32,000 lines of code in 60 days: notes from building beam.page

Beam.page is a static-hosting platform whose front door is an MCP server, with a thin web UI alongside for the things that benefit from one. You talk to whichever AI client you already use — Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI — and it calls the platform's tools; your site lands at <slug>.beam.page or a custom domain. You can change anything later by asking, through any of the same clients, on the go. Here is the story of building it over the last sixty days. The pipeline...