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1 year agoI think if you can achieve what you want with HTML, CSS and JavaScript by yourself, any static site generator will allow you to do it. They just automate filling in HTML templates, which you can create yourself too.
I know Hugo. It’s simple and, as I mentioned, I do by myself what I don’t find out there.
I from time to time do something like what you are looking for, I believe. But I also think that it’s going to be difficult to find those “solid specifications you might get from a customer”.
What I do is to start a project that usually reinvents the wheel, so you know exactly what is needed, and focus on experimenting at different levels as you said: architecture, project management, design, UI, coding, CI/CD, pipelines, quality, etc. You also end up learning a lot about the problem itself.
For me the goal of those projects has not traditionally be to release something and create the next startup, but to experiment and have some fun. In my last project I also tried OpenFastTrack, which is a tool for gathering requirements and tracking their completion in the repository.
It was a lot of fun. Maybe this sounds good to you, and the truth is I have been looking forward to collaborate with others with the same approach, to also introduce the “autonomous team” factor to the experimentation 🙂.