Website For Stablewatch Solutions

I utilized GitHub Copilot (Claude) to vibe code a website, learn how to create a repository and save the website into GitHub from Visual Code, create GitHub Issues, configure an AWS S3 bucket to act as my website’s storage, and configure Cloudfront so I could use HTTPS. I did all of this in like half a day.

Stablewatch Solutions LLC is my consulting startup that centers around data migrations in the legal industry. It is basically what I do now, just free-lance. The plan is to de-mothball it if needed and pursue self-employment. I’ve had the stablewatch.solutions URL reserved for some time and a generic WordPress instance assigned to it via Lightsail. I have done nothing else with it other than that, so I decided to use a day off work and just see what I could do with GitHub Copilot to build a website, then that morphed into accomplishing a few other goals.

GitHub

I have both Visual Code and GitHub Desktop on my PC, but I do not have a use case to learn how to use them better. I used GC to attach GitHub Copilot to VS Code so I could build out my website. I then used it to learn how to create a repository correctly in GitHub itself. After creating my website, I pushed that up into the repository and then learned how to push up and commit changes. I wanted my repository to look professional, so it had me create a README and add meaningful commit messages on my submissions.

After creating a repository I also wanted to track changes. I used GitHub issues, which I found to be fairly easy to use. My understanding is you can link your commits to issues for tracking, and potentially use an agent to code what is in the issue itself.

Website Design

The website itself is a standard website that Claude creates. I changed the color scheme to match the color rust that I use in this blog. I also leaned on OpenAI ChatGPT to create the business language that I would use in the website, so I just hand keyed that into the HTML page. It is a pretty website, with rounded edges, modern font, and a clean design. My understanding is many websites look like this now because everyone is using the same tool.

AWS

After creating my website I wanted to utilize my custom URL and make it secure by using HTTPS. For here I actually utilized Google Gemini in the browser to walk me through the configurations, including setting up Cloudfront, the certificate, the S3 bucket, and Route53 cleanup that needed to do. I was so excited to see my webpage take life and so quickly! It was a fun project to take on while home recovering from a few days outside during a heat wave.