Miles Gurule

I'm 15 and I sell $2,000 websites to local businesses by walking in with a mockup. This month I automated everything except the walking:

• Leads: 5,300 businesses from OpenStreetMap and the chamber directory, every website audited for problems an owner can check on their own phone.
• Mockups: Claude Opus designs a custom site from the business's real photos, critiques its own screenshots, and rebuilds. About 15 minutes each.
• The team: 4 Claude Code agents (director, lead scout, mockup maker, outreach writer) write me a brief each morning: who to visit, when, and what to say.

What surprised me, all measured:

1. 15% of "your website is down" leads loaded fine the next day. Now a site has to fail on two different days.
2. Half the "no website" businesses actually had one. Now that's a question I ask at the counter, not a claim.
3. Small SEO issues were stacking into top scores. Polish problems alone now can't make a lead "hot".
4. Running the mockup build at high effort made Opus think for 25 minutes and never write the page. Low effort plus a separate critique pass worked.

The rule I'm proudest of: the agents can't send anything. They only write drafts; I'm the one who walks in.

Builders doing local sales: what's your best walk-in opener?

This week I replaced a section of static feature cards on my site with a phone you can actually use: pick a plumber, restaurant or salon, then get a live quote, tap to order, or book a stylist. People now play with it instead of scrolling past.

Has anyone measured the difference between a "try it" demo and a features list on their own landing page?

I just closed my first $2,000 website deal, so here's what I've learned so far selling to local businesses in Franklin, TN:

1. Show, don't pitch. I offer a free mockup in 48 hours. Owners can't judge a proposal, but they can judge their own business on a phone.
2. Put a price on the site. $2,000 flat, right on the homepage. Small-business owners hate "contact us for pricing".
3. Find a real problem first. Before contacting anyone I check their current site: broken buttons, a 2018 copyright, no way to book or order. One specific detail beats any general pitch.
4. Walk in. Storefronts are easier in person than by email. Go at 2–4pm, never at lunch.

What's worked for you to land your first few clients?

I built <black-hole>, a web component that ray-traces a Schwarzschild black hole live in the browser. Light paths are integrated step by step (RK4), so the Einstein ring, the lensed accretion disk and the bent stars come out of the physics instead of being painted on.

• Drop-in: one script tag, then <black-hole>
• Disk colour comes from blackbody temperature plus Doppler beaming (the side moving toward you is brighter and bluer)
• Fixed pixel budget, so it stays smooth on Retina screens
• Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, MIT licensed

Demo: milesgurule-png.github.io/event-horizon Code: github.com/milesgurule-png/event-horizon

Built it with Claude Code. The hardest bug was the whole image rendering upside down from one sign in the camera's up vector. Feedback on performance on your machine is very welcome.