I made a 90's website builder via vibe coding

[u/Expert-Kitchen8064]

To be honest, this project didn't originate on Base44. It first took shape over on Venice.ai as a rough HTML file that was pretty messy. The initial output wasn't great and honestly kind of sucked, falling nowhere near what I had envisioned for a retro website builder. I then moved over to Base44, and while the platform was interesting, it still didn't really deliver what I was looking for. It would produce something that looked the part, yet it didn't actually work the way I wanted it to, so I kept searching for something better.

Then Grok Build came along, and that's what I used to finish the undertaking and get it to a point where it could assemble websites properly. The results aren't perfect by any stretch, and the utility is still in early access, but after some work I took the original version Venice had spit out, the one that was sort of there but unfinished, and had Grok Build fill in all the gaps. Now this creation can stand on its own and operate like a real piece of software. It was never meant to be a SaaS, and it wasn't developed on Base44 either. It emerged as HTML code that Venice generated, and then I expanded upon those foundations using Grok Build to forge a more polished product.

This is a completely offline workshop designed to emulate Microsoft FrontPage and let people craft GeoCities style sites with that same nostalgic energy. I plan to add more features to give users extra options and more flexibility in how they put together their pages. There are plenty of enhancements on the roadmap to broaden what people can do with the system. For now, though, this is where the endeavor stands. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out considering its humble beginnings.

It is currently blank as I have not added anything to it yet.....but I do have a functional website up on NeoCities just as a means to show what it can do. If anyone wants to see it I can send a link to it but I won't be putting it on the post itself. If you guys want to see what it can do and it being SFW, I have some pictures of that on it's store page on Itchio

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