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Start a web design agency.
Get paid $150+/mo per client.

That's revenue you collect — not a cost. Agencies charge $150 a month and up to build and maintain a client's website, and with AI doing the building, one person can run the whole thing. No code, no team, no subcontractors. Pick a niche, reach out to local businesses, and stack clients: ten is $1,500/mo, a hundred is $15,000/mo — and it climbs from there. Here's the exact playbook, free.

The money

$150+ a month, per client — and you keep it

$150/mo is what agencies already charge clients for full website support and updates — and most of it is profit. You collect it every month while spending only minutes per client. Land more clients, serve more niches, and charge more for bigger sites — and the recurring revenue stacks into thousands, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands a month. Your cost? A few dollars per site.

$150+/mo
what agencies charge per client for a site + updates
10 clients
= $1,500/mo recurring — part-time, from your laptop
100 clients
= $15,000/mo — and the ladder keeps climbing
~$5/site
your cost per site — nearly all the rest is profit
The playbook

Six steps from zero to your first client

No fluff. This is the whole thing. Work through it and you can land a paying client this month.

Pick a niche you know a little about

Nail salons, landscaping, construction, dentists, gyms, restaurants — pick one corner of the local market. Knowing the lingo and the pain points makes every pitch land harder.

Buy a domain

Grab a clean, professional domain for your agency. It costs about $12/year and instantly makes you look like a real business — because you are one.

Set up your Website Heroes account + your Anthropic key

Start the free trial, drop in your own Anthropic API key, and you're ready to build. No servers, no plugins, no maintenance — ever.

Build YOUR OWN agency site first

Use Website Heroes to build your agency's site before anyone else's. It's your practice rep, your portfolio, and living proof of what you can deliver — all in one.

Find local businesses with old, mediocre sites — and build them a demo

Drive around, search your niche, spot the dated, broken, mobile-unfriendly sites. Then build that business a fresh demo site, unprompted. This is your secret weapon.

Reach out, show the demo, and close them

Send the demo, explain the benefits and the ROI — more calls, more bookings, a site they're proud to share — and close them at around $150/mo. Seeing their own business reimagined sells it for you.

What you'll need

The whole shopping list fits on a sticky note

You don't need a team, an office, or a computer-science degree. You need a few cheap things and a few hours a week.

  • A domain — about $12/year for your agency.
  • An Anthropic API account — the AI that does the building.
  • A Website Heroes account — start on the free trial.
  • A few hours a week. That's it. Seriously.
https://websiteheroes.com/build
Watch: build a client site in under 5 minutes
Why now

AI just collapsed the cost of building websites

The thing that used to take a team a week now takes one person a few minutes. That gap is the opportunity — and it won't stay open forever.

The cost floor dropped

What an offshore team charged hundreds for, you now produce for a few dollars. The margin is yours to keep.

First movers win

The agencies that adopt AI first capture the local market while everyone else is still hand-coding and waiting on revisions.

Don't overthink it

You don't need a business plan or a logo or permission. Build one demo, send one message, land one client. Start.

Your move

Your agency could take its first client this month.

Everything you need is on the free trial. Build your demo, send your first pitch, and watch what one "yes" turns into.