voipphone.be
voipphone.be represents a radical experiment in cutting all the fluff from modern software development. The challenge: throw out 10 years of accumulated development practices and see what happens.
The constraints were extreme:
- No Git version control
- No CI/CD pipelines
- No staging environments
- No tests
- No programming languages (to avoid compilation)
- No frameworks or build tools
Instead, I used Cursor IDE connected directly to a Digital Ocean droplet via SSH, writing blog posts as single HTML files. Images came from Pexels and Bing Image Creator. Everything else was pure AI prompting to generate VoIP-related articles.
The results were remarkable: over 30 articles created in just 1-2 days, with a website that loads incredibly fast due to its simplicity.
This experiment challenged everything I thought I knew about development quality and process. It demonstrated that sometimes the simplest approach can be the most effective, especially for content-heavy projects.
The project became a catalyst for pushing AI adoption harder at my company, proving that AI can dramatically accelerate development when we're willing to question our assumptions about "proper" development practices.
Key insights:
- Speed vs. process trade-offs in AI-assisted development
- The power of constraints in forcing innovation
- Direct deployment can be liberating
- AI content generation at scale
- Performance benefits of radical simplicity
- Questioning established development orthodoxy