Fishbowl Collective is a shared-housing co-op project. I built the site in Hugo rather than WordPress and deployed it myself end-to-end on my own VPS, with an integrated Zeffy donations widget.
It’s a good example of reaching for the right tool: when a site doesn’t need a full CMS, a hand-built static site is faster, lighter, and cheaper to run. This one goes from source to production entirely on infrastructure I own and manage.
What I did
- Built a fast, lightweight static site in Hugo, hand-rolled rather than templated
- Integrated a Zeffy donations widget for fundraising
- Deployed and hosted the site end-to-end on my own VPS behind nginx
- Managed the full build-to-production pipeline myself