Kite AI

What if getting a website was just a conversation? Tell Kite what you need → choose from 3 custom designs → make changes the same way → ship when it feels right. Try it free at kite.ai 🪁

Designed and launched the full fledged website for a Gym under 24 hours. Brainstorming: #ChatGPT Designing: @BuildWithKite Image Improvement: #Nanobanana Would love some feedback and criticism. Check it out for yourself! fityard-web.vercel.app

We had one engineer and one designer “owning” our website. That was the bottleneck. Kite(.)ai is our attempt to remove it: build a great site, then keep improving it without turning every change into a project. Launch video below.

I wanted an empty state in @buildwithkite that felt alive. Building animations isn't where my reps are — so I opened Claude and designed through conversation. From idea to shipped code in one afternoon.

Most AI app builders win the first minute. You get a slick draft. Then the real work starts. You tweak copy. Add a page. Swap images. Fix mobile. Keep it on-brand. Nudge SEO. That’s where non-tech folks get stuck. They don’t know what to ask. So they either stop editing or they break the design. Kite is built for that phase. It doesn’t expect perfect prompts. It guides you through choices: 1. Pick one of 3 directions (safe, similar, bold) 2. Lock the layout rules so the site stays consistent 3. Move into “edit mode” so changes are precise, not random 4. Add guardrails so a small change doesn’t ripple into a mess Speed is table stakes. The goal is a site your non-tech friend can keep editing without calling you.

I guess that's one way to use us.🤷

@bobbyhansenjr @Ash_uxi 💯 Websites are always an easy thing to ignore (mostly 'cause they're a pain to deal with). Feels better to just tweet a lot.

@BuildWithKite @Ash_uxi This is painfully accurate. The best operators I know have websites from 2019 and inboxes from hell — because they're heads-down serving clients. Marketing gets sacrificed first when capacity runs out.

The worst designers I know have the best portfolios. The best designers I know are too busy shipping product to update theirs.

@aliszu The line between "polished" and "exhausting" is thinner than most designers think.

i hate when websites are over-animated.

@SahilBloom Huge problem. If your target user is a wedding planner or a personal trainer, "agentic autonomous workflow" means nothing. You have to start from what they actually care about.

I’ve gotten a lot of messages that say something like: “I’m building this, check it out here [XXX]” Then I click on the website and there are 10 acronyms I don’t know and all sorts of technical jargon. That won’t work. This needs to be Feynman’d. Explain it to a 5 year old.

The opportunity to onboard "normal people" to the latest AI is much bigger than I originally thought. Honestly, $100k+ per month feels low. In a high income city, it could be a $10m+ business. To validate it, I tried to stand up an AI Assistant by myself (as a tech novice). It was painful. Here's what I did: 0. Phoned a tech friend to get basic steps 1. Bought a Mac Mini 2. Created a Claude Developer Account 3a. Factory reset old iPhone 3b. Created a new phone line for iPhone 4. Created a new email address 5. Created a new iCloud account 6. Used EasyClaw for setup That took me about six hours, but I had a functional AI assistant by the end of it. It was fun feeling like an idiot. I like being an embarrassing beginner. A bunch of pain points to solve (for anyone who wants to build in this space): - I had no idea what I needed. I called a friend and annoyed him for an hour to figure that out in the first place. People don't know what they don't know. - I don't know what "Terminal" is and had never used it. Running commands there was totally foreign to me and I made dumb mistakes (like thinking it wasn't working because I was typing my password and it wasn't showing). - I really wanted to understand security and how to keep this new unit completely walled off from my other systems. It took me a while to make sure I was doing all of that properly and how to maintain that integrity going forward. - I had no understanding of tokens, usage limits, and how to think about that usage going forward. - Connections and integrations of tools (like iMessage) were not intuitive at all. - No understanding of best practices for prompting, training, etc. The ongoing improvements would be great as a recurring stream after the initial deployment. Those are just my initial reactions off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll have more as I continue to play with it. P.S. We're definitely living in the future. I got my AI Assistant to text my wife that I was coming down for dinner. She rolled her eyes at me when I got downstairs. THE FUTURE PEOPLE!

This is the future and this is Kite.ai’s goal. Manage all your websites through AI. No bloated CMS required.

What does a great website for a children's illustrator look like? How about Exhibit A.

@ammybuilds That design is 🤌. Animations smooth like butter too.

This might be the best website I’ve seen all week. humbleops.com

@maxhertan Building a website was always going to get cheaper. The part that still costs $15k is someone keeping it updated, optimized, and not slowly falling apart. That's the next thing worth solving.

Designers charging $15k for a website are about to have a tough year. This was (almost) 1 prompt.

@garrytan The person with the taste should be the person holding the tool. But do those people want to babysit their creations forever? Or is that a better job for agents too?

I am sorry to admit I have spent almost a decade in "manager schedule" so I couldn't REALLY code that much. But in the last month it's been an awakening. I I love coding. I love coding WITH LLMs. I love making agentic software. Software and all of work will never be the same.

People have asked me about what I rebuilt again with Claude Code and tbh I built something similar to Posterous that I can't wait to share with you. But the astonishing thing is how FAST it happened and how I could do it nights/weekends in a few weeks. (85K LOC, 35% test code)

@gregisenberg Building landing pages and SEO pages is a great use case for agents. But what about agents that keep optimizing them after they’re live?

you've probably heard of "vibe marketing" but you think it's just a buzz word i get it but in 58 mins, you'll learn how to use AI agents to go from 0 to market research, landing pages, lead magnets, video ads, seo pages and more all inside claude code using skills/MCPs

@s43stha Clean demo. Output looks solid, too. Congrats on the launch. 🪁

@raakeshvn Rage Mode 😂 How else does anything ship? 🪁

Vibe coded a product over the weekend - stayawake.dev. Built a minimalistic utility app for developers: Pomodoro, Tasks, and a Rage Mode (great for stress relief 😄). More features planned in the coming days. Would love feedback. #BuildInPublic #VibeCoding

@uiwithjay Super clean. Wonder, do the illustrations on those bottom cards carry the idea without the text? Slick either way, though. 🪁

Trying a different approach. Solutions section exploration for a client website. Thoughts ?

@caruso72 That Obsidian cover looks rad. Your inking on the DC story too. Congrats on getting it live! 🪁

My new portfolio site is LIVE! Please check it out if you have the time, I could really use some feedback. Thanks! caruso84747292.wixsite.com/carusoillustra…

Is it a conflict of interest if it's also just a really good site? Asking for a coworker.