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Building a full portfolio site in 7 hours without sight

AI-assisted web design, accessibility, and personal brand: what worked and how quality was checked.

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Archive publication: the results, tool limitations and plans described here reflect the time of the original text.

In early March, I heard about a web design skill. I wanted to see whether I could build a complete website as a blind person.

Previously, I had to use templates, and there was still a risk that everything would fall apart.

The result: I built web3blind.xyz in about seven hours.

It introduces me and my main areas of work: web3, development, and working with AI models and agents. There is an FAQ and a chat.

This would have taken several days before!

The lesson involved building a simple website with content and design. But I wanted to add multilingual support: Russian and English.

That made everything harder. For some reason, the AI model would not add and update content properly in both languages. It would forget the English translation or display it incorrectly.

I could have avoided that by following my usual workflow, with planning and the other steps. But I was so inspired and eager at the time that I ignored that rule.

As a result, it took longer than it could have.

Of course, choosing the right models also matters. Otherwise the quality suffers.

Oddly enough, GPT 5.3 Codex could not produce a decent design in this task, while Minimax could.

GPT Codex made the page completely black and broke a few other things. I had to fix it with Minimax afterward. Apparently Codex is a fan of Gothic style 🙂.

Although Minimax is not particularly good at complex coding tasks.

The takeaway:

Always learn which models are suitable for which tasks. You also need good prompts and a step-by-step process.

P.S. The funniest part is that I also managed to make an assistant chat for answering questions without writing code or using libraries myself. Of course, it is not a particularly professional implementation: there is no answers database, no data about me and no handoff to me. But that is where it stands for now.

What happens to the website next?

I will either expand it into a multipage site and update the AI chat, or build a complete web3blind portal with user accounts, my articles and posts, tasks and more. I am still thinking about it.

What do you think of the site, and how would you like to see it expanded? What would you use on my web resource: reading articles, project analysis, working with services, completing tasks, or something else?

Have you built websites with AI? What was your experience?

Source: original Russian post on VK. English translation.