This post was first published on seed.town, which I’ve since shut down. seed.town was meant to be an easy way to build content sites.
Related: Rich text or markdown? and Creating friedrice.fun, my non-professional fun blog.
Don’t worry, this isn’t domain-driven development. I’ve wanted to build this for a long time.
Over the past few years I’ve built a bunch of content sites:
- National Service Resources: resources for guys going through National Service in Singapore
- Husker: links, resources, and a wiki for Northeastern students
- and most recently friedrice.fun: my own personal site for reviews: restaurants, food, movies, whatever
Every time, it was more work than I expected. And most of that work happened before I’d written a single word:
- How should the site look?
- What are the content categories?
- How do I make everything fit into them?
- Should I just use a website builder?
These are the wrong questions. I should have just started writing and let the site grow from there. Categories are great for organizing, but they become limiting when you force everything through them before the content even exists.
I’m doing it differently with friedrice.fun: write the content first, add tags later (if I feel like it), and let collections form on their own once there’s actually something to collect.
I want to make it this easy for everyone. That’s seed.town.
So this is page one. Watch it grow.