codedesign.app

It's promising but a lot of bugs

UPDATED Aug 16th: I'm hitting quite a few bugs. I'd say this is beta quality software, at least if you are trying to host the site elsewhere.I generated a couple of SaaS website landing pages using the free plan. The first was very good. The second made a terrible choice of hero image. And using the document editor I couldn't work out how to change or remove it! The document editor helps to gloss over HTML and CSS but it's quite glitchy and is the main thing that needs work. When moving elements the left margin is often lost and that stops them centering. The user interface in general needs some work (e.g. tooltips that just restate the same thing the button says, unclear consequences when you click something, etc).But I like CodeDesign.ai and signed up for the 3 websites lifetime plan because I need to export the generated sites to host elsewhere. And I wanted to see what the Pro AI could do because the free one was already producing good results very quickly.If you give the AI (Gemini) a reasonable prompt about your desired site, it does a good job of turning that into marketing copy and placing it appropriately within the site. CodeDesign has a good selection of templates and it uses one of those to slot copy and images into.It does more than just remixing the words in your prompt. I had quite a rich prompt in the 750 characters and it managed to pick out the more impactful points and feature them, while discarding the unimpactful points I wanted to make as a programmer.The paid-for Pro AI did a really poor job the first time I generated a site. But I noticed a button to regenerate. The second was also poor and I thought the free AI did better. But on the third attempt the Pro AI absolutely nailed it. It mocked up some thought leadership articles on the homepage that are so good I should probably write them!It's still AI, so there are hallucinations. The copyright line was written for the year 2066. It inserted a section (that looks great!) entitled "Real Results, Real People" along with a bunch of fake reviews from fake people that I felt really uncomfortable about including on a pre-launch product. But if you have those reviews for real, you can just copy them in over the generated copy.You can generate extra pages or create them yourself. And you can ask the AI to rewrite some of your copy. But once the site has been generated and you've accepted it (possibly unintentionally), there is limited scope for radical change. It would be great to be able to tell the AI "make the tone more upbeat" or "choose images with more people in them" across the whole site. But it seems you can only change individual elements after generation.Site generation is a bit like having a creative agency give you a few mockups and being able to go with the one you like. Very quick and easy. My top tip is look for that "Regenerate" button. It keeps a history so you can compare designs BUT the moment you rate a design as Good you're locked in and the history is gone - another example in the UI of unclear consequences.

Date of experience: Jul 28, 2025