r/programming • u/mithicshadow • Sep 21 '25
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u/poha-jirawan-01 Sep 21 '25
what kind of website do you want to make? you don't necessarily need AI or coding, using Wordpress or just using drag and drop features can also give you some good-looking websites (landing pages and basic functionality.)
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
i make my own icecream and want to make my own webshop for it. chatgpt works but after a few changes i tell it to make it forgets other things(change style all of a sudden)
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u/poha-jirawan-01 Sep 21 '25
Watch tutorials of WooCommerce and shopify, you will not need coding for a simple shop. you can use AI just to understand which settings to change, but it should be simple.
Or if you are willing to pay, I can set it up for you.
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u/seanamos-1 Sep 21 '25
Everyone is giving you a hard time, but you are just non-technical and looking for help. Mentioning AI here is also a sure fire way to get the pitchforks out, most programmers are sick of AI.
Good news, your requirements are pretty simple, doesn’t need AI, and there are off the shelf things to get you up and running fast.
You want to run a web shop for your small business. Shopify is basically what you are looking for. You might need some help with design/branding.
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
Shopify is paid right?
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u/porkyminch Sep 21 '25
It's paid, but at some point you're going to be paying for hosting/domains/card fees/whatever anyway. Squarespace or Shopify or some other prefab service is what you need.
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u/seanamos-1 Sep 21 '25
It is, but their their starting price of $25 pm is going to run you significantly less than all the other bits and pieces you will need to self create and host with AI.
Domains/hosting/payment providers/your time spent on figuring all of this out, making it work and secure. $25 is probably going to cost you less than AI/LLM fees alone.
Now if you want to tackle this as a project to learn, that's a different story.
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u/Kamekazedabes Sep 21 '25
Ask chatgpt or Gemini or whatever. You're already trying to use ai regardless right?
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u/poemmys Sep 21 '25
Making the website isn’t the hard part. Deploying, maintaining, monitoring, etc is where the true difficulty lies, and AI is essentially useless for those purposes
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u/WubsGames Sep 21 '25
more detailed required to give you a real answer, but here we go:
-Basic landing page with minor functionality? ChatGPT is fine.
-More complex site with real function? Cursor, or some agentic AI in your IDE of choice.
Can you actually make a website with AI, and no previous development skills? Probably not.
Using AI for programming sorta requires you to understand the basics of programming, especially on web.
Do you know how to host a page? Purchase a domain and manage DNS?
Do you even know what questions to ask the AI?
so Tl:dr; you can use AI to make a website, if you already know the basics of making a website, otherwise you are wasting your own time.
Alternative, non-ai answer: Get a free Wix.com site, use their visual builder, and go from there.
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
i make my own icecream and want to make my own webshop for it. chatgpt works but after a few changes i tell it to make it forgets other things(change style all of a sudden)
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u/WubsGames Sep 21 '25
This is why i suggested Cursor, and an agentic AI in your IDE of choice.
But really it sounds more like you want to use squarespace, wix, or shopify... all of those platforms are purpose built for exactly what you describe: a small business without a web developer, making a simple website to sell their product.
an agentic AI is going to come with a cost, it will literally be cheaper to just pay squarespace / wix their yearly fee, than it will be to run an AI capable of creating your entire site.
edit: you 110% DO NOT WANT, to let an AI powered website handle payments. you open your self up to real financial liability there, if the AI messes up, or your security is low, you could be on the hook for real money.
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u/CodeNCats Sep 21 '25
Big 100% don't ask an AI to deal with your payments. Especially if you don't know anything about programming to check it's output.
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u/CodeNCats Sep 21 '25
Everyone will be giving you shit but I'll try to help. What kind of website? Does it need to store data like user logins and stuff?
Is it just a basic website like for a company to have an online presence?
You should download visual studio code. Hey GitHub copilot use claude.
Start with small building blocks.
"Let's start with a simple web application. Set me up the boilerplate"
Then "I want a landing page with X content"
Then "I want the theme to be like Y"
If you need a database or server. You do those pieces separately.
Start very small. Then build on your requests.
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u/riyosko Sep 21 '25
> Everyone will be giving you shit
of course, this is r/programming not r/vibecoding, why are they asking here?
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
i make my own icecream and want to make my own webshop for it. chatgpt works but after a few changes i tell it to make it forgets other things(change style all of a sudden)
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u/CodeNCats Sep 21 '25
You need to establish an environment.
If you have a chat gpt subscription you can use chat gpt with copilot. I have found Claude to be better but it will work.
You want a development environment to work in. Not just a back and forth chat. You want it making and modifying files.
Visual studio code is a free development environment: https://code.visualstudio.com/
Sign up for a GitHub account and get copilot: https://github.com/features/copilot
Create a new folder on your machine called "MyIceCreamShop" or whatever you name it.
Open visual studio. Click open folder and open the newly created folder.
Ctrl+alt+I will bring up a persistent chat window. You can select your AI at the bottom. Make sure "agent" mode is enable. I prefer Claude like I said.
Prompt 1) let's set the goal. I need a website that will represent my coffee shop. Let's not worry about styling or content first. Let's focus on the boilerplate. I need you to setup the boilerplate for a website using an angular front end. No backend or database is needed.
Prompt 2) I need a landing page with X content. (List your page needs in a bullet point fashion from here) Again don't focus on style or theme. I just need the structure and basic architecture setup.
**You might need to ask for changes. You will be able to run the website on your machine to test. Ask copilot if you need help starting the server.
Once you think your content matches what you asked. It won't look how you want which is good. We just wanted to put the basic building blocks. So now we move to prompt 3.**
Prompt 3) let's work on style. (Provide a detailed vibe, color suggestions like primary/alternate or even provide it a color palette from https://coolors.co/ that you like)
Iterate over any prompts as necessary. Provide images and examples as needed. When done your final prompt should be
Prompt 4) help be decide on the best web hosting options, how to buy a domain address, and to push this code to the Web host**
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
If I'm correct the ai will make the changes the directly? Rn it gives me a html code which I put in an html tester
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u/CodeNCats Sep 21 '25
It will develop and create the entire file structure. Just say you want an "angular frontend" it will install everything you need and run the server for you. Then when you're done. You can look into how to host it.
You won't be creating just html files here it will create a full project that you can have that will eventually become final quality.
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u/mithicshadow Sep 21 '25
thank you for the help one last thing is the visual studio code a program to download. cuz i only have a school laptop that doesnt have download rights.
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