I built 24 Websites in 24 Hours

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About this video

NetworkChuck builds 24 websites in 24 hours in a Hostinger-sponsored challenge, hiding a secret code on each of the first 23 sites that together unlock site 24, with the first three people to arrive winning a $500 Amazon gift card. He uses Claude and other AI help to rapidly make mostly playful single-purpose sites: a John Hammond fan site, a Pomodoro timer based on 30 minutes of focus followed by a short break, a YouTube comment-of-the-day site using the YouTube API, random movie and recipe pickers using APIs, an ‘is it Halloween’ checker, a bidet advocacy site, a recreation of the looping sanger.dk pug video, a store selling only 24 shirts, a grocery list, a ‘you shouldn’t send this’ venting site, a countdown holding an encrypted $500 gift card code, and quote, ethernet-wiring, coffee-recipe and colour-identification helpers. He pitches Hostinger’s business plan at four bucks a month for up to 100 websites, a free domain and extra features, with code NetworkChuck10 for an extra 10% off. The finale explains longest URLs: a second-level domain is limited to 63 characters, subdomains can extend a URL to a max of 253 characters including periods, versus a historic example over 1800 characters.

Key takeaways

The contest structure is 23 hidden secret codes that combine to form the URL for website 24, with $500 Amazon gift cards for the first three arrivals
Most sites are built by asking Claude to generate HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP and then pasting it into Hostinger’s file manager or site builder
Several sites depend on third-party APIs, including the YouTube API for comments and the Open Movie Database for movie picks, requiring free API keys
Chuck warns the quickly built sites were not initially secure and cautions against exposing API keys in client-side code
He cites domain limits from the video itself: 63 characters for a second-level domain and 253 characters total including periods when using subdomains

Episode details: published September 11, 2024 · 20:14 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are NetworkChuck’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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