Personal website thoughts

(it’s time)

• projects
• major and minor
• work
• writing
• sync from Notion?
• substack???
• links
• photos

inspirations

• sophia
• ekzhang
• kipply (rip)
• jefftk
• tristan hume
• pg
• patio11

thoughts

• most personal websites are showcases/galleries, how could one be interactive?
• “talk with digital Austin, AMA”
• sometimes chats with AI, sometimes just texts me
• paste in your <x lw linkedin> and I’ll talk to you
• update the site directly
• via claude code thing?
• quick fork & preview?
• here’s a list of blog ideas; vote for ones you like
• big CRM of people I know

• monthly update email
• could be a bit linksposty
• random selection of eg 10 people who get the monthly update email
• … (to do what? highlight/showcase?)

• what is a personal website about?
• helping somebody understand you, an index
• broadcasting yourself, amplification
• form of self-expression, art
• place to host your thoughts

• websites as a medium
• (and, “websites” can be quite broad; Notion is a website)

Unrelated

• idea/minisite: crowdsource bounty for effortposts by specific people, ie “why won’t <fave blogger> write anymore?”
• or: pay to unlock substacks for the public. (idea from twitter/zvi)
• what’s a good stack for web dev now?

themes

• “unlimited website works”
• or, it’s a plugin which generates the theme of your choice
• or a theme appropriate to the viewer

urls

austin.ink, $350

austin.dad, $300

austin.blog $640 then $2.5k/y

austin.site, austin.fun $780 but then $3k/y

austinchen.com — $5k, then reasonable $18/y

austin.love - $8k, $12k renewal

on vercel

also austin.top $55