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Where to find inspiration for a (reactive) personal website?

mryingster — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:26:49 +0000

I've had a personal website since the mid 90's. I used to find making personal sites fun back in the day. Around the time that mobile became a thing, I lost the motivation for updating my design. I found the constraints on size and interactions frustrating, and have let my site stagnate for over a decade. I've recently worked on a project that rejuvenated my desire to update my personal website. I don't know where to draw inspiration from though for a website that is navigable on mobile. I don't feel like I've personally visited many sites where I thought the mobile experience was great. However I realize that in this modern web, it's important to build for mobile first. Any examples you have of good/effective reactive design would be welcomed. I tried doing a search for such resources, but was inundated by AI listicles and I didn't want to give them any views.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027566

Points: 3

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Turn an existing CV into a personal website in under a minute

javier_yc_new — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:09:19 +0000

Article URL: https://self.cv/en/blog/why-we-built-self

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945427

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

What should a personal website be?

ibobev — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/personal-website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897814

Points: 2

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Show HN: What if your personal website was ChatGPT?

mrbnprck — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:42:24 +0000

Hi HN,

I recently updated my website to have a touch of this new AI thing.

The initial idea was simple: what if visitors could explore a CV by chatting with it instead of scanning a traditional static website?

I'm quite happy how the final version turned out:

* It runs LLM inference via Groq at 100-200ms latency at super low cost. The token generation is intentionally throttled to make the interaction feel natural, otherwise you'd literally hit enter and the response is already there.

* Except for a markdown rendering and HTMX4 there's no client side javascript!

* It's build with a custom server-side swift stack so everything related to the HTMX4 static site generation and networking layer is pure swift.

* As a nice side effect, search engines/crawlers cannot collect my CV right away, everything is bound to interactivity with the chat interface.

Technically you can ask the chat anything you want about my professional work experience. Rate limits & guard rails apply :)

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816920

Points: 1

# Comments: 8

What should a personal website be?

vinhnx — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:49:15 +0000

Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/personal-website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800153

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

What should a personal website be?

tolerance — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:18:21 +0000

Article URL: https://ratfactor.com/cards/personal-website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787053

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

A dead simple personal website engine for developers focused on simplicity

iamhaseeb — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/iam-mhaseeb/koji

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623790

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Ten Years of Having a Personal Website

Greenpants — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.greenpants.net/ten-years-of-personal-websites-from-student-to-senior/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507379

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

downbad_ — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:09:20 +0000

Article URL: https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48432597

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I turned my personal website into a bash shell (with Vim)

darrikonn — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:35:18 +0000

Hi HN,

This is my personal site, but instead of the usual landing page it drops you into an interactive shell.

It's a React SPA with a virtual filesystem and command history. About 28 commands work the way you'd expect (ls, cd, cat, tree, find, grep, head, tail, wc, which, man, history, mkdir, touch, rm, cp, mv, echo, env, sudo, open, clear, pwd, whoami, date, uname, vi, vim). Tab completion, piping where it makes sense, and a help if you get stuck.

I keep adding commands when I'm bored, suggestions welcome.

Try help or just ls.

PS. Can you find the Easter-egg?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286307

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

My Vaporwave inspired personal website

zed_labs_dev — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:17:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zohaib.cc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261575

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Do you have a colophon for your personal website?

susam — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:41:47 +0000

A colophon is a page or section (typically in a footer) of a site that describes how the site is made, with what tools, supporting what technologies, and often published on personal sites at a top level /colophon page. (Source: https://indieweb.org/colophon)

Do you maintain a colophon for your website? If so, please share it here. It will be nice to see how other people from the HN community set up their websites, what technologies they use and what choices they have made.

If you do not have a colophon page, please feel free to share the details directly in a comment.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248141

Points: 13

# Comments: 7

Show HN: I built an API for agents visiting my personal website

selvmvde — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://mczaykowski.com/articles/smallest-ax-surface

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024102

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

My personal website – a start to my internet home

AlexArias — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:18:16 +0000

Article URL: https://alexarias.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818691

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Please don't vibe code your personal website

alexwennerberg — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-01-31-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759977

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Redesigning My Personal Website with Claude Code

Artgor — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:18:41 +0000

Article URL: https://andlukyane.com//blog/redesigning-my-personal-website

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487899

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Submissions for a queer-supportive personal website ring

tavro — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:16:44 +0000

i would like to build a small web ring of personal websites that are explicitly queer-supportive and host the directory on my own site.

if you run a personal website and feel that it fits that description, feel free to share it here. i am mainly looking for personal sites and blogs.

i will collect submissions and add them when i put together the page. i might not reply immediately, but i will circle back once i am compiling the list.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47405729

Points: 2

# Comments: 1