A web platform where any author can claim their own URL, describe a mood in plain language, and generate a theme for their work with AI. I shipped the entire stack — frontend, backend, infrastructure — end to end, without a co-engineer in the loop.
The seed was DeerDevil, a single-author novel viewer I hand-tuned for one Korean dark-fairy-tale anthology — twelve episodes, a typography of its own, antler-shaped dividers, and a typewriter-paced opening. Over a season it became the visual canon for a platform: any writer can claim a slug at /{author}, describe a mood in plain Korean, and watch the platform return an AI-generated theme that applies that mood to the work. The original DeerDevil still ships at its own slug, as the design reference every other writer's space is measured against.
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