So, I’ve been interested in building religious websites for a while, and I've been thinking about creating a Christian website that publishes AI-generated posts and images. Think of it as an experiment to see if this works, and also to further the word of the Lord.
When I started thinking about the tech stack for the website, there were a lot of options. There are lots of CMS platforms out there, and I didn't really know which to use. I had previously tried a self-hosted Ghost CMS for another religious website I built, sacredhindu.com, but I didn't want the headache of managing the CMS this time around. After looking around for a while, I settled on Contentful; their API is easy to use and you can build practically anything on top of it.
For the frontend, I decided on Next.js with a 4chan-style theme. I really liked the beige color scheme for the site—honestly, it looks great, and the same goes for the font.
Now, onto the articles. I used Flikover to research the necessary keywords for asbible.com, looking for trending topics related to Christianity. I exported all those topics and keywords and started generating articles around them.
It's been about a year, and honestly, the traction isn't quite up to the mark—only about 15–20 visitors a day, which isn't a lot. However, 100% of the traffic is organic. I had been using OpenAI's o3-mini for the articles, but I've recently switched to Minimax 3 for that, since I already have a subscription for other projects. For images, I use bfl.ai; it's cheap enough for me, though I haven't customized it much yet.
Regarding the traffic, it's been stuck at around 15–20 visitors a day for the past six months, which isn't ideal, tbh. The average engagement time is around 2 minutes, though, which is good. It also probably means bots from China and Singapore aren't just scraping my website. I use Cloudflare and could block the AI bots, but I haven't done it yet.
That's about it for now. I'll post an update when I cross 100 users per day—that's the milestone I'm aiming for, though I don't really know if it's going to happen.
Oh, and about the domain, asbible.com: I thought of a lot of domain names, but eventually settled on this one because it sounds like "as in Bible," which fits perfectly with the theme of the website.
Good day!
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