Export GoDaddy AI Website Builder to HTML

GoDaddy's AI website builder promises a site in minutes. It delivers, but with caveats worth understanding.

Here's how it works. You start by telling GoDaddy about your business. Name, industry, location, what you do. The AI uses this to make decisions.

It picks a template based on your industry. Restaurant? You get a food-themed layout. Lawyer? Professional and serious. Photographer? Image-heavy design. Reasonable matches, nothing revolutionary.

Then comes the content generation. The AI writes headlines, about text, service descriptions. It's... fine. Generic but grammatically correct. 'Welcome to [Business Name], your trusted partner for [Service].' You've read this copy a thousand times.

Images come from stock photo libraries. Related to your industry but obviously stock. A fake team photo, generic office shots, placeholder products. You'll replace these with real photos, hopefully you have some.

The whole process takes maybe 10 minutes of answering questions. At the end, you've got a complete multi-page site. Home, About, Services, Contact. All filled in, all functioning.

Is it good? It's a starting point. Publishable in a pinch if you're desperate. But the generic content and stock images scream 'template site.' Your competitors probably generated similar pages.

The value is in what you do next. Use the AI output as a foundation. Replace every stock image with your own photos. Rewrite the copy to sound like you, not a business-speak generator. Add specific details about what you actually do.

Where the AI genuinly helps: site structure. It creates reasonable page hierarchy and navigation. Sections are laid out logically. For someone starting from absolute zero, this scaffolding saves time.

Where it falls short: personality. AI can't capture your brand voice. It doesn't know your story, your unique approach, why customers should pick you over the other guy. That part's still on you.

Compare to doing it manually: the AI saves maybe 2-3 hours of initial setup. You'd spend that time picking a template, creating pages, writing placeholder text. The AI frontloads that work.

But you'll spend time customizing either way. Nobody should publish AI-generated content as-is. Google's seen it before. Your visitors will find it forgettable.

One more consideration, you're still paying GoDaddy's monthly fees. The AI doesn't change that. $10-25/month forever. If the speed of AI setup appeals to you but the pricing doesn't, plenty of other builders offer similar AI features. Or skip builders entirely and go static.