UX designer tests 6 AI website auditors for $5 — same site scores 34, 59 and 73
noya1979 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A UX/UI designer with limited backend experience is building an AI website auditor on a $1,500 budget (day 3, $5 spent so far), documenting the journey on Reddit.
Key points:
- One module first: the product will eventually audit seven categories (UX, UI, copywriting, content, accessibility, SEO, marketing/conversion), but development starts with UX — the hardest to evaluate consistently. The prototype takes a URL, extracts real webpage evidence, uses AI to flag issues, and returns structured findings with evidence and recommendations, validated against the author's professional judgment and repeated runs.
- Competitor experiment: $5 spent testing six AI UX auditing platforms on the same three websites. One site scored 34, 59, and 73 out of 100 across three tools, with large discrepancies in findings, severity classifications, and recommendations.
- Takeaway: relying on an LLM's general impression of a page is unreliable — evidence extraction, contextual reasoning, and validation are essential.
- Product shape: URL → optional screenshots → analysis → prioritized recommendations; no forced accounts; free beta before affordable per-audit pricing.
Next step is building the first backend module and measuring consistency, accuracy, and processing cost before expanding to the other six categories.
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