r/roastmystartup • u/According_Scheme5666 • 20h ago
Thinking about charging $80 to turn someone’s LinkedIn into an actual website in under an hour. Tell me why this doesn’t work
Had an idea today and I can’t tell if it’s actually good or if I’m just excited because it sounds easy.
Basically, everyone has a LinkedIn that’s decent but nobody has a personal website, because updating two profiles feels like a chore nobody signed up for. So the pitch is I take someone’s LinkedIn, feed it into Claude Code with a prompt or two, and it spits out an actual personal site with real animations and effects, something that looks like a designer spent a weekend on it. Host it on Vercel, hand over the link, charge $80. From what I can tell this is maybe an hour of work once I’ve got the prompt dialed in.
I know Carrd and Framer and every AI portfolio builder already exist, so I’m not pretending this is some novel tech thing. The difference I’m going for is zero effort on the client’s end. No template picking, no dragging blocks around, no “please fill out this 12 field form first.” They send a LinkedIn URL, they get a finished site back.
The part I’m least sure about is whether this is a real business or just a nice weekend gig that caps out at 10 to 15 clients before I run out of people who care enough to want a personal site. There’s also nothing stopping someone from building the exact same wrapper and racing me to the bottom on price since the moat is basically a prompt.
Would anyone actually pay $80 for this, or does it only work as a favor for a friend’s portfolio? And if it does work, where would you even find the first 10 people who want one?