Product Weekend September 2026 - ELI5
Another Product Weekend, another small project shipped!This time I decided to build something different. Not another AI tool, but a simple knowledge website called ELI5.sg.
The idea is simple. We come across quite a few Singapore-specific terms in everyday life, but it's surprisingly hard to find straightforward explanations for them.
So I thought, why not build a website that explains these things in plain English? For the tech stack, I went with Astro, Markdown and Cloudflare. Nothing complicated. Each explanation is a Markdown file, which makes it easy to add new content without a CMS or database.
The website itself wasn't too difficult to build. The harder part was structuring the content properly, especially for SEO and making it accessible to AI agents. I also spent a lot of time thinking about how to make the site feel more local rather than like another generic knowledge base.
Managed to get ELI5.sg launched on September 14!
One thing I realised while building this is that the underlying engine could potentially be reused for other niche knowledge websites. With the same Astro and Markdown setup, I could probably launch another content site without starting from scratch.
Of course, getting the website live is just the beginning. Still need to work on content, indexing and figuring out whether people will actually find it useful.
Not sure how this one will turn out, especially since SEO takes time. But that's the point of Product Weekend, I guess. Pick an idea, build something small, and ship it instead of leaving it in the idea backlog.
Another experiment shipped. We'll see how it goes!