MaxFelker.com should become the durable home for Max's ideas, articles, projects, and professional identity. The site should work like a personal publishing platform first: a place people can visit, share, revisit, and cite directly.
The site should make it obvious that Max is a creative, solution-first leader who connects business, product, design, engineering, and delivery. Visitors should be able to quickly understand who Max is, see his latest thinking, read full articles at permanent links, and follow through to GitHub, LinkedIn, email, or other content destinations.
Medium can provide distribution, but it does not build the same long-term brand authority as publishing from Max's own domain. The goal is for people to share article links on MaxFelker.com and associate the idea directly with MaxFelker.com.
The site needs durable content, simple navigation, readable article pages, social sharing support, and analytics. The site should feel simple, intentional, and text-first in Phase 1.
A visitor should be able to land on MaxFelker.com, see the latest articles near the top of the page, click into a full article, share that article in social channels or text messages, and get a clean preview that clearly represents the article. The site should also include a short About page that explains who Max is in a human, direct voice rather than sounding like a generic professional bio.
Phase 1 should focus on article publishing and deeplinking support. Articles should be authored as Markdown files in an articles directory that sits alongside src. The website should read those files, render them into full article pages, and expose durable article URLs.
The home page should remain simple and text-forward. It should include a short introduction, the latest articles, and clear links to learn more about Max. The About page should contain a few concise paragraphs about Max as a creative, multidisciplinary, solution-first leader who works with curiosity, kindness, quality, and directness.
Phase 1 should make the site a strong publishing platform first, because the content is the product.
Acceptance criteria
- The site has feature issues explicitly connected to this epic in GitHub.
- Phase 1 defines the content platform foundation for MaxFelker.com.
- The scope includes article listing, article detail pages, Markdown authoring, social previews, SMS unfurling, analytics, and a concise About page.
- The product direction makes MaxFelker.com the canonical home for Max's writing and ideas.
MaxFelker.com should become the durable home for Max's ideas, articles, projects, and professional identity. The site should work like a personal publishing platform first: a place people can visit, share, revisit, and cite directly.
The site should make it obvious that Max is a creative, solution-first leader who connects business, product, design, engineering, and delivery. Visitors should be able to quickly understand who Max is, see his latest thinking, read full articles at permanent links, and follow through to GitHub, LinkedIn, email, or other content destinations.
Medium can provide distribution, but it does not build the same long-term brand authority as publishing from Max's own domain. The goal is for people to share article links on MaxFelker.com and associate the idea directly with MaxFelker.com.
The site needs durable content, simple navigation, readable article pages, social sharing support, and analytics. The site should feel simple, intentional, and text-first in Phase 1.
A visitor should be able to land on MaxFelker.com, see the latest articles near the top of the page, click into a full article, share that article in social channels or text messages, and get a clean preview that clearly represents the article. The site should also include a short About page that explains who Max is in a human, direct voice rather than sounding like a generic professional bio.
Phase 1 should focus on article publishing and deeplinking support. Articles should be authored as Markdown files in an articles directory that sits alongside src. The website should read those files, render them into full article pages, and expose durable article URLs.
The home page should remain simple and text-forward. It should include a short introduction, the latest articles, and clear links to learn more about Max. The About page should contain a few concise paragraphs about Max as a creative, multidisciplinary, solution-first leader who works with curiosity, kindness, quality, and directness.
Phase 1 should make the site a strong publishing platform first, because the content is the product.
Acceptance criteria