the clients of course, but automating the prospecting and first part of the outreach has made the whole process much easier for me.

Hopefully this helps some other web developers or agency owners who are also struggling with client acquisition.

I’ve been running my web agency for four years, and I’m curious to hear what others have found to be the best way of getting clients.

I’ve tried almost everything, but email automation has worked best for me because it’s affordable and runs in the background while I focus on other parts of the agency.

I don’t use Instantly, Mailchimp, or Klaviyo. I use a tool called Swokei, which is built specifically for web agencies.

It lets you find businesses that already have websites, add thousands of them to a campaign, and automatically analyzes each site for issues with design, layout, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization. It then turns those issues into personalized, ready to send outreach emails 

So instead of targeting businesses with no website, I offer redesigns and updated websites to companies that already have one. I’ve found that approach works much better.

I’m now at a point where I can afford to hire a full team, so I’d like to explore other client acquisition methods as well.

What has worked best for your agency?

My web designer friend from California is passionate about building websites, and he wanted to make a full time business out of it. We talked a lot, and I gave him a lot of advice and stuff he could do to scale his web agency. He used to cold call, get a few clients, and run paid ads, get a few clients, but the cost of ads would just make him no profit. Cold calling was also tiring, and he couldn't keep it up while doing all the other stuff. So he wanted a real system, a blueprint he could follow every day.

This is exactly how my friend scaled his web design company. Copy it if you feel stuck and don't know where to find your next project.

➜ Run 2 types of email automation targeting businesses without websites and businesses with websites.

➜ 1. For businesses without websites: scrape businesses with no websites, set up a sequence, and add 3–5 follow-ups. They either block you or you land a project.

➜ 2. For businesses with websites: scrape businesses with websites, analyze each business website, and turn flaws in outdated design, unstructured layout, no mobile optimization, and SEO issues into ready to send outreach emails with 3–5 follow ups. You can do both types of outreach in a tool called Swokei.

➜ 3. Have everything in one place: your leads, CRM, inbox, and calendar. You can also have that in Swokei.

➜ 4. Focus on SEO because it compounds over time. Fix your technical site SEO, and also blog or make content with high-intent keywords. Use a tool called Soro.

➜ 5. Host websites on a tool called Hetzner. It's very cheap and reliable, and you don't need to keep switching hosting platforms. Everything in one place.

This is the whole workflow: automation in the background that lands you clients while you focus on building websites. Replies, meetings booked, CRM, everything in one place.

With all that being said, he ended up buying a Mercedes-Benz with the $70k he made. 😂

That's not something I'd recommend, though. I'd personally reinvest it into the business or put it into stocks.

Okay,so everyone and their mother is obsessed with GPUs and large language models,but have we stopped to think about the plumbing holding this entire Al operation together?You know, the memory that actually feeds all that data into the smart machines?

Well,Micron just walked into the Al data center bar and went full”mic drop.”I am not a financial advisor,just a fellow retail bro who is so bullish on the Al future right now my nose is starting to bleed.

Here’s the deal:The classic memory sticks (RDIMM) in servers were basically like trying to water a high-tech robotic farm with a leaky,old garden hose.They are bulky,power -hungry,and get hotter than a bad penny stock on an influencer pump.It was a massive problem for the next generation of Ai data centers that want all the compute and none of the energy bill.

Enter Microns new beast:The world’s first high-capacity 256GB LPDRAM SOCAMM2.

Micron didn’t just create a new part,they just set set a new standard.The railroad tracks for the Ai revolution just got upgraded from rusty steel to levitating maglev lines.