Thirteen hands-on guides

Guides to build a website or an app with AI, step by step

These guides to build a website or an app with AI start from the sentence you type and finish with a live site, or an app running on your phone. Each one gives the time it really takes, what to gather beforehand and the step where people usually lose time. None of them asks you to write code.

Which guide fits your project

Start from what your visitors need to do. A website is enough when people come to read, book or buy, and an app earns its place when they return every week from their phone. Four situations cover most requests, and if yours is missing, the closest guide still works because the steps barely change.

The guide to follow for your situation
Your situationThe guide to follow
You are starting out and want to present your businessBuild a small business website
You already sell and want to take payments onlineBuild an online store
Your current site looks dated and needs a rebuildRedesign your website
You want an app in both storesPublish to the App Store and Google Play

Guides to build a website or an app with AI, by family

The thirteen guides sit in three families: websites, apps, and projects that go further. Each card shows the time it really takes and the level it expects, and a guide marked "beginner" needs no technical knowledge.

1 to 2 h · beginner

Build a small business website, step by step

From a description of your business to a live site, with your hours, your prices and your town.

half a day · beginner

Build an online store

Catalog, cart, shipping and payments into your Stripe account, all set up in one tool.

30 min · beginner

Build a landing page that converts

One page with an offer, a price and a form, ready to share in a campaign.

2 to 3 h · beginner

Build a booking website

Online time slots, an optional deposit and a reminder sent before each appointment.

1 day · intermediate

Rebuild a site without losing your rankings

Keep the look of an existing site, rewrite its pages and redirect the old addresses.

1 day · beginner

Build an iPhone app without coding

The screens, a phone test by QR code, then a build sent to TestFlight on the Plus plan.

1 day · beginner

Build an Android app without coding

The same project, signed for Google Play and sent to the internal testing track.

1 to 2 h, excluding review · intermediate

Publish to the App Store and Google Play

Developer accounts, the store listing, closed testing and submission, excluding review time.

1 day · beginner

Build a nonprofit member app

Members, events and dues reminders, all run from a single project.

1 to 3 h · beginner

Build a clickable prototype from a document

A product brief attached to your request becomes a flow your testers can click through.

1 week · intermediate

Build a SaaS MVP with subscriptions

Member accounts, gated pages and a paid subscription going into your Stripe account.

3 h to 1 day · intermediate

Build an internal tool from your spreadsheets

An imported Excel file becomes a tool with lists, statuses and permissions for each person.

1 h · developer

Take the code back into your own editor

The project pushed to your GitHub repository, changed locally and sent back to Eqlo.

What to gather before you start

No guide on this page needs technical skill, yet every one of them moves faster when four things are ready. That groundwork often decides whether you finish in an hour or spend a full day.

A clear description of your business

Write down what you do, who you do it for and in which town, the way you would explain it on the phone. For an app, add the screens people open first and what they tap there. The more precise the request, the closer the first version gets to what you want.

Your prices, or at least ranges

This is what most often delays a launch: the site is ready, but nobody has settled the rates. Make that call before you begin.

Six to ten photos of your work

Photos taken on a phone beat stock images. Show finished jobs for a trade, products on the shelf for a shop, the dining room for a restaurant.

Access to your domain name

Note which registrar sold you the domain and keep the login handy. With those details, connecting it takes less than an hour.

Start with a sentence, the guide walks you through

Five free projects, no card required. Follow a guide from start to finish, or dive in and come back here at the step where you get stuck.