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Creating a stunning personal site on Notion from scratch in 50 minutes ✨
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Creating a stunning personal site on Notion from scratch in 50 minutes ✨

After I bombed my "Notion Websites" livestream, I re-recorded a video where I built my personal website from scratch in 50 minutes.

Tem Nugmanov
Nov 23, 2020
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Here’s the final product: optemization.com/temirlan

Last Wednesday, I bombed my “How to build a website on Notion” livestream.

It was one of the more embarrassing moments of my life. I barely scrambled through the live build while 159 people watched me say “umm”, “you know” and “right” way too many times. My self-consciousness was exacerbated by the very few chat messages and a dwindling number of active participants. If you attended, I’m sorry you had to witness this.

I bombed because I didn’t prepare enough. The idea was to introduce folks to the mechanics of building a public Notion website and then, actually create a personal portfolio website from scratch. Yes, write the copy and design from nothing, at the same time. Turns out, it’s a shit plan because when I opened an empty Notion page, I panicked and couldn’t flex my brain to come up with anything.

I should have pre-written the copy and at least came up with a design wireframe or mockup beforehand. That’s what I did on the second session, which was better but still sucky due to streaming tech issues. Ten minutes into the talk, I realized that Firefox doesn’t play well with Crowdcast on two desktops, so I had to break up the event to fix that.

Anyway, I still think that the idea of this video is pretty good because it shows how easy and fast it is to build a Notion website, so I re-recorded it here. Take a look and let me know what you think :)

I also mentioned these tools:

  • SnackThis to create cool text-based cover images

  • Pastebot to sequentially copy/paste and look up stuff clipped

  • Alfred to search my mac and fast

  • TextExpander to save and paste common phrases and URLs

  • Super for Notion hosting

Thanks for reading, happy Thanksgiving and ttyl 👋

This post was originally published on Optemization on Sunday, November 22nd

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Ailish Irvine
Nov 23, 2020Liked by Tem Nugmanov

It takes courage to admit all that. It's never easy to do live tech demos. I do them all the time and it's important to take time to talk to your audience so you don't feel like you're talking to yourself That's nerve wracking. Good for you, keep going.

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