A friend with very particular aesthetic tastes reached out asking for a portfolio site. I built the entire pipeline to make data easily editable for a non-engineer and cheap to host.
- Content is hosted using Airtable as a pseudo database, so updates are as easy as editing a spreadsheet
- The content is periodically fetched, processed and cached at build time to avoid tripping the Airtable rate limiter
- The site is statically generated, so hosting costs are effectively zero
The setup has held up well — years later it is still running on the same pipeline with no maintenance from me.