How I Built siril.space

(AKA: My Very Unfancy, Very Real Stack)

I didn’t build siril.space with some perfect founder workflow or a 27-part tech stack.

I built it the way most side projects actually get built:

A little at night.

A little on weekends.

A lot of “I’ll fix this later.”

And using tools that didn’t slow me down or piss me off.

This is the exact stack I used.

Not the “best.” Not the “recommended.”

Just the stuff that helped me ship without losing momentum.

GitHub Codespaces: My no-drama build environment

I didn’t want to install anything.

I didn’t want dependency issues.

I wanted to open a browser and start building.

Codespaces said: “Cool, here’s a full dev environment, go.”

Zero setup, zero excuses.

Just me, my code, and an internet connection.

GitHub Projects: Where all my chaos lived

I dumped everything here:

It became my one clean board in a very messy process.

If it wasn’t on the board, it did not exist.

Notion: The brain of siril.space

Every word you see on the site started in Notion.

Brain dumps, drafts, outlines, ideas that arrived at 11.47 pm — all of it.

Notion kept me organized enough to feel sane and chaotic enough to feel creative.

Perfect balance.

ChatGPT: My “give me a rough draft please” assistant

I used ChatGPT for:

Then I rewrote everything to sound like me.

AI didn’t write siril.space.

AI kept me moving.

Beehiiv: The easiest “just subscribe here” button

People asked where they could sign up.

I didn’t want to code anything.

Beehiiv gave me:

Done. No backend, no forms drama.

GA4: Because I already know how to read it

I didn’t experiment.

I didn’t explore alternatives.

I just slapped GA4 on the site because I use it daily at work and I actually understand what it’s saying.

Traffic, sources, behaviour.

Simple. Familiar. Enough.

Canva: My designer, brand team, and creative department

The logo? Canva.

The visuals? Canva.

The scraps of inspiration that somehow turned into a vibe? Also Canva.

It helped me look put together long before I actually was.

Figma: My “does this layout make sense or am I hallucinating?” tool

Before touching the code, I would rough out:

Figma saved me time and saved my site from looking like a last minute group project.

Vercel: The “please deploy without drama” button

When the site was ready to go live, I didn’t want CI/CD pain, server setups, or deployment rituals that feel like a puja ceremony.

I used Vercel because:

Basically, Vercel let me focus on shipping siril.space, not googling “why is my build failing” at 1.12 am.

It also makes the site feel instantly real with custom domain, clean deploys, zero nonsense.

That’s it. That’s my whole stack.

Nothing fancy.

Nothing hyper optimized.

Just tools that helped me ship siril.space without getting stuck.

It worked because:

This is not a “you should use this” list.

This is a “here’s what worked for me, steal whatever helps.”