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FOBIE.ai

Get a simple website up without hiring anyone

Five pages, your prices, your phone number, and something that does not look like 2009. This job is about getting it live this week and being able to change it yourself.

What a good result looks like

Use this to judge a demo. A tool that cannot do these is not doing the job, whatever it is called.

  • You can change the text and the phone number yourself, in a minute, without help.
  • It is fast on a phone, because that is where your customers are.
  • You own the domain and can take the content with you.
  • It handles the basics properly: contact form, maps, opening hours, and being findable.

What usually goes wrong

The things people find out after they have paid.

  • Ask, before you build: if you leave, what can you take? Some of these are a rental with no way out.
  • Generated sites can carry accessibility problems that are a legal risk in some sectors.
  • The cheap plan usually means their branding on your site.

3 tools that do this

How this list is ordered — and why money is not one of the reasons
  1. 1. How squarely the tool does this job. A tool built for this job comes before one that can be made to do it. A tool that needs wiring up comes last.
  2. 2. How much we actually know about it. A tool we have used ourselves comes before one we have only researched, which comes before one only a reader has written in about, which comes before one nobody has assessed. A tool low on this list is not bad. It is unknown.
  3. 3. How technical you need to be. Where the first two signals tie, the one a non-technical person can set up alone comes first. This site is for people who are not going to write code.
  4. 4. How recently we checked the listing. A listing we checked last month is worth more to you than one we checked last year, so it breaks the remaining ties. Listings we have never checked come last.

Nothing commercial appears on that list, and nothing commercial is given to the code that orders it. How we make money, and how you can check.

  1. Durable

    by Durable

    The fastest of the three to a live site, because it assumes much more about what you need.

    Built for thisListed, not reviewedNo setup help neededFree tier to try it

  2. Squarespace

    by Squarespace

    Better-looking defaults than most, at the cost of less freedom to rearrange things.

    Built for thisListed, not reviewedNo setup help needed

  3. Wix

    by Wix

    Generates a starting site from a few questions, and you can genuinely maintain it yourself afterwards.

    Built for thisListed, not reviewedNo setup help neededFree tier to try it

Reviews against this job

Listed, not reviewedIt is in the directory. Nobody here has assessed it yet.

Nobody here has assessed any of these tools against this job yet. The listings above describe what each one is sold to do and how squarely it fits — which is real information — but none of it is a verdict, and this page does not pretend otherwise.

Used one of these for this job? Tell us what happened — reader reports are published as reader reports, in your words, clearly labelled.

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