Case study
Time Machine (Cỗ Máy Thời Gian)
A personal site for looking back on what mattered.
- Next.js
- React
- Storytelling
01
Context & users
A personal site for looking back on what mattered — written for myself first, and for readers curious about life, product and work. [TODO: intended readers]
02
The problem
Lessons, curiosities and encounters along the way are easy to lose without a place to revisit them.
03
My role
Independent build: writing, illustration direction, design and development. [TODO: confirm scope and timeline]
04
UX & product decisions
Content is organized as a journey of "stations" — Life, Product & Work, Mind, System and Radar — so each stop reads as a story rather than a feed. [TODO: why stations instead of tags or categories, wireframes, trade-offs]
05
Technical solution
Built with Next.js and React; each station is illustrated and written as a story worth revisiting. [TODO: architecture details — content source, hosting]
06
Measurable results
A living, illustrated personal journal that turns scattered notes into something worth sharing and revisiting. [TODO: real numbers — e.g. posts published, monthly readers]
07
Lessons learned
[TODO: what you learned and what you would do differently]
Have a similar problem to solve?
I take on remote freelance work as a Product Engineer — from clarifying the user problem to shipping the product.
Let's talkMore notes on how I build and what I learn along the way live on my journey blog. Read the journey blog