Designer builds AI website UX auditor on $1,500 budget, $7 spent so far
noya1979 · reddit · 2026-11-03
A UX/UI designer with no technical cofounder is building an AI-powered website auditor on a CA$1,500 budget, using ChatGPT to help with the backend. The goal: evidence-backed UX findings from a structured framework, not generic recommendations.
Progress so far:
- Firecrawl: extracts content/HTML but misses interactive experience
- Playwright: set up locally for JS navigation, screenshots, page info
- Structured page data collected to feed the model alongside screenshots and business context
Design: three inputs — URL, user-provided full-page screenshot, and a short business description. The open challenge is giving the model enough reliable context without overwhelming it or inflating token costs. Next step: combine a self-developed UX evaluation framework with the collected evidence.
Budget: CA$1,500 total, $7 spent, $0 infrastructure. Author asks whether to preprocess/filter evidence before passing to an LLM or let it work on raw data.
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