The challenges of building your site without a team
They say it takes a village to raise a child. The same applies to building a website representing your business, skills, identity, and future.
Right now, I’m playing the role of single parent.
Wearing All the Hats
I’m the architect, designer, developer, copywriter, tester, project manager, client, and tired human trying to keep everything together. Every decision, from choosing a font to wrangling deployment bugs, falls on me. And while I’ve got years of experience and many tools, doing it solo is still hard.
Because when you’re your own client, you’re never done. There’s always one more improvement, one more bug to fix, one more “quick idea” that spirals into a two-day rabbit hole. The homepage never feels finished. The footer’s never quite right. And don’t even get me started on writing the “About” page in the third person.
Missing the Village
There are moments when I miss having a team, the kind of back-and-forth where ideas evolve, the quiet encouragement of someone saying, “Ship it,” and the shared satisfaction when something finally clicks.
The Support System You Didn’t Realize You Had
But here’s the thing: I am still part of a village. It just looks a little different now.
The village consists of open source contributors I’ve never met, tutorials written by generous strangers, feedback from friends, late-night forum threads, kind voices in group chats, and yes, even tools like this one that help me talk it out.
Final Thoughts
So if you’re building something on your own, know this: you’re not alone. The work is challenging, but you’re not doing it in a vacuum. And you don’t have to do everything at once.
Small steps. Quiet wins. One piece at a time.
Eventually, you’ll look up and realize you’ve built something real and did it your way.
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