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Peter Witham
Peter Witham

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Not everything needs fancy

I am wrapping up development and preparing to release my new mobile app SubRadar. The time arrived to put a Web site together.

Now I could have gone two ways

  1. Be the engineer in me and over work the problem with lots of good things that I'll never really need

  2. Keep it simple as a product site and move on

Yep, I chose number 2 this time around. All it needs is a simple HTML + CSS site to show the app and provide a contact form.

This also gave me an opportunity to embrace AI for getting the mundane layout done and then tweak by hand. So that's what I did using Claude Code. Something I've come to appreciate for sanity checking my work when things go wrong.

The end result I think was pleasing and after a couple of days of refining the code and making it look the way I wanted, I now have a product site that just needs some videos worked.

The lesson here is that I needed this done, I have the skills to do it but recognize that my time is better spent focused on getting the app done rather than the tasks I've done a 1000 times before.

Something for us all to think about as we love/hate AI and those tasks we'd rather not repeat over and over.

Take a look, I'm happy with it SubRadar.app

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