From 2014-2016 I founded my own Spoon University chapter for The University of Arizona. Spoon University was a food article website that was written by college students and for college students.
With a few friends we managed nearly 20 writers and we constiently had our "Spoon Arizona Chapter" in the top ten for articles views, enagement, and etc. I wrote several articles for my chapter and a few of my articles got over 100k views and this article "24 Things To Eat in Tucson Before You Die" got shared 100's of times via different Tucson pages and got 150k views total.
New course site for NUDDA, a martial-arts school, live at nudda.com since 1 October 2026.
I built it from scratch on LearnDash. You buy the course without creating an account first: one consent box, then a card payment through Stripe.
The step I was most careful with was the switch to the live domain. I swapped folders, so the old site and its database stayed untouched next to the new one as the way back, and a script then ran 14 checks from outside and passed all 14. Six people who had bought on the old site came over with their existing passwords, so nobody got a reset email.
PageSpeed Insights on 28 October: Performance 97 on mobile and 100 on desktop, plus 100 for accessibility, best practices and SEO.
Keeping the existing learners’ passwords working is a thoughtful migration detail; the course should feel continuous to them even when the platform changes. For the account-after-payment flow, how do you handle a buyer who uses the same email as an existing learner, so their new purchase lands in the right account?
I design and run the blogs for TasteOS, pirch and tab, and each one looks like its own product. TasteOS paints its mascot into every scene. pirch gives each post one small object and publishes original research with its sources. tab pairs practical notes for freelancers with art that never repeats a medium.