SiteClaw: Why I Built an AI That Builds Websites

The origin story of SiteClaw — and why the first version was terrible, the second version was worse, and the third one might actually work.

SiteClaw started as a joke.

Version one: hubris

The first version was essentially a fancy template system.

So I swung the other way.

The shift that made SiteClaw work was treating the AI not as a generator but as a builder.