
Show HN: Dumped Wix, my AEC consultancy's storefront is now an AI EdgeI run a building design consultancy for homeowners and architects, not a SaaS firm. Honestly, I'm not going to claim we were trying to build some fantastic ‘anti-fragile alternative’ for the future… I just got tired of paying Wix $40 a month for a brochure no one read. The portfolio was static, the inquiries were generic, and every time a potential client asked about setback variances, I'd lose hours explaining the same thing. So last December, I told my wife I was killing the website. She thought I’d lost it. Maybe I had.The stack? It’s messy. We started on Netlify because it was cheap. Hit that stupid 10-second serverless timeout after a week when I started customizing the bot. The bot would just… freeze. Had to implement a clunky polling loop that felt like a band-aid. Eventually split the agent into 3 pieces just to keep it responsive:The Brain (Edge) figures out what you want, shoots a JSON signal to the browser. The Hands (Browser) runs the actual tool—like pulling a code referen
