Project: Hcody Site
The journey of my site development
By Hisham · Published on April 12, 2022
Intro
My personal website showcasing projects, articles, certificates, and more — built to serve as both my portfolio and a reusable template for others.
Description
Hcody is my personal website and portfolio platform designed to highlight my work, articles, certificates, and personal profile. Beyond being my digital home, the vision for Hcody was to create a flexible portfolio template that other developers could also use to showcase their work easily.
Projects
A curated portfolio of apps, open-source packages, and coding experiments.
Articles
Technical insights, tutorials, and thoughts on the latest in technology.
Certificates
A digital wall of achievements and professional recognitions.
The journey began with Flask, which was functional but costly to host. I then moved to WordPress to create a custom theme, but it lacked the fine-grained control developers crave. The ultimate challenge was building a system that wasn't just for me, but was reusable as a template for others.
I rebuilt Hcody using Laravel and Filament. This stack provided the perfect balance of cost-efficiency and absolute backend control. Filament allows for a clean, intuitive management area for projects and articles, transforming Hcody into a scalable template that any developer can now adapt and deploy.