Saturday, May 16, 2026

Killed the two-frontend split. Public site and admin collapsed into one app. Three prior architecture decisions superseded in one morning.

builddaily.io had been running as two separate apps — a static site for the public content and a separate app for the admin console. That split made sense for about a week. Stopped making sense the moment the admin needed the same content the public site renders.

Collapsed both into one. Public routes at the root, admin behind /admin with a sign-in gate. 43 routes, one deploy.

Shipped

• Unified builddaily.io — public + admin under one deploy
• 43 routes rendering cleanly

Notes

Three prior architecture decisions got superseded today. Not a count of mistakes — the cost of locking architecture early on a product whose shape is still moving.