Building Park Labs Website - The Lab Begins
Needed a place to house the experiments. Built the Park Labs website in a day with Next.js.
Needed a place to house the experiments.
🔬 Why Start with a Website
If you're going to run experiments, you need somewhere to record and share results. Could've used Notion or a blog, but since Park Labs itself is an experiment, decided to build the site from scratch. This is experiment number one.
🛠️ What Got Built
- Next.js 15 App Router — React-based framework. SSG builds to static, so hosting costs are basically zero
- Tailwind CSS + Glassmorphism — Black background with translucent cards. Trying to get that "laboratory" feel
- 8 experiment cards — Put up 8 including ones still in the idea stage
- Cloudflare Pages — Free hosting. Keeping costs minimal for a solo lab
💡 Thoughts
Got the site up in a day, but lack of design experience shows. Applied glassmorphism because it looked cool, though not sure if it's too much. It works for now, so starting from here and fixing as I go.
🎯 What's Next
Site is up. Now it's time to figure out the first real service. There's a fortune-telling service called fortune-today already running on WordPress — need to figure out what to do with it.