Hello, world.

Date: 16 March, 2026

this is the start of the unnamed site / blog builder project. I am just tinkering around to see what could be a way to do a non-technical user-friendly site builder in the age of AI - now and beyond. Not sure what shape or form this will take. So I'll start with documenting the process for now.

Let's start with this.. I hate building sites on Wordpress. Some reasons:

• They are a pain in the ass to change/maintain. Finding good quality plugins is a pain
• I can't quite come to an agreeable setup that lets me develop locally and have that reflect on a remote site
• I can't find a good way to use CLI agents like Claude Code to manage / improve the site. It is related to the above point
• I don't want to use something like Squarespace / Wix. I can't imagine paying hundreds of dollars an year to serve a blog
• It is hard to do branching on wordpress, to just try out a few things and then undo if needed
• Backups are too technical to do for a layman. It needs understanding that the database and the php files itself need to be backed up
• Takes _way_ more resources than it should to run simple blogs

For these reasons, I feel wordpress does not play well with AI tooling and we can do a lot better in terms of user experience for non-technical users.

Here I want to explore some ideas to make a better AI native site builder. A non-technical user should be able to tinker with it using natural language to modify it's sitemap, navigation, page design etc.

I will gradually make changes to this place. And try to dog food it as I build it. We're starting with a single index.html file, which has this content which you are reading.

Until next time!