BlackWindBooks

A print on demand website for ordering books I've made.

See it in production here:

=> BlackWindBooks.com

Motivation

I wanted to sell my books. I wanted to publish zines. I wanted to learn NextJS. I wanted a passive income stream. I *despised* the obtrusive and terrible UX for most eCommerce websites. I also despised the modern ISBN ecosystem and how it's required to own an ISBN and to gate books to a particular platform via an ISBN number- and how the ISBN authority masquerades as the standard for book identification, when in reality it becomes another tax upon book authors.

Thesis: Write works and publish them on a blog for digital consumption

Antithesis: Write works and submit them to a magazine for physical publication

Synthesis: Write works and publish both digitally and in physical form, as both creator and publisher.

Tech

Uses the following tech stack:

• React
• NextJS
• NodeJS
• Tailwind CSS
• VPS For server hosting, email server hosting
• My own werc app for RSS feed for updates
• Git
• APIs(Stripe Integration, LuluAPI Integration)

This is a small tech stack.

One will observe this is a very simple tech stack. Yes.