BuildingYourIdea.com

Getting Started...

The engineer in me wants full control so I built this site from scratch using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and Vercel. I know this stack well enough to move fast, and it's flexible enough to build exactly what I wanted. Time will tell if this gives me the ability to build all the features I want or if I get bogged down in maintenance.

Vercel Demo Site

The Comic

Most sites use a hero image or video. I made a comic instead. The version shown here is the original AI generated concept, but it needed a lot of cleanup in Figma before it was ready for the homepage. Turns out AI thinks happy customers have three arms. Let me know if you want more details on this process.

Original Comic

Logo & Branding

Please excuse the colors and placeholder logo. I know I can't do this on my own so I'm working with a designer friend. The colors are as close as I can get to calming dark mode without looking too generic (my first pick matched the browser colors).

Link Tracking

Don't worry, I'm not spying on you. This site doesn't use cookies or any other tracking that follows you around the web. But I am interested in which 'marketing' links are clicked. All 'marketing' links are buildingyouridea.com/r with the campaign, site, and destination as parameters. The middleware handles tracking and redirection. I tried using Vercel's Analytics for this but didn't want to pay for it so I was not able to do much. I then switched to my original plan anyway and used a custom Redis database. I will be using their data browser for now but may build a custom dashboard later.