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About

Some of these got rejected. They're still here.

Munir, sitting

Two of the sites in the archive were pitched to real people who said no. I kept them anyway, dates and all, because leaving out the misses would make the rest look easier than it was. That's the rule for the whole site: real numbers, real dates, nothing smoothed over for the portfolio version. If a client passed, it says so.

Coarse Coffee, 2023
Webflow Custom Made Reality, 2023
Webflow

Spec work

Both were built on spec: no client, no brief, just a bet that a finished site would win the work. It didn't, either time, though I'd still rather pitch that way than with a deck, and next time I'd spend less effort on the part nobody asked for.

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The tools

I started the way a lot of self-taught people did, then went further back than the front end for a stretch building applications in Django, with React on top, a different job from making a site: it's where I learned what the layer underneath is actually doing while a page builder pretends it isn't there. The sites, tool by tool, are below.

2011 to 2026 Django, React: 2023 to 2025

Typical build, by tool. Not a per-project measurement.

  1. Hand-coded HTML, CSS, jQuery, Bootstrap 1 to 2 weeks 2011 to 2019
  2. WordPress about 1 week 2011 to 2019
  3. Wix about 1 week 2011 to 2019
  4. Shopify 2 to 3 weeks 2011 to 2019
  5. Webflow 2 weeks 2020 to 2024
  6. Framer 2 weeks 2023 to 2025
  7. Claude Code 2 days 2025 to present
  • Shopify: Scope, not tool speed: commerce configuration, not a brochure site.

Different grammar every time: hand-written markup, someone else's template, an application, a canvas, now a description. None of them made me better at this. They just kept changing what the work looked like while the judgment underneath stayed put.

Since data science

Data science changed what I reach for first, a question now instead of a layout, but not the instinct underneath it: find the shape inside the mess and make it visible. That's true enough for me that I built a whole animation around it instead of just saying so.

Munir Labs, 2026
Claude Code

What's not here

I've been building websites since 2011. Most of what I made over that time isn't in this archive. Other designers have since redone a lot of it, past the point where more than half of the original work survives, so I can't honestly call the current version mine anymore. I'd rather leave a site out than claim work that isn't.

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The point

Nothing here is for hire, and nothing is a case study. That's what Munir Labs is for. This is just what I've made, including the parts that didn't land.