Solo, Not SmallOne-person businessWebsites with Claude
I built my business websites with Claude, with no developer.
You don't need a developer. You need a checklist.
I'm Bhavik Sarkhedi, and this site is one of them. I describe a page in plain English, Claude builds it from a template I locked, and nothing goes live until it passes ten checks and I say yes.
The short answer
Building is the easy part. Checking is the job.
Claude can write a good page in minutes. What it can't know, unless you tell it, is whether Google can read that page, whether it works on a phone, and whether it repeats a site you already have. So my part of the web developer's job is a list of checks, and I never skip it.
It is one of the thirteen jobs in a one-person business, and the one most solopreneurs put off for a year.
Only on this page
The checks and the failures below are from my own sites, this one included. The numbers are from my notes, dated November 2026.
- 3 locked templates
- 10 checks before a page is live
- Design scored out of 16
- Every publish needs my yes
The checklist
Ten checks before a page goes live.
0 / 10
Tick what your site already passes
The numbers
What one person shipped in one month.
- 240new pages went live across my sites in four rounds in November 2026.
- 2,745addresses were tested on 14 November 2026. All 2,745 opened correctly.
- 1 of 12pages on this site had been read by Google on the same day. The checks told me that too.
The honest part
What broke, and the rule each failure left behind.
| What broke | What it cost | The rule I added |
|---|---|---|
| One site's list for Google held 18,814 addresses, and every one sent Google to a second address. | Google read almost none of that site for weeks. | The shape of an address is decided once, in one setting, and every part of the build reads that setting. |
| I built several sites that said nearly the same thing. | Google picked one and showed only the homepage of the others. | One topic, one site. A new idea is checked against the sites I already own. |
| This site was live, correct and unread. | On 14 November 2026 Google had read one page of twelve. Nothing was broken. Nobody had asked. | Going live is the middle of the job. Asking Google to read the pages is the end. |
| The text on my designs was too small, more than once. | Pages that looked fine on my screen were hard to read on a phone. | Type sizes are written down as numbers, and every page is looked at at phone width. |
How it runs
From an idea to a live page, in five steps.
- 1
I write what the page is for.
One search it should answer, one reader, and what only I can say about it.
- 2
Claude builds it from a template.
My fonts, my colours, my page structure. It asks me questions before it writes any code.
- 3
The checks run.
Titles, addresses, links, the phone layout, the design score. Anything that fails is fixed before I see it.
- 4
I look at pictures of the page.
One at laptop width, one at phone width. Then I say yes, or I say what to change.
- 5
It goes live, and gets checked again.
The live page is opened and compared with what was built. Only then is it done.
Questions
About building a website without a developer.
Can Claude build a website without coding?
Yes. I describe the page in plain English and Claude writes the code. This site was built that way, and I have never hired a developer for it.
How long does it take?
A simple site for a one-person business can be live in a weekend. The checks take longer than the building, and they are the part that matters.
Where do your sites live?
On ordinary hosting, the kind a small business owner already pays for. The files are plain web pages, so they load fast and cost little to keep.
Will Google find my site on its own?
Slowly, if at all. On 14 November 2026 Google had read one of the twelve pages on this site. Ask Google to read your pages, and link every page from a strong one.
Do I need a designer?
I start from a template and then score the result out of 16 before it goes live. A solopreneur with taste and a checklist gets further than most people expect.
What is Solo, Not Small?
My initiative for solopreneurs and small business owners. In each video lesson I do one real job inside Claude, start to finish, and hand you the system file so Claude does that job your way.
- My exact AI setupSix files and folders that do thirteen jobs.
- From 75 people to oneWhat replaced the team I hired.
- My proposal deskA proposal that leaves the same day.
- All thirteen jobsThe one-person business, job by job.
Solo founders start here: what Solo, Not Small does for you. I also give this as a talk: AI talks for solopreneurs. More on the About page.