Writing · AI / Automation / Tech
A year ago, I paid $5,500 to have a website built for one of my properties. Two days ago, I built a better one myself. It costs $10.46 a year.
That's the domain. The hosting is free. The build took a day and a half.
I've been writing for years and couldn't remember half of it. So I downloaded every post and article, pointed Claude Code at it, and now there's kendoble.com. It pulls my new writing every week, sorts it by topic, and updates itself. Somebody can land on it and find the exact thing I wrote about pricing or leasing in about ten seconds.
I'll keep it honest. This one's a content site. A commercial property site with tenant logins, payments, and a CRM behind it costs more to run, and it should. But $5,500 for something close to a template, plus $650 a year to host it, is a huge markup.
It also wasn't a one-shot prompt. I fixed what broke and redid the parts that came out wrong. Anybody who tells you AI nails it the first time is selling something.
Could I have hired someone to build this one instead? Sure. In 2026, they'd point the same AI at it that I did, then hand me a bill with a couple extra zeros on it.
I figured it might not be that hard. It wasn't.
kendoble.com, if you want to poke at it.