Some people are just jerks, looking for marketing help from the gurus here for my 13 year old daughters' 'business'

Imagine you work all summer, as a then 12, old to launch your own business.  She did EVERYTHING herself, AI generated website, manually built a database of service locations (this took her about 30 hours, cemetery locations), Order taking ability, payment processing and customer database built within that site. Logo's, flyers, business cards,  social media accounts..etc..all done by her

Months of work, and last night (9.15.2026) she decided to go live...and by live basically sharing her FB profile on my facebook page, an various local FB 'service provider' groups.

Then.. last night about a half hour later...
"Dad!!! we got a comment"  Then dead silence...

Greg Colton (Family Guy Director), who I've known for probably 20+ years, posted this comment.  It's been delete but I have a screen shot (not sure I can attach it but will try) 

"Sorry, she created nothing. This is AI slop & children should not be using it. This kills any identity a brand might want to have & closes Wallets"

The kid literally had a tear running down her face when I got to the table she was working at.

I'd love for her to get home from school today and have a $hitton of followers.  

As someone that obviously knows NOTHING about the market, What do you guys suggest? 

 The business is called Shine After Life, which is a headstone cleaning service in the Buffalo NY area inspired by her grandpa (my dad) who is no longer with us.

I'd like to post the FB page and website so you can see what she's done but I am not sure it's allowed?

Many Thanks to all who chime in! 

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skeletonclock•about 3 hours ago•16

"She did EVERYTHING herself"

"AI generated website"

These can't both be true...

probablykitten•about 3 hours ago•7

He’s right. Sorry…

J-Clash•about 3 hours ago•3

I'm no entrepreneur. You might be better off with posters in/around the local cemeteries than leveraging a digital footprint for something like this?

Social media for a business is just marketing. So posting regularly to get in front of your audience's feeds is all it's about.

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Youareaproperclown•about 3 hours ago•1

I can't find the site to give any input.

But from what you've said she hasn't done any headstone cleaning, AI made the website and you did the only piece of marketing for it.

So what exactly are you teaching her here?

jawanda•about 3 hours ago•1

The funny thing is she's trying to start a manual service company that inherently cannot be fulfilled by AI, so it doesn't really matter that the website and such is AI. In fact that's the best use of AI, she's not selling some AI product she just used it to whip up some marketing.

Does the website actually have real pictures that she took, like before and afters and such? I think I'd you're gonna go the full "vibe coded everything" route it's key to build the site around real human content. Yes, AI write the code and designed it, but they're her words and photos and content.

The fact that the guy commented on the AI and not on the service she's offering tells me you missed the mark in how you're presenting the project. If your post made it all about the "website she built" and not the service she's offering, that would make sense.

On a completely different note, as someone who has been building business online for over 25 years, it's good to get used to that crushing feeling especially if you've been building in a bubble. Just part of the price of being an entrepreneur.

Focus on the actual service, and don't use ai generated images for something like this. Let the AI build the site but otherwise make it about the real humans, especially for something so personal.

Visible-Choice-5414•about 3 hours ago•-4

For some reason, people are being socially engineered at the moment to specifically hate on startups or small business owners who use ai.

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