Vibe coding has made building a website easy, and the cost is down to a few tens of thousands of won. An essay on turning a distinctive website of your own into the stage that shows who you are, now that AI can build almost anything you imagine.
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2026. While tinkering with this blog again today, a thought suddenly hit me. When did building a website become this easy? And if it is this easy now, what will websites be for? Here is where that thought led me.
I never expected building a website to get this easy
Only a few years ago, a website meant hiring a developer or wrestling with WordPress themes and plugins for ages. For anyone who did not know code, it was always a high wall.
Not anymore. You describe the page you want, AI writes the code, and you fix what you do not like by saying it again. People now call this vibe coding. The fact that I, not a developer, am building this blog by talking with AI is proof enough. I wrote about that journey in my switch from WordPress to vibe coding.
Of course, building something and polishing it are different stories. Some parts, such as connecting a domain or setting up email, I still had to understand myself. Even so, the barrier to getting started has clearly dropped.
A few tens of thousands of won was enough
The cost is far lower than I expected. Reopening a calculation I made earlier, a domain, Cafe24's budget hosting plan (Cafe24 is a major Korean web hosting company) and SSL came to about 44,000 won in the first year and about 28,000 won a year after that (based on Cafe24's public prices on Oct 8, 2026, excluding AI subscription fees). Per month, that is less than a cup of coffee. The full breakdown is in How much does it cost to build a website with AI.
In an age when neither skills nor money is an excuse anymore, only one question remains: what will you put on it?
Your website becomes a stage that shows who you are
Social media is a place to show yourself too, but you are always decorating inside a frame the platform decided. Character limits, page layout and even the order of posts follow someone else's rules.
Your own website is different. What goes on the first screen, which colors and tone introduce you, which story comes first: you decide all of it, from start to finish. That is why I think websites will become more than a resume or a business card. They will be the most personal stage for building your own brand.
Thanks to AI, you can build almost anything you imagine
What amazes me most these days is that ideas that lived only in my head can now actually be built. A small calculator, a hobby log, a travel photo gallery, a page collecting the things I love. Things I would once have put off as "someday" now take shape in a few evening hours.
Where should all those creations live? I think the answer is your own website. A place to show off what you made, in the coolest and most personal way. Instead of scattering it across other people's platforms, you gather it in one place with your name on it.
So let's build a website that is truly yours
Today's conclusion is simple. Let's build a distinctive, original website of our own and use it to promote ourselves. Here are a few resolutions for me, and for anyone else about to start.
• Before borrowing someone else's template as is, decide on one thing that feels like you: a favorite color, a tone of voice, an interest.
• One page is enough at first: who you are, what you love and make, and how to get in touch.
• Give AI a direction instead of "make it pretty." I wrote about this in How to write direction that changes AI design results.
• Build a record rather than chasing completion. Add one post or one project at a time, and the site becomes your track record.
• Be careful with personal information. Do not post your home address or personal phone number, and handle passwords and payments yourself instead of leaving them to AI.
Wrapping up today
It does not have to be perfect. Your first site will be a little rough, and I still fix this blog almost every day. I think the process of fixing it is part of the story that shows who you are.
The more AI can build anything for us, the more choosing what to build and presenting it in your own way remains a human job. That is where I will stop for today, thinking about the joy of decorating that stage, one piece at a time.
