How I Maintain My Personal Website Just by Chatting From My Phone

Creating a personal website had been on my mind for a very long time.

I always wanted to have a small corner on the internet where I could write about things I learn, experiences I have, and random ideas that I find interesting.

But somehow, I never actually started.

Until now.

With the tools available today, I realised that creating and publishing a website doesn't have to be a big project anymore.

So I decided to just do it.

From an idea to a website

I started by creating a basic website using Claude.

Nothing complicated. Just a simple personal website with the structure and content I wanted.

Once I had something I was happy with, I bought my domain and deployed the website using Vercel.

The hosting is free, and the setup was surprisingly straightforward.

I also wanted a professional email address, so I configured an email provider to forward emails sent to:

hello@jithubenny.com

to my personal email address.

And that was basically it.

The website was online.

I probably spent more time thinking about creating a personal website over the years than I actually spent building it.

Then I wanted automation

Once the website was working, I thought:

"If I change something, I want it to be deployed automatically."

Since the website was already connected to GitHub, setting this up was simple.

My workflow became:

Write → Commit/Push → Vercel deploys automatically → Website updated

Every time I push changes to the main branch, Vercel automatically builds and deploys the latest version.

For a personal website, that's more than enough.

But then I discovered another problem.

I became too lazy to open my laptop. 😅

Why do I still need my laptop?

After having everything automated, I started thinking:

"Why do I still need to open my laptop just to publish a blog post?"

Sometimes I get an idea while I'm away from my computer.

I don't necessarily want to wait until I get home, open my laptop, create a Markdown file, commit it, push it, and then check the website.

I wanted something much simpler.

Have an idea → write it → publish it.

That's when I remembered the GitHub mobile app.

Publishing from my phone

I installed the GitHub mobile app and used Copilot to work directly with my repository.

Instead of opening my laptop, I could simply type what I wanted to publish and ask Copilot to create the blog post in my repository.

And then…

Boom. 🚀

Within seconds, the content appeared on my website.

The reason is that the rest of the workflow was already automated.

The process looked like this:

📱 Phone
↓
GitHub Copilot
↓
GitHub repository
↓
Vercel detects the change
↓
Automatic build & deployment
↓
🌐 Blog post is live

All from my phone.

No laptop. No manual deployment. No server management.

Why I found this interesting

Maybe none of this is new to you.

There are probably many people already using similar workflows.

But I found it interesting because something I had been postponing for years became a small project that I could put together in a relatively short time.

And now I have a personal website where I can publish whenever I have something worth sharing, without needing a complicated CMS or spending time managing servers.

It also made me realise how much the development workflow has changed.

A few years ago, I might have spent a significant amount of time setting up hosting, deployment, email, publishing workflows, and everything around the website.

Today, a combination of AI tools, GitHub, and platforms like Vercel can remove a lot of that initial friction.

The technology isn't necessarily the most interesting part.

The interesting part is how much easier it has become to go from an idea to something real.

Just start

If you've been thinking about creating a personal website, my advice is simple:

Just start.

It doesn't have to be perfect.

You don't need to build everything from scratch.

• Start with a basic website.
• Connect a domain.
• Deploy it.
• Write something.
• Improve it as you go.

You can always add automation later.

For me, the most satisfying part isn't even the website itself.

It's knowing that I can now have an idea, pick up my phone, write it down, ask Copilot to turn it into a blog post, and have it appear on my website shortly afterwards.

Idea → Content → Published. 🚀

And honestly, that makes me much more likely to keep writing.

If you're interested in setting up something similar and want to know how I configured it, feel free to reach out. I'd be happy to share what I learned.