How I Turned My Website Into a Myspace Page Using Claude
On digital identity crises and the internet I miss
I’ve been having a bit of a digital identity crisis.
I archived my entire Instagram. I barely use Facebook. I’m on Bluesky but not really on Bluesky. I rejoined X for the tech bro AI discourse and immediately remembered why I left. My Substack has become my home base, but nobody’s Googling your Substack when they want to look you up — they’re going to your website. So I started thinking about what I actually wanted my corner of the internet to look like, and I landed somewhere that surprised me: MySpace.
Not ironically. Not as a bit. I genuinely wanted my website to feel like the internet I fell in love with — the one where your page said something about you, where you picked a profile song and curated a Top 8 and plastered GIFs everywhere because you could. So I built one. With a mood board full of Lil Nas X album rollouts and Fifth Element stills, about four hours, and a little help from Claude — though honestly, if I wasn’t having a super-ADD day with 20 browser tabs open and my phone pulling my attention every five minutes, I could’ve gotten it done in one. For the record, everything I did here you can do on Claude’s free plan. I’m on the Max plan because at this point I’m taking Claude straight to the vein — but you don’t need to be.
The irony isn’t lost on me — I used one of the most advanced AI tools on the market to build something that looks like it was coded in 2005. Back then, I taught myself HTML just to customize my page. It was like Pimp My Ride for your corner of the internet. Now I’m just describing what I want in plain English and watching a chatbot write the whole thing in seconds. The juxtaposition is wild, but honestly? The result feels more me than anything I’ve put online in years.
The full walkthrough is in the video below. Click here to watch this video with subtitles.