The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Back to feedPost
I built my own CMS (Content Management System) for my personal website.
Since I built my personal site with Claude Code & Codex, and am hosting it on my own VPS, I needed a way quickly add content like new design shots, case-studies, essays, etc. without having to ask AI all the time.
So I built my own CMS that let's me easily add & update the content, and publish it with a click of a button.
And the best part, it's re-usable. I made it flexible from the start so that I can implement similar functionality for future client projects as well.
With the latest AI models, the possibilities are endless. And it's so exciting to build with these tools.
Just dropped my new personal site. And for the first time, not in Framer...
Built with Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, and a bunch of other tools I've been...
The network for creativity
Join 1.25M professional creatives like you
Connect with clients, get discovered, and run your business 100% commission-free
Creatives on Contra have earned over $150M and we are just getting started
Related posts
Working on the hardest project of my life. Our own website! So much done and so much more still to do!
All built with codex and Framer
aperios-design.co.uk
prepping for my workshop on Monday, this is a crochet visualization tool to see each and every step to turn yarn into a crab for the Claude Community House (claudebcn.com). Cool, no?
🎓 GROWTH TIP 07/30: DON’T JUST REWARD ACTIONS. MAKE PROGRESS TOO VALUABLE TO ABANDON.
Most learning apps treat gamification as a reward layer.
Complete a lesson → get XP.
Come back tomorrow → extend a streak.
Hit a milestone → unlock a badge.
Useful mechanics. But none of them creates retention on its own.
The stronger growth loop starts when every action makes the user feel like they’ve built something worth coming back to.
In this EdTech concept, a completed lesson doesn’t disappear.
It becomes part of a visible history.
History builds a streak.
The streak moves toward a milestone.
The milestone creates a reward.
And the next locked achievement creates anticipation.
Action → accumulation → anticipation → return.
That’s the difference between adding gamification and designing a progression system.
The goal isn’t to make learning feel like a game.
It’s to make accumulated progress feel valuable enough that leaving means walking away from something the user has already invested in.
The better question isn’t:
“How do we reward this action?”
It’s:
“How does this action increase the value of coming back?”
🔥 Streaks make consistency visible.
🏆 Milestones turn repetition into progress.
⭐ XP gives every session continuity.
🔒 Locked achievements give progress somewhere to go next.
One reward can create a moment.A connected progression system creates a reason to return.
#MobileDesign #GrowthUX #Gamification #EdTech #RetentionUX #ProductDesign #MobileApp #LearningUX #EngagementDesign #HabitDesign
👉 BOOK A MOBILE APP SESSION
https://calendly.com/asol_design/book-diagnostic-call-linkedin-clone
Excellent balance and structure. Keep up the great work!
