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How to build a website from scratch without using AI or Shopify

Building a website from scratch as a beginner involves choosing between platforms like Shopify or WordPress with very little initial knowledge, which easily leads to getting stuck for hours. This frustration is amplified by wanting to do everything organically rather than relying on automated tools or AI shortcuts to achieve a real entrepreneurial dream.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Using AI websites or automated dropshipping formats
  2. 2
    Learning the basics of HTML and CSS to better leverage AI tools
  3. 3
    Joining online courses for dropshipping or web setup
  4. 4
    Using AI tools like Antigravity and Cursor to build academic project websites

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/shopify1 person · September 2026

“I'm new to Shopify and I'm having a lot of issues with getting my website set up.”source ↗

“I have had multiple dilemmas with myself on how I don't want to use AI. How I want to do this organically because entrepreneurship is a real dream of mine.”source ↗

“When you were first starting to learn website building, where did you go and how did you learn it?”source ↗

Crafty-Opening-2592 · r/shopify · 18 upvotes

“it is very easy to get frustrated with the amount of people that get sales quickly, the amount of people that get their things set up quickly when I have been stuck in the same spot for about an hour”source ↗

Crafty-Opening-2592 · r/shopify · 1 upvotes
r/Wordpress1 person · September 2026

“What should i do any advise for beginner using wp? i dont have any knowledge about it btw”source ↗

Mazieka · r/Wordpress

Where this came up

r/Wordpressr/shopifybeginnersentrepreneurshipweb developmentwebsite setupwordpress

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