How we built a festival website with AI from two voice notes, and an application bot in a day
On November 4 we took on the website for M.A.D. Fest, a student festival at Belarus State Economic University (BSEU) in Minsk. I recorded two voice notes, one 25 seconds long and one 1:46. Our agents built the site with AI from there, and in under five hours the page was live on the festival's test site. On November 12 we built a Telegram bot to take applications to our team, in a single day. The whole prep took a week of work.
What the festival needed
M.A.D. Fest is an international student festival of marketing and advertising. This year it takes place on November 19 in Minsk. The faculty gave us a test site on WordPress and the design source files. Some of the materials were already printed, so the colors and graphics stayed as they were.
How to build a website with AI: two voice notes instead of a spec
In the first voice note I described the design I wanted: "make it a [beep] design… a proper wow." In the second, how to build the page and where to put it. From there our AI agents for web development took over. They designed the mockup, wrote the code, tested the page on desktop and mobile and deployed it to the festival's test site. My part was approving the mockup and telling them to build.
| November 4 | What happened |
|---|---|
| 19:20 | 0:25 voice note on the design |
| 20:38 | 1:46 voice note on the build |
| 21:08 | mockup approved, I type "go ahead, write all the code" |
| 00:07 | the page is live on the test site |
The faculty's reply to the mockup: "Really solid" and "Looks great."
Bottom line: 4 h 47 min from the design voice note to a live page.
the page is live on the test site 00:07 "make it a [beep] design… a proper wow."
tap the button in the chat to listen (in Russian), one word is bleeped
the page is live on the test site 00:07 "make it a [beep] design… a proper wow."
tap the button in the chat to listen (in Russian), one word is bleeped
A typical agency website build vs. ours
| Step | The usual way | How it went at M.A.D. Fest |
|---|---|---|
| Brief | brief, meetings, a spec document | two voice notes |
| Mockup | a designer draws it, then rounds of approvals | the agents designed it, I approved the first version |
| Code and testing | a developer, then a QA tester | the agents wrote the code and tested it on desktop and mobile |
| Program and speaker updates | through a developer | one line in a list, no code |
| Time to first version | usually weeks | under five hours |
Bottom line: 4 h 47 min from the first voice note to a live page.
What's on the event landing page, and who updates it
One layout for desktop and mobile: a countdown to the opening, a program you can filter by format, speakers, a contests pop-up, FAQ and a map. The program and speakers can be updated without a developer, and the page comes with a guide with screenshots.
| What to change | How |
|---|---|
| speaker | one line in a list, and the card slots into the grid and the program on its own |
| program item | one line in a list, and the format filter picks it up automatically |
| contests | one switch: show or hide the rules |
The program, speakers and partner logos came in piece by piece, so for now we've been making those updates ourselves.
A Telegram bot for applications in one day
At the festival I'm recruiting the sharpest students for our team. I didn't want applications piling up in a manager's DMs. On November 12 at 14:08 I explained the task in a voice note, and by about 10 pm the bot was taking applications. We only accept them through Telegram, and only with a phone number.
| Who | What they do |
|---|---|
| candidate | answers questions in Telegram, shares their number only via a button, one application per account |
| bot | adds the application as a row in a Google Sheet, pings the team with "new application", sends the test task |
| team | sets the status in the sheet and taps one button, and the candidate gets an invite, the test task, "You're in" or a rejection |
Before launch the agents ran 42 scenarios from a real Telegram account, the way a candidate would. Every one passed.
Sample story: Vera appliessample data is made up
What we collect and why, in brief
We'll reply here, in this chat.
Deadline "4 days"
Sample story: Vera appliessample data is made up
What we collect and why, in brief
We'll reply here, in this chat.
Deadline "4 days"
Where did the AI agents trip up?
On the first deploy, WordPress mangled one character in the code and the page didn't load. We fixed it in under an hour. On the morning of November 13 the team wrote the test task in their own words with a deadline of "4 days", but the bot expected a template and a date. The task never went out. 17 minutes later the bot accepted both free text and "4 days".
WordPress mangled one character in the code
Test task in our own words and a "4 days" deadline
WordPress mangled one character in the code
Test task in our own words and a "4 days" deadline
From the outside it all looks very simple. But I spent a long time training my agents and building the process so it works like this.
What you can take from this
You can brief a job by voice if there's a process behind it: who builds, who checks, where it goes live
Build pages the client updates by editing a line in a list, not by calling a developer
Keep applications in a bot and a spreadsheet, not in DMs: you set the status in the sheet, the bot messages the candidate
On November 19 at 11:10 I'll play the students that same 25-second voice note.
We'll do the same for you
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FAQ
- Can you build a website with AI just by voice?
- Yes, if the agents have a process in place: mockup, code, checks, deployment. The festival site was built from two voice notes in one evening.
- How long does a Telegram bot for applications take to build?
- Ours took a day: the task went out by voice at 14:08, and by about 10 pm the bot was taking applications, logging them in a Google Sheet and notifying the team.
- Is this vibe coding?
- It looks similar, but no. Vibe coding is when someone asks an AI to write code and takes whatever comes out. Behind our voice notes there's a process: the agents design a mockup, I approve it, then come the code, tests on desktop and mobile, and deployment.
