Build a website in 10 minutes: the minute-by-minute walkthrough
Ten minutes is genuinely enough to publish a real business website — if the AI does the building and you only make decisions. The split that works: 2 minutes to generate, 5 minutes to correct facts and prices by chat, 2 minutes for booking, 1 minute to publish. Here's the clock, minute by minute.
Key facts
- The trick is editing a finished draft, not building from a blank page. Generation does the first 90%.
- Decisions to make beforehand: your services, rough prices, and service area. Have them ready and 10 minutes is comfortable.
- Everything here is on the free plan — the 10 minutes costs $0.
Minutes 0–2 — Describe and generate
Sign up (30 seconds) and describe your business: what you do, where, and the feel you want. Example: "Eavestrough cleaning and repair in Barrie, trustworthy and no-nonsense." Webbys generates the complete site — layout, writing, colours, photos — in about two minutes.
Minutes 2–5 — Fix the facts by chatting
Read the draft like a customer would and correct anything the AI couldn't know: "our prices start at $120," "we cover Barrie, Innisfil and Orillia," "we're open Saturdays." Each instruction updates the site in seconds.
Minutes 5–7 — Tune the look
Taste adjustments, one sentence each: "darker colours," "make the phone number huge," "swap the second photo for one showing a two-storey house." Stop when it looks like your business — perfect is a trap you can revisit tomorrow.
Minutes 7–9 — Set up booking
Booking is built in: set your services and available time slots. Customers pick a time on your site instead of playing phone tag with you at dinner time.
Minutes 9–10 — Publish and share
Hit publish. Your site is live at webbys.ca/s/your-business. Paste the link into your Google Business Profile and social bios while the kettle boils — that's where your first visitors come from.
What a 10-minute site does and doesn't get you
It gets you: a professional-looking, mobile-friendly page with your services, prices, area, photos, and working appointment booking — enough to look legitimate, get found for your name, and convert people you send to it.
It doesn't get you: first-page Google rankings overnight (that takes weeks-to-months of the site existing, plus reviews), your own domain (that's a paid-plan upgrade whenever you're ready), or copy that knows your best stories. Spend minutes 11–30 across the next week feeding the site real details — the jobs you're proudest of, the questions customers ask — and it compounds.
Why fast beats perfect for local businesses
Every week without a site, the customers who Google your name find nothing — or worse, find a competitor. A published 80% site collects those customers immediately, and chat editing means the remaining 20% is a series of one-sentence fixes over coffee, not a project. The businesses that win online locally aren't the ones with the fanciest sites; they're the ones whose sites exist, answer questions, and take bookings.