New to Antsand? Start with the thing I am actually building: a way to make and operate more than one website without starting each one from scratch.

A factory for independent sites

Antsand is the platform behind my publishing and site-building work. I call the approach a SaaS factory pattern. Content, page sections, shared styles, and site configuration are assembled into a generated website. The result has its own routes and customer data; it is not just another skin on the Antsand editor.

ShivasNotes is a concrete example. I use it to write about math, kernels, and the systems behind modern AI, while building out its reader and membership experience. This Antsand blog focuses more on the factory itself: how I design, generate, test, and operate the sites.

Where to begin

If you want the architecture story, read how Antsand moved into containers and grew into a website factory. It explains what is running now and what remains a plan.

If you are designing a site, start with the UI and UX guide. I now pair the visual work with reusable section contracts, keyboard checks, and mobile review.

If you operate a site, read the website-maintenance guide. The important question is not only whether a new page looks right, but whether accounts, content, and links survive the next release.

If you work with application boundaries, the PHP and Vue API walkthrough shows an earlier integration approach, with a newer note about authorization, validation, and repeatable requests.

How I write here

I try to show the work: what I built, what broke, how I checked a fix, and what is still unproven. That includes design systems, deployment and recovery, agent-assisted workflows, data ownership, and the costs of keeping software running. A working demo is useful; a reviewable release with a way back is better.

About this page: the original welcome was written by Newvick Lee and Anthony Shivakumar for earlier projects, BETMProjects and ANTNIJA. Neither project is active today. I replaced the old navigation because it sent readers to those defunct sites; their history remains part of how Antsand got here.