I built an AI website builder because watching my friend pay Squarespace forever broke my brain
A few months ago I was helping my friend migrate her business site off Squarespace because she was paying $200/year for something she'd opened twice in three years. That was the third friend or family member I'd done this for. I realised the problem isn't the tools, it's the pricing model. Hosting and AI inference both got dramatically cheaper, but website builders never re-priced.
So I built kwaku. You describe what you want in a sentence ("portfolio for a Lagos photographer, dark mode, contact form that emails me"), the AI agent writes the whole site, and you own it forever for $30 once. No monthly. You can export the files and leave whenever.
It scales beyond static sites too. If you ask for something that needs a backend ("add comments visitors can post", "build me a booking system with an admin panel"), kwaku spins up a full Next.js + database app in its own container for you. Same pricing, same ownership.
Built solo. Live at https://kwaku.app/ Free to try, 25 edits, no card.