I just rebuilt my personal website. Without being a developer.
leonhoulier.com
A few evenings with Claude Code and Cowork. That's it.
What's under the hood:
- Next.js 15
- GSAP animations (emoji rain, floating images, infinite carousels)
- Hosted on a Swiss VPS with Nginx
- Dark mode, mobile-first, glassmorphism
- Social content aggregation (tweets, posts, runs, music all in one place)
- Scroll-triggered animations
- LLM-friendly SEO metadata (so AI search engines can find me)
I used to have a simple HTML/CSS site I built with Cursor. It worked. But I wanted something that felt more alive.
Then I read Lee Robinson's post about agents on the Cursor blog. It clicked. If he's doing it, why can't I?
- Blog powered by Markdown files (no bulky CMS)
- APIs pulling content from Twitter, Instagram, Strava, Spotify
The craziest part? I don't really know TypeScript. I describe what I want, debug with Claude, iterate. Vibe coding done right.
You don't need to code to use developer tools. You just need curiosity.
Generalists will win.
