The latest articles on DEV Community by Rodrigo Ferreira (@rodrigosyko). https://dev.to/rodrigosyko https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4216421%2F98e413b7-b54c-49fd-b850-3fc21fd10d7d.png https://dev.to/rodrigosyko en Rodrigo Ferreira Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:46:19 +0000 https://dev.to/rodrigosyko/i-built-a-website-that-anyone-can-take-over-and-an-ai-rebuilds-it-from-their-prompt-2jlb https://dev.to/rodrigosyko/i-built-a-website-that-anyone-can-take-over-and-an-ai-rebuilds-it-from-their-prompt-2jlb <p>Last night I shipped a weird little experiment: <a href="https://hijackthe.site" rel="noopener noreferrer">hijackthe.site</a>.</p> <p>The rules are simple. You pay $1, write a prompt, and an AI regenerates the entire site into whatever you described. The next person pays $2 and replaces you. Then $3, $4, and so on.</p> <p>Nothing gets deleted. Every takeover is stored as a numbered version, so there's a public <a href="https://hijackthe.site/history" rel="noopener noreferrer">history</a> and a <a href="https://hijackthe.site/timelapse" rel="noopener noreferrer">timelapse</a> of everything the site has been.</p> <h2> A few things I found fun to build </h2> <ul> <li> <strong>Immutable versions.</strong> Each hijack is saved as its own version (<code>/v/{n}</code>, <code>/site/{n}</code>), so the history and timelapse just replay them.</li> <li> <strong>Per-version share images.</strong> Every version gets its own OG image, so a shared link shows whatever the site currently is.</li> <li> <strong>A tiny public state endpoint.</strong> <code>/api/state</code> returns the current price, owner and how many people are on the page.</li> </ul> <h2> Update: the first hijack happened </h2> <p>A few hours after launch, someone named CB paid $1 and turned my entire site into a landing page for their startup, Howly.io (a HubSpot visualizer). Honestly the smartest $1 ad buy I've seen. Now it costs $2 to take it from them, and their version stays in the history forever.</p> <p>The parts I'm still thinking about: how to sandbox AI-generated pages safely, and whether it's better to moderate the prompt before generating or the output after. If you've dealt with either, I'd love to hear how you'd do it.</p> <p>And if you take it over, I want to see what you turn it into.</p> showdev webdev ai sideprojects