I Rebuilt My Website With AI: Ghost Migration and Autopilot Posts

I just finished a complete rebuild of learnwirepro.com. I moved it off Ghost, redesigned it, and built automations that turn my YouTube videos into blog posts. Here is what I built and how it came together.

I'll also be upfront about the effort. Even with the best AI tools, this was at least 6 hours of work in front of the computer.

Why I left Ghost

I've been on Ghost for a year or two, and I think it's a solid platform. But it didn't let me do what I wanted. When I tried adding custom HTML pages, it was finicky, and I couldn't display a page without the header and menus.

Ghost does have a real strength: it's very newsletter heavy, so readers sign up for your newsletter and it's all integrated. But I was paying $400 and something per year to host one website there. I'm also paying about $450 for SiteGround, which hosts my other sites.

I also never had a clear direction for the site. Some articles ranked, some didn't. I wanted something highly functional that almost operates like a tool.

The idea: a directory of tools I've actually reviewed

I looked at sites like Futurepedia and There's An AI For That. They list every tool under the sun and get huge traffic (the second one showed 4.3 million visitors per month). They don't do full reviews or have a real connection to the tools.

That's where I have room to carve out my own piece. I don't put anything on the site unless I've reviewed it and have a real opinion. I can't cover as many tools as those sites, and I'm fine with that.

I also kept my green and yellow brand colors. I tried a blue, tech-style rebrand and even hired someone for a new logo last year. When I sent it around for votes, people preferred the original. So I'm honoring that.

The tools I used

I used Claude for planning and a brand guide, and Flute as my vibe coding platform. There are plenty of alternatives (Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, Replit), and you can code in Claude and host anywhere, such as SiteGround, Bluehost or Netlify.

Flute has been my favorite tool in my business for about two years, ever since I left Base 44. I'm an affiliate for it, so keep that in mind. I'm paying $100 a month for Claude Max, and everything is connected through MCP.

How the migration worked

The content move was simpler than I expected. In Ghost I went to settings, then import/export, and exported all data as JSON files. Then I gave those files to Flute inside the build.

Before building, I had Claude create a brand bible with my colors and fonts for each section, and I gave it my logo. Then I described the goal in the build chat: bring my site over from Ghost, host it on Flute, and automate turning YouTube videos into first-person blog posts with thumbnails, screenshots, SEO meta and the right category.

The answer was yes, mostly buildable. From there it was nonstop prompting. It built the sitemap pages, I changed the DNS from Namecheap to Flute, and I connected email.

How the YouTube-to-blog automation works

The site checks my YouTube channel every hour. When a new video appears, it lands in the admin dashboard.

• It matches the video in Tella, where I record and edit. I already pay for Tella, so I don't need a separate transcription service.
• It grabs the transcript and rewrites it based on my prompt and word count.
• If the match confidence is under 75%, it stops and I pick the right video manually.
• It pulls screenshots from Tella, then publishes.

So far it has found the right video every time. I backfilled my last 50 videos and moved forward from there.

It also decides what kind of post it is. A formal review goes under tools. A follow-up video, like a 30-day results video, is a blog post and not a review. I can also adjust the category, add an affiliate link, link a post to a reviewed tool, and then approve and publish. I've set it to auto-approve when everything runs smoothly. The queue you see in my video is just a backlog.

The tools directory

You can filter by category and by active deals. The site scans AppSumo, so a tool shows an AppSumo banner when it's live. When it isn't, you see a gray not-available state. I tested this with Snoooz AI, which was sold out on AppSumo, and the site reflected that.

Outbound links carry a LearnWire Pro reference tag. That lets me see which tools get clicks, and later decide where an affiliate link is worth setting up.

Newer tool pages are more structured: key takeaways, price, who it's best for, my rating out of 5, pros and cons, limitations, FAQs and reader reviews. LeadOcean is an example, with a 5 out of 5 from me. Older reviews are longer, while newer ones will be around 450 words or less. Related videos and posts get interlinked on each tool page.

Free membership

A free account gets you:

• Bookmarks to compare tools later (which also works as a popularity signal)
• Ratings for tools you've used, shown next to my rating
• Written reviews for other readers
• Access to the LearnWire newsletter

I'll moderate reviews. Be honest, but if you're spamming negativity across tools, I'll remove it. The newsletter is on Beehiiv, has about 450 people, and will focus on AppSumo and lifetime deals, not JVZoo or WarriorPlus. I haven't decided if it goes weekly or every two weeks.

I'm also considering a fifth feature: members suggest tools for me to review, and others upvote them.

What still needs work

• Thumbnails need to be sharper.
• A floating sign-up bar, and the empty space on tool pages needs content.
• Internal links on some posts.
• Bookmarking from the browse screens, and rating a few older tools.

My takeaway

Moving a site that's been around about four years, from WordPress to SiteGround to Ghost and now Flute, used to take days of manual work. I did this alone with Claude and Flute. But it still took 6+ hours, so don't expect a one-click rebuild. The bigger win is that the site finally has a purpose, and publishing no longer depends on me finding time.