Starting from the foundation

This week, I shipped the first version of the new theodorosampas.com foundation.

Not a redesign. Not a portfolio update.

A new structure for documenting what I build, what breaks, what I learn, and what I try next.

For a long time, this site was too close to a company website. It talked mostly about websites, SEO, and SimplySites. Useful, but not the full picture.

The bigger idea is simpler:

I build businesses, products, and systems — and I want to document the journey properly.

So before publishing regular Build Logs, I created the context first:

• Timeline — where the journey started and how the thinking evolved
• Builds — the companies, products, open-source work, and experiments I am building
• this site as a living build
• SimplySites — one of the companies behind the work

Built

The new Timeline and Builds pages are live.

They are not meant to be static portfolio pages. They are the base layer for everything that comes next.

Broke

Nothing major broke this week — but the old site structure was the problem.

It made the work look smaller than it is.

Learned

Building in public needs a container first. Without Timeline and Builds, every weekly note would float without context.

Testing

This Build Log format — Built · Broke · Learned · Testing · Interesting — as a weekly rhythm.

Interesting

The site is finally starting to match how I actually work: builder first, services second.