I built a Myst-style portfolio site because I'm tired of every AI website looking the same
I was experimenting with the new Claude Design alongside Claude Code for a work project recently, and somewhere in the middle of it I got hit by an old frustration: so many AI websites look the same right now. Same grid, same fonts, same dark mode toggle. It made me nostalgic for the early internet, when people had quirky little sites, when buttons looked like real, physical buttons, and when a site's whole purpose could just be to exist, not to convert visitors into sales.
So I started wondering if I could make something like that with Claude. It began as a small experiment in generating real-looking objects, and pretty quickly evolved into something bigger: a website that looks and functions like one of my all-time favorite games, Myst. (Plus Riven and Tricky Doors, if you've ever fallen into that point-and-click puzzle-game hole.) The whole appeal of those games, to me, is wandering around a beautiful world clicking on stuff and going "okay… what the hell does this lever do?" "What happens if I click on this bookshelf?"
So I sat down with that idea and Claude, used ChatGPT image 2 to generate the room itself and Veo 3.1 for the little looping touches, and three days later I had a brand new portfolio site.
Click around, explore, see if you can find the easter eggs. I'd love your feedback. Thanks!