Robyn Anderson explains why you should define your brand before building an AI website. Use Manus for competitor research, ChatGPT to nail your brand colors and look, and tools like Nanobanana or Ideogram to generate logos and assets.
We have to have a talk. I know you're really excited that you can build your own website with AI, but all of these sites are starting to look exactly the same. Here are three tools that you should use before you go into any vibe coding project. I know you guys are getting sick of me, but it's Manus. You have to go to Manus and you have to ask it to do research on your competitors and have it create an entire competitive landscape and marketing strategy for you. Ask it to create some top of funnel content ideas as well as identify your Personas. Then it's just good old chatgpt. Ask it to help you create a brand look and feel with hex colors. Go ahead and take the description and you can upload those into nanobanana and Gemini 3. Or you can use this fun site that I like called Ideogram. I made all of these logos in Ideogram just based on descriptions from ChatGPT and some of them are garbage, but some of them are great and I had a lot of fun doing it. Before you get in there and get all excited and supabased and lovable and all the things stop and wait a minute and create your brand. I'd love to hear about what you're building. Tell me in the comments what you're making and what platform you like to build it on.
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