---
title: "Notes"
description: "Every note Aayush Manchanda has published, newest first, with the full text of each one."
canonical: "https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/notes"
source: "https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/notes.md"
last-updated: 2026-08-26
---

# Notes

Every note Aayush Manchanda has published, newest first, with the full text of each one.

Source: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/notes

Note bodies are reproduced as written. A link inside one that starts with a slash is a path on this site, so resolve it against the Source URL above.

## Building this site

date: 2026-08-26, type: musing
Page: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/notes/building-this-site

I built this site overnight, mostly by telling agents what I wanted and then reading what they wrote back.

The part I care about is [the pipeline](/experiments). I save a link from my phone and a few hours later it turns up here with a screenshot next to it. No dashboard, no drafts folder. That was the whole point. Every system I have walked away from broke in the same place: it asked me to sit down and do a second job after the first one was already done.

Verdicts carry a date because opinions go stale. I liked something for a week in March. That tells you very little about whether I still open it. If [a tool](/tools) is sitting at "using" with an old date beside it, read that as a warning rather than a recommendation.

I think most personal sites are a pitch. This one is closer to a log, and I would rather be caught being boring than caught being impressive.

## Other pages

- Home: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/index.md
- Tools: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/tools.md
- Sites: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/sites.md
- Experiments: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/experiments.md
- Site summary for agents: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/llms.txt
- Every URL the site publishes: https://aayushmanchandacom.vercel.app/sitemap-index.xml