Font AwesomeI really love surprise parties. I’m just so frickin’ excited!
We’ve been holding something in for a long time. And well, to be honest, our tummies hurt just a little. TLDR; Now you can help fund the Build Awesome Kickstarter!
To be honest, holding in this news was kinda like trying not to spoil a surprise party while the guest of honor keeps asking why there are balloons poking out of the closet. (We see you, Surprise Party Sue.)
The Kickstarter is live, and you’re invited into the test kitchen. Back the project, nab all the goodies, and help us ship a better long-term recipe for building on the web.
The Build Awesome Kickstarter is Live!
Build Awesome is our answer to a problem every web person knows deep down in their bones: while shipping websites is sometimes easy, the maintenance part is not.
Somewhere between launch day confetti and six months later, your build ends up requiring seventeen plugins and performing an ethically gray ritual, just to keep things running. Your site gets fragile. Bloated. Stale. The deploy pipeline starts looking like a kitchen that a group of kindergartners have been “cooking” in for the last week. Your utensil drawer has been replaced with a vague sense of dread, and your dry ingredients have been spilled all over the floor.
So we sprung into action to do what we do best: we marched into the test kitchen and started rebuilding the recipe!
The Problem: Modern Web Stacks Feel Like Cooking During an Earthquake
You’ve got everything you need: design system, components, content, a plan (and maybe a playlist to jam while you’re building).
But somehow shipping still runs up against the brick wall of multiple frameworks, a database + CMS layer, and a deployment pipeline held together with thoughts, prayers, and one dependency that updates every Tuesday just to remind you who’s boss.
Simple edits turn into unwelcome meetings with Milton (we like him just fine). Maintenance turns into archaeology. And somewhere in your CI config, a ‘possum is chewing through a cable while maintaining unblinking eye contact.
The Solution: Build Awesome
Build Awesome is static by default. That means fast sites that don’t crumble under their own stack, with:
- Durable HTML output: boring (compliment) pages that keep working for years
- No database required: fewer moving parts, fewer “why is prod on fire” moments
- Anywhere hosting: deploy where you want, not where a platform insists
- Clearer structure for maintenance + collaboration: easier edits after launch, even with team churn
- Optional Pro workflow tools: safer updates, previews, and teamwork without lock-in
Aaand, no Awesomeverse project is complete without a fun video. Well, you guessed it, a bunch of the video cast and crew are back at it (including a ‘possum mascot!) so quit readin’ and start watchin’!
