I've been wanting to build something with AI for a while now. Not just a wrapper around ChatGPT, but something that actually feels useful. So I built CrafticWeb — you describe a website, and it generates real HTML/CSS/JS for you. You can tweak it with follow-up prompts, edit the code directly, preview it live, and deploy it with one click.

It's live, it works, and I learned a ton building it. Here's the honest story.

The Idea

The core concept is simple. You type something like "a landing page for a coffee shop with a dark theme" and the app sends that to an AI model (DeepSeek via OpenRouter), gets back a full HTML document, and renders it in the browser instantly. You can keep chatting to refine it, open it in a Monaco editor to manually tweak things, and when you're happy — deploy it to a public URL.

I also added Google login, a credits system, and Stripe billing because I wanted to build something that felt like a real product, not just a weekend demo.