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Why I Still Built a Personal Website in 2026

2026-07-09 · independence

Platforms are rented, a website is owned

RED, Douyin, X, YouTube — wherever your content lives, the audience belongs to the platform. One algorithm change, one shadowban, and years of work can vanish. A website under your own domain is the only digital asset nobody can take away.

This is not about quitting social media. Quite the opposite: platforms get you seen, a website gets you remembered. Social accounts are the tentacles; the website is the root.

What settles here

This site does exactly three things:

  • Ideas — opinions on things I care about. Views expire, but the trail of thinking is worth keeping.
  • Works — small tools built with AI. Things that work are more convincing than things that are said.
  • Resources — the tools, sites, prompts and tutorials I actually use. Curation is also a form of expression.

Why now

AI has driven the cost of “one person shipping a complete product” to an all-time low. The distance between an idea and a live URL has shrunk to a single step: starting.

This website is itself the first work.