Switching
MightyBuilder specializes in websites.
WordPress, Squarespace and Wix are built from themes and plugins. General AI app builders give you the controls needed to run software. MightyBuilder writes a website without either layer.
Pages written for your site
Publishing is built in
Keep your domain
Coming from WordPress, Squarespace or Wix
Templates limit the changes you can make.
Every one of them hands you a box of pre-made parts. The names differ (themes, templates, blocks, widgets, sections, apps, plugins), but the deal is identical: you get a set of things somebody built in advance, and your website is whatever you can arrange out of them.
Inside the set
Genuinely easy.
Drag the thing where you want it, put your words in, change the colour. This is what those products are good at, which is why so many people start there.
One inch outside it
A different job entirely.
Search for a plugin. Read the reviews. Pay for it. Find it nearly does it. Search for another. Ask on a forum. Get told to edit the code. Decide it does not matter that much after all, and quietly change what you wanted to fit what the thing can do.
The real cost is learning to want what the tool already does.
The things people ask for
The requests that end in a support forum.
Ordinary requests that end in a plugin search somewhere else. Here they are a sentence.
“Just this one page is different”
A landing page with no menu, or an about page laid out unlike anything else on the site. Themes are consistent by design, which is exactly the problem when you need one page not to be.
“Put the opening hours in a proper table”
With the bank holidays marked, and the same table in the footer of every page, and one place to change it when the hours change.
“Make it look like the brochure”
Give MightyBuilder the brochure as a reference and ask the site to match its design.
“Move that above this, on phones only”
The photograph first on a laptop and the price first on a phone. Reordering by screen size is a developer job nearly everywhere.
“Every page needs this bit, except two”
A notice, a phone number, a seasonal banner. Adding it everywhere is easy; adding it everywhere except two pages is where most builders start to fight you.
“Take the whole thing somewhere else”
Apply a rebrand, new colour or different feel to the existing site and its content.
What you are actually leaving
MightyBuilder handles the software behind the site.
Keeping software up to date
A self-hosted site can include a core system, a theme and many separately versioned plugins. MightyBuilder manages the software that serves the site.
Paying for the site in pieces
Hosting, themes, page builders, forms and SEO tools can each carry a separate charge elsewhere. MightyBuilder’s full price list covers Free, Pro and credits on one page.
Making it fast afterwards
MightyBuilder builds pages at publish time, serves them from the edge and prepares responsive images automatically.
The half-finished feeling
Most sites are a template that was never quite bent into shape. Starting from a description rather than a layout is the difference between a site that fits and a site that fits well enough.
The same request, both ways
“We’re doing Christmas hampers this year.”
This comparison follows the ordinary steps for adding a seasonal product page in each tool.
Where you are now
- 1. Look for a section that shows three items with prices. Find one that shows four.
- 2. Search for a plugin. Read the reviews. Two are abandoned, one is $59 a year.
- 3. Install it. It does not match the rest of the site.
- 4. Find the setting that controls the spacing. There isn’t one.
- 5. Email the person who built it. Wait. Get a quote.
- 6. Decide three hampers is fine after all.
A fortnight, and the page you settled for.
Here
- 1. Type it: “Add a Christmas hampers page: four hampers, prices, and a photograph of each. Put it in the menu before Find us.”
- 2. Look at what it made.
- 3. “Make the second one stand out, it’s the popular one.”
- 4. Press Publish.
An afternoon, and the page you actually wanted.
And in January: “Take the hampers page down and put it back in November.” Which is a sentence too.
Coming from an AI app builder
MightyBuilder is for websites, while Lovable and Replit are general software builders.
General app builders need controls for databases, deployments and integrations. MightyBuilder has a fixed place for pages, publishing, images and domains because it only builds websites.
Why app builders need larger dashboards
General app builders need controls for databases, environments, deployments, keys, integrations and logs because their projects can be software. A website uses a smaller set of controls.
A dashboard made only for websites
The dashboard is organized around pages, shared blocks, design, pictures, domains and publishing because every project is a website.
Finished web pages
Software is sent to a visitor’s browser and assembled there while they wait. Your pages here are written out in full the moment you publish and handed over finished, which is why they arrive fast on a phone in a car park, and why a search engine can read one without running anything first.
Publishing has one button
One button checks and publishes the pending changes, lists what went live and keeps the version available to restore.
Website-specific defaults
Routine website work can be automatic.
Because every project is a website, MightyBuilder can generate redirects, link previews, search details and image formats automatically.
Addresses look after themselves
Rename a page and the old address forwards to the new one permanently, in the same release as the rename itself. Nobody has to know what a redirect is, or find out the hard way six weeks later.
The share preview is already right
Paste a link into WhatsApp or a group chat and the picture, the headline and the description are correct, because they are made from the page itself rather than typed in somewhere and forgotten.
Search details generated from the pages
The sitemap, canonical addresses and structured data a search engine wants are built from what your pages already say, with no plugin or checklist to maintain.
Photographs are handled
A picture from your phone is resized and converted into the formats each browser needs.
Project fit
Use an app builder when you are building software.
MightyBuilder is for sites people read. Projects with accounts, databases or payments need a general app builder.
Build it there
- People sign in, and there are accounts to keep.
- Your customers’ information lives in a database.
- Money is taken on the site itself.
- It is something people use rather than read.
- It is an internal tool for the people who work with you.
Build it here
- Pages that say who you are, what you do and how to reach you.
- A phone that rings, and with Pro, an inbox with enquiries in it.
- Something you will change by asking, for years, without a developer.
- Something that must not be slow on a phone with one bar.
Plenty of people end up with both, and that is a perfectly good answer: the website here, and the thing that does the job built somewhere it belongs. They are different jobs and they want different tools.
Moving across
Keep the old site live while you build the new one.
Leave the old site up
Do not cancel anything. Your current site carries on serving customers the entire time.
Build here on a free address
Every site starts on mightybuilder.site, live and shareable. Describe what you want, or point the AI at your existing site and let it read it.
Look at it properly
Send the free address to somebody whose opinion you trust, then request changes in chat.
Go Pro, then cancel
When you are happy, choose Pro and point your domain here. Cancel the old subscription after the domain is working.
Questions about moving
Can you import my existing site?
Point the AI at your existing site and it will read the pages, work from what is there and build the new site around what you do rather than carrying across the old theme. Your current site stays untouched while you compare them.
What happens to my domain and my search rankings?
Keep the domain at your current registrar and connect it with Pro. Preserve the addresses of important pages where possible; MightyBuilder creates a permanent forward for any page that must move.
How long does it take?
An evening for a small site. Two sentences gets you a first version of every page; the rest is telling it what to change, which is conversation rather than construction.
Do I need to cancel my old subscription first?
Keep the old site live while you build and review the new one on its free address. Your first site includes credits to start, and you can do this before entering a card. Choose Pro when you are ready to connect the domain, then cancel the old subscription.
I paid a developer for my current site. Is this a step down?
Ask MightyBuilder for the design and content you need. A developer can still open the site CSS, JavaScript, head and metadata directly, while routine content and layout changes can be requested in chat.
I made something with an AI app builder. Can I move it across?
MightyBuilder imports the content and intent by reading the existing project, then writes new website pages from them. It does not transfer the original project code.
What if I try it and hate it?
Your old site stays up and your domain never moves while you try it. Build and publish the new version on a MightyBuilder address with the credits included for your first site, then go Pro only when you are ready to connect your domain or add a form.