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*Space Sites: Personal Pages Powered by Discord and SvelteKit

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A behind-the-scenes look at how I’m combining Cloudflare, SvelteKit, and Discord to help *Space members publish their thoughts to a public web page—just by messaging a bot.

For the past few weeks, I’ve been building something fun and a little magical for *Space: A way for any member to create their own personal website at my.starspace.group/{slug} where they can post updates about their progress...

The idea is to make public self-expression as frictionless as possible for *Space members, and to lean into tools we already love and use every day. No separate login, no fiddling with HTML. Just open Discord, talk to the My *Space bot, and your words show up on your public page.

How It Will Work

At the core, it’s a SvelteKit app running on Cloudflare Pages, using Cloudflare KV for fast, lightweight storage. When a *Space member sends a note to the My *Space bot on Discord, the message will get parsed and saved in KV, associated with their Discord ID and a personal slug (like my.starspace.group/davis9001).

Then, anyone will be able to visit that URL and see the notes that member has chosen to share. It’s like a living notebook that updates in real time from the place where our community is already hanging out and chatting.

Any member of *Space will be able to create their page at my.starspace.group/{slug} by visiting the website https://my.starspace.group.

The Stack

This project uses a few of my favorite things:

  • SvelteKit for its speed, simplicity, and flexibility.
  • Cloudflare Workers + KV for cost-effective serverless hosting and storage.
  • Discord OAuth for login, ensuring that only verified *Space members can manage their pages.
  • The Discord API to connect messages from the My *Space bot to published page.

It’s all serverless, which means it scales well without me having to worry about ops. And it keeps the barrier low—something important when building tools for a community where not everyone is technical.

Why This Matters

*Space is about more than coworking. It’s a platform for mutual support, growth, and creativity. Giving each member their own small corner of the web where they can share their notes, ideas, or even a random thought they had during lunch—it’s part of the vision. This app makes that easy.

We expect people will use it to:

  • Post progress updates on projects
  • Share reading lists
  • Reflect on personal growth
  • Share their goals and dreams for work and life

And it's only just beginning.

Coming Soon

Eventually I want to allow user's to sign up directly using the bot, have updates update the page in realtime, run a /timebox command that allows users to set a time limit for a task or project, and more.