What's worth checking before you pay
Paying for something before you can see it is a different kind of decision to buying something off a shelf. You're handing over money for a process you won't be present for, so it makes sense to want the terms settled first.
Most of what people ask before they pay comes down to a handful of things: what the price actually includes, what happens to the site once it's live, and whether the result is genuinely theirs to keep or move elsewhere. Those aren't awkward questions to ask. They're the ones worth asking of anyone charging you for a finished product you haven't seen yet.
The sequence from brief to finished site, including the parts you don't take part in, is set out in full on the how it works page.
What people ask before they pay
What does the $99 cover?
The $99 covers the build, your address at scrappywebsites.com, and the first year of hosting, plus tax where it applies. You pay before the build starts, and the site is built once from the brief you give.
What does my address look like?
Your site sits at scrappywebsites.com, with the part in front of it chosen by you. That's the address you'll give out and the one people type to find your site.
Who owns the finished files?
The files are yours once the build is done. You can take them and host them somewhere else entirely if you ever want to.
What happens after the first year?
The first year of hosting is included in the $99. After that, hosting renews at $49 a year, charged automatically, and you can cancel before it charges if you decide not to continue.
How long does the build take?
You pay first, then the site is built from the brief you gave. It's built once, in a single pass, with no draft stage and no back-and-forth to wait through.
What does 'built by AI' mean in practice?
Your site is built by AI, reading the brief you write and turning it into a finished multi-page site. There's no person drafting it and sending it back for changes: what you write in the brief is what goes into the build, once.
Got what you need?
You write the brief. The AI builds the site from it, in one pass.