- Role: Solo — product, design, development, and editorial/community.
- Stack: Next.js (migrated from Gatsby), React. Open-source architecture.
- Context: Self-initiated digital magazine. Active newsletter and contributor community.
metaxis.digital is a digital magazine I built from scratch to make philosophy and futurism accessible, free, and collaborative, read through a metamodern lens. It’s the project where I get to be the whole stack at once —product owner, designer, developer, and editor— and where the goal was never just a website, but a place people actually return to.
On the engineering side, I designed the core architecture to be open-source so anyone can contribute, and later migrated the whole platform from Gatsby to Next.js—a deliberate move for better performance, a healthier rendering model, and a stack I could keep building on long-term rather than fight against.
But the part I’m proudest of isn’t the framework: it’s that the project grew a real audience. metaxis.digital runs an active newsletter with a steady subscriber base and a community of contributors and readers around it. Building something people choose to subscribe to —and come back to— is a different discipline from shipping a site, and this is where I learned it: turning an idea into a product with genuine pull.
Join the conversation at metaxis.digital. To collaborate, see metaxis.digital/Colabora, and the Telegram group.