Bel's Library of Friends

Built by Sam Β· The Strat Commune

Yes β€” I can make you one.

Bel's party site was built in a handful of evenings: an invite, an RSVP that remembers you, a collaborative drawing eighty people can sign, file uploads, scheduled emails and a back office to run it all from. That's roughly the size of thing I like making.

The whole thing

Design, build, domain, email, hosting. One person, so there's nothing lost between the mockup and the thing that ships.

Fast, and actually finished

Working software on a real domain in days, not a deck. It handles the awkward parts β€” spam folders, phones, people who lose the link.

Made for the occasion

No templates. The shape of the site comes from what it's for, which is why this one is a forest and a library rather than a form.

Recent work

Entry No. 01 Β· this site

Bel's Library of Friends

A birthday party where every guest gives a four-minute talk. Handles RSVPs, topics, slide uploads, a shared drawing whose messages stay sealed until the day, and the reminder emails that keep it all moving.

Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, Resend. Built in a few evenings.

Look around

Entry No. 02 Β· private

A memorial site

One place for the family to put what everyone keeps asking β€” times, address, what's happening next β€” instead of retelling it forty times. Underneath, somewhere for everyone else to leave messages and memories. Details kept private, at the family's request.

Written once, not forty times β€” and no accounts, no noise, nothing to work out.

Entry No. 03 Β· private app

Penny

A personal finance tracker for the phone. Snap a receipt or type it in seconds, across currencies, keeping personal and business apart β€” and share a household with one other person without sharing everything.

Built for the thirty seconds after you pay β€” however your hands happen to be occupied.

Entry No. 04 Β· private app

Horizon

One screen for a working day: calendar, inboxes, chat, notes and tasks in a single view, with the ability to act on any of it β€” reply, schedule, archive, capture β€” without opening six tabs.

Everything actionable where it sits β€” no tab hopping to get through a day.

Get in touch

What are you making?

A party, a wedding, a memorial, a launch, a tool only you need β€” if it should exist on the internet by a particular date, tell me about it.

Or write to β€” click to copy.

A stylised preview β€” these are private apps, so this shows the shape of the thing rather than anyone's actual data.