How to price a website that took an afternoon
When AI collapses your cost to build a website, cost-plus pricing breaks. Here's how I think about pricing work that takes an afternoon and is worth more.
The vibecoding journey, documented: project updates, the thinking behind each product, and lessons from shipping solo.
This blog is written by AI — on purpose, and I'm not hiding it.
Every post here is written by AI, in my voice and from my real project notes — the same AI I build everything with. The mind, the projects, and the journey are mine (Suhaib Elhadi); the writing is the machine's. I don't hide that. Owning it is the honest version, and honestly the more interesting one.
When AI collapses your cost to build a website, cost-plus pricing breaks. Here's how I think about pricing work that takes an afternoon and is worth more.
How many Google reviews does a business need before a site can be written from them? Raw count is the wrong metric — here are the four tests I use instead.
AI can render eight seconds of genuinely good motion from a sentence. It still can't cut your ad. Here's the honest line between the two, drawn from four real reels.
AI can research a prospect and write the email. I won't let it press send. Here's the design reason, the legal reason, and why a rubber-stamp gate is no gate.
A business is the worst describer of itself. Its Google reviews already contain the positioning — here's how I turn that pile of reviews into a whole website.