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The Hidden Cost of a Cheap Website

RMRobertas Mickus2 October 2025
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Every founder we meet who regrets their website says a version of the same sentence: it looked fine until it had to do something.

Cheap builds optimise for the demo, not the decade. They skip the unglamorous work, performance budgets, accessibility, content structure, that decides whether a site still earns its keep in year three.

We are not arguing for expensive. We are arguing for deliberate. A site built with intent costs more on day one and far less across its life.

Written by Robertas Mickus, Web Development at built.lt.

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