Posts, news and videos on building websites with AI, each with one line on why.

WebflowRelease21 Sept

MCP adds interactions, faster CMS access, and Webflow Cloud

WhyAn assistant can now add page interactions and deploy a Webflow Cloud app, which moves Webflow's MCP from a content tool to a build tool. Worth re-reading the Webflow entry with that in mind.

RankabilityReport18 Sept

LLMS.txt adoption research report

WhyMeasured, not argued: 9.3% of the top 1,000 domains serve an llms.txt, and the report says plainly that publishing one has not been shown to earn citations. The honest baseline for a file this site ships anyway.

VercelRelease17 Sept

Sub-second artifact deployments are now supported in Vercel CLI

by Melkey Moksyakov, Andrew Healey and Janos Szathmary

WhyA static page of up to ten HTML or Markdown files now deploys in under a second, no build step. That is the size of a landing page an assistant writes in one go, which is exactly who this is for.

VercelRelease16 Sept

Is Agentic now tailors its audit by site type

by Andrew Qu and Rich Haines

WhyVercel's free audit of whether agents can read and use your site now scores a docs site, a business site, an app and a shop against different checks. Run it on your own site before reading anything else about AEO.

LinkedInPost05 Sept

Where I think websites are heading: they start improving themselves

by Margus Veeber

WhyThe loop in five lines: get the data, assess, plan, a human decides, improve and store the learnings. Ploy sells the full version; the lighter one is a few agents and a morning list. The human step stays either way.

WebflowRelease02 Sept

Introducing Source by Webflow

WhyWebflow's answer to marketing teams that want to prompt a page into existence and still keep the design system, the approvals and the governance. Read it as Webflow's own map of where the builder is going.

TechCrunchNews20 Aug

Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses

by Sarah Perez

WhyA button you embed so readers can mark your site as a preferred source in Search, Discover and AI Mode. Small, but it is the first lever Google has handed a site owner since AI answers started eating clicks.

LinkedInPost16 Aug

5 things to do before you start building a new site with AI

by Margus Veeber

WhyMap the pages, settle the style on one page first, write the copy up front, gather the assets, and put it all in one context folder so the facts and the tone come out right. The prep that stops an AI build from spinning out.

YouTubeVideo30 Jul

Why Ploy.ai is more than another website tool feat. Bryant Chou – 60 MINUTES #1

by Noco Agency

WhyAn hour with the founder of Ploy, who also co-founded Webflow, on what a site that builds and runs itself is actually for. The clearest explanation of the agentic builder idea from the person betting on it.

XPost19 Jun

Bryant Chou co-founded Webflow. Now he's back in the current YC batch with Ploy

by Y Combinator

WhyY Combinator's own framing of Ploy: a site that connects to analytics, CRM and Search Console and optimises itself. The post links the Lightcone podcast episode where Chou explains the anti-slop bet.

Yahoo FinanceNews17 Jun

Ploy Raises $27M to Turn Your Company's Website Into Your Hardest-Working Employee

WhyThe launch announcement, with the numbers: $27M seed led by First Round and Y Combinator, and Hex and Clay named as early customers. Useful for knowing who is already trusting an agent with a marketing site.

FramerRelease16 Jun

AI agents for designing, updating, and improving sites

WhyFramer's agents edit the live project rather than generating a mockup, and every change lands on a branch you merge. The branching is the part to copy: it is how a builder lets an agent in without handing it the live site.