This month, I’m focused on learning by doing. You, dear reader, are my accountability.
I’ll be building things publicly for fun or work throughout the month and sharing them with you!
You’ve probably heard of building in public. This is me thinking in public, refining my thoughts on AI, work, life & the economy by building products, automations, features & agents. I’d appreciate any thoughts, ideas or feedback you have! Just reply.
So without any further ado…
Day 1 of Maker May: Project - curtiscorrell.com
Tech Stack:
Component | Tool | Info |
|---|---|---|
DNS | Squarespace DNS | Verdict: Do Not Use I purchased this on Google Domains years ago, and it was transferred to Squarespace automatically |
Newsletter/Blog | Free email newsletter tool I’ve been meaning to experiment more with for years | |
Hosting | Vercel | Great for hosting. |
Site builder | Vercel v0, Codex & VS Code | I started a blank project in v0 to make Vercel compatibility easy, then built it in Codex & VS Code |
Repository | Github | Private repo hosted on Github |
What I learned:
It’s so much easier to launch on Vercel if you start your project in v0. In the past, I’ve spent a ton of time troubleshooting compatibility and dependencies, but this made it really easy to start shipping code in a test environment quickly.
Beehiiv has a lot of non-newsletter features that are cool, but at this point the web builder doesn’t give me the control I want, so I’m sticking with it for just newsletters.
Telling your story is iterative. This site doesn’t fully do it, but that’s ok. I’ll post it & update it over time. Case in point, my brother hates the name of the newsletter, but it’s 4:10 on Friday, so I’m not changing it right now.
A weird story about my site:
I bought curtiscorrell.com long ago. I accidentally let it expire early in my career, and it got bought by some Chinese company that was promoting their tchotchkes on it. Presumably when it got no sales after a year or two, they let it expire & I bought it again. Lesson learned.
I should probably wrap this up with something funny or wise, but this month I’m committed to shipping things before they’re ready & then iterating, so goodbye and thanks for reading this far!