How to build a website from your phone (no computer needed)

Ricardo is a locksmith in Guadalajara. He works off a motorcycle, answers the phone at eleven at night when someone’s locked their keys in the car, and his office is his phone. He’s got a computer at his sister’s house, and he uses it twice a year to do invoices.

When people tell him “you need to get yourself a website,” the first thing he thinks isn’t how much it costs. It’s when. Because in his head, building a website means sitting down for three hours in front of a screen he doesn’t have.

If you’re in the same boat, here’s the good news: building a website from your phone — your whole site, with text, photos, and a contact button, without ever touching a computer — isn’t a trick question anymore. It really can be done, and the most important part actually works better on a phone than on a computer. I’ll tell you straight what’s genuinely hard too, so you know exactly when you’ll need to borrow a bigger screen.

Why do the usual tools demand a computer?

Because visual editors — the ones where you drag blocks around, move them, resize them — are built for a mouse and a big screen: you need to see the whole page while you nudge an image two centimeters to the left.

On a phone those tools give you a stripped-down version. You can change a bit of text, not much else. And the usual thing happens: you leave the site half-done “for when I get to a computer,” and that afternoon never comes. It’s not laziness. It’s that the tool asked you for something you don’t carry around.

So how do you actually build a website from your phone?

By describing your business in words, not arranging blocks: instead of a visual editor, you write what your business does, and the full site comes out of that. This is where things change. If, instead of arranging blocks, the page gets built by describing your business in words, the phone stops being a problem.

Think about it: writing a paragraph on your phone is something you already do twenty times a day. You explain to a customer over WhatsApp what the service includes, how much it costs, and what time you can get there. That exact message is the raw material for your website.

So the work isn’t learning a tool. It’s writing well, once, what you already explain every single day.

The paragraph Ricardo wrote

Here’s what Ricardo typed out, between one job and the next, waiting at a long light:

I’m a locksmith in Guadalajara, I work in Zapopan, Chapalita, Providencia and downtown. 24-hour house calls. I do car openings, house openings, lock changes, key copies and chip keys for cars. The diagnostic and the call-out cost $250, and the rest depends on the job; I tell you the price before I start. I get there in 30 to 40 minutes within Guadalajara. I want my phone number big, a WhatsApp button, and it should say I work nights and Sundays.

That’s it. From that comes a page with his services, his coverage area, his hours, and a button that opens WhatsApp directly, with his number already in. Published, with its own link, ready to drop into his WhatsApp status and his Google Business Profile.

Notice something: there isn’t a single design decision in that paragraph. It doesn’t say “I want the logo in the top left.” It says what he does, where, how much, and when. That you know by heart, and that you can type with your thumbs.

Can you dictate the page instead of typing it?

Yes, and it often comes out better: hold down the microphone on your keyboard and explain your business out loud, the way you’d tell a new customer over the phone, instead of typing it out.

Talk for two minutes. It’ll come out with mistakes and no commas — doesn’t matter, you fix that after.

Dictating gets you better information than typing, for a pretty simple reason: when you type on a phone you tend to shorten things, and shortening is exactly how the details your customer needs slip away. Talking, you say “oh, and I also work Sundays” — which was the exact detail that would’ve gotten them to call.

What’s actually hard to do with just a phone?

Three things get tricky without a computer: reviewing long blocks of text, sorting photos, and connecting your own domain. I’ll flag them now so they don’t catch you halfway through:

Reviewing long blocks of text. On a small screen you read in little chunks and errors slip past. Double-check your prices; an extra zero on a service is an awkward phone call waiting to happen.

Sorting photos. Taking them and uploading them from your phone is the easiest thing in the world. Picking them is the slow part: Ricardo has like forty photos of locks and doors — he takes them to show customers how the job turned out — all mixed in with screenshots of addresses and memes from the family group chat. Out of those forty, maybe three are usable. A trick that helps: make an album on your phone called “website” and drop the good ones in as you take them, right in the moment.

Connecting your own domain. If you’re going to buy your .com.mx, the registrar’s panel where you paste in the DNS records is, honestly, a pain on a phone: the fields are tiny and one wrong character throws everything off. For that step it’s worth borrowing a computer for an hour. And there’s no rush — publish first with the link you’re given, start sending that around, and connect the domain later.

Do I need to check my page on a computer?

Yes, once: even though you built it on your phone and have been looking at it there from minute one, some customers are going to open it on a big screen, and that’s something you haven’t seen yet.

Every piece of advice out there tells you to check your site on your phone. In your case, that advice is beside the point.

What you haven’t seen is how it looks on a big screen. And there are people who will open it that way: a customer at their office, an insurance company, the management office of a residential complex looking for a trusted locksmith for its residents.

Ask someone to open it on a laptop and send you a screenshot. Five minutes, once. It’s your blind spot, the same way the phone screen is the blind spot for whoever built their site on a computer.

Start in your next dead moment

Don’t set aside an afternoon. That afternoon never comes.

Next time you’re waiting — at a red light, between one job and the next, in line at the bank — open the notes app on your phone and dictate for two minutes: what you do, what area you cover, how much a call-out costs, and what hours you work. With that, you’ve already done the hard part.

Once you’ve got it, describe it to Proyecta and publish it. And if something comes out a little off, just tell it the way you’d tell anyone: “make the phone number bigger and get rid of that section.” From your phone too.