I Was Spending $600 a Month on AI Builders So I Went Back to WordPress
I like AI builders. I just stopped liking what they were costing me. After spending around $600 a month, I went back to WordPress without giving up AI.
I like AI builders. I just stopped liking what they were costing me. After spending around $600 a month, I went back to WordPress without giving up AI.
I build MLM websites for a living, which is exactly why I want you to pressure-test the business first. The four questions that decide whether the site ever pays for itself.
Stadia, Parse, Google Domains, the Twitter API. Every dead platform took businesses with it. What platform dependency actually costs, from someone it has cost repeatedly.
I got thousands of views on Reddit and almost no signups. That is when buyer intent keywords stopped being an SEO term and started being the thing I pay attention to.
Most idea validation tools answer one narrow question and stay silent on the one that kills the project. What actually works, and what I built after being caught too many times.
Finding no competitors can feel like you discovered an untouched market. Sometimes you did. Sometimes you found a problem nobody cares enough about to pay for.
I have spent enough money building first to appreciate cheap tests now. Here is how I would test an idea before putting real money into the website, app or product.
You can learn a lot about a business idea before you have customers. I have learned the expensive way which signals matter and which ones just make an idea feel better.
A score should not be a magic number telling you whether your idea will succeed. Here is why I built Reality Check to show the weaknesses behind the number.
Finding a competitor used to feel like bad news to me. Now I usually see it as evidence. The real question is whether you can find a reason for customers to choose you.