Author Builds Trip Website in Under 2 Hours Using ChatGPT, Paying $7.25 a Month to Host
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Updated · Business Insider · Aug 1
Author Builds Trip Website in Under 2 Hours Using ChatGPT, Paying $7.25 a Month to Host
3 articles · Updated · Business Insider · Aug 1
Summary
Under 2 hours after pasting Sam Altman’s prompt into ChatGPT, the author had a live trip-planning website with profiles, budget sharing, voting, date selection and task management.
9 minutes and 47 seconds after the request, ChatGPT produced three destination options, downloadable source code and an email draft, then walked the non-coder through Terminal, Python, GitHub and deployment.
The build used a $20-a-month ChatGPT Plus account on GPT-5.6 Sol; the author initially paid Render $7.25 a month for hosting before learning free options were available.
OpenAI said its Sites feature—now in public beta—lets Plus users create, edit, preview and host websites inside ChatGPT for free, and it was already enabled on the author’s account.
A later 14-minute update in Sites handled requested tweaks without manual coding, underscoring how 'vibe coding' can turn plain-language prompts into usable software for non-programmers.