About six months ago — November 2025 — I started a small "make a clean That thing is QuickSite: A file-based, API-first website operations platform with a visual PHP, runs on Apache or Nginx, no database. JSON files on disk are the I'm sharing it now because I genuinely didn't think it would go this far. What it tries to be (and stay): Open source forever — GNU AGPL v3. Zero dependencies — works without any. The recent BYOK/local LLM integration is opt-in and ships with a no-AI fallback path so the promise still holds. No lock-in — your project is plain JSON + PHP files in a folder. Walk away with it whenever you want; no proprietary export, no database to dump. Reachable beyond developers — the visual editor is the primary surface. You don't need to read PHP to build a site. Multi-layer learning — every visual action surfaces the underlying concept (selectors, events, CSS variables, JSON structures) so curious users naturally pick up real web fundamentals along the way. Not a black box. Frontend-first, API integration coming — beta.7 wires pages to live data; beta.8 makes those pages server-rendered for SEO/AEO. Yes, AEO — when LLM-driven discovery becomes a meaningful chunk of traffic, structured server-rendered content matters even more than it already does. I post a 1-2 week dev log on YouTube about whatever I just built — no Repo (the README answers most of the obvious questions): https://github.com/Sangiovanni/quicksite Dev log playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLULtElcjV8r-o8uVM9bS86ZYk0rvKuZwL This is openly self-promotion; I won't pretend otherwise. But it's also genuinely "tell me what breaks" — feedback at this stage is much more valuable than stars.