Your first build, step by step.
The concrete walkthrough from clicking the button to copying your live URL into a DM. Read once, then go ship.
What you need before you start
- An idea you can write in one or two sentences.
- An email address (we send you a sign-in link).
- About ten minutes. The build takes ~6. The reading takes the rest.
The walkthrough
- step 01Open the create screen
Click Start a build from any page. Sign in with email if you have not yet. You land on a single big text box.
- step 02Write your one sentence
Be specific. Name the audience, the product or service, and the city or vertical if relevant.
- step 03Hit Ship
The page shows progress as Moonshift reads, plans, writes, and ships. You can leave the tab and come back.
- step 04Open the live link
When the build is done, a button appears. Click it. Your site opens in a new tab on a real URL.
- step 05Approve or skip the launch posts
Moonshift drafts short posts for X and LinkedIn. You can approve, edit, or skip them all.
- step 06Share the link
Drop it in your group chat, your DMs, your status. The first 10 readers are the most valuable signal you will get.
How long each part takes
What is happening while you wait
The build screen shows progress. Behind it, Moonshift is moving through these stages:
- 01Read your prompt~10sgives back
- Site type
- Audience guess
- Tone
- 02Plan the pages~30sgives back
- Page list
- Section order
- Headlines
- 03Pick the look~20sgives back
- Palette
- Typography
- Layout
- 04Write the site~3 to 5 mingives back
- Working code
- Working contact form
- 05Ship to a public URL~30sgives back
- Live URL
- SSL
If something looks off
- Wrong vibe. Use iterate. Tell it the tone you want in one line.
- Wrong audience. Rerun with a sharper sentence. Name the audience explicitly.
- Wrong feature. Iterate with one ask. Remove the gallery. Add a pricing section.
For anything else, see Troubleshooting.