Let's go back to the early days of the internet, when creative Flash websites were all the rage. You know, the time before everything started looking like a Bootstrap website, a Wordpress template, or a Medium theme. Websites used to surprise you. They had intros and soundtracks and little worlds to poke around in. Somewhere along the way we traded all of that for uniformity.
I think we can have the fun back now. Thanks to the power of AI, developers today are able to build cooler experiences in less time than has ever been possible before.
Consider this. In about a week, I built the 2D version of the devSteve.com website that you're reading right now. I built the 3D version of the site, a walkable gallery with its own streets and shops. And I built a handful of other 3D environments to show just how customizable each experience can be. None of this would have been possible without Claude Code. Claude did most of the heavy lifting, I just steered the ship, so to speak.
I also handled things like Git commits, test runs, QA, production deployments, and providing a general theme description of each 3D environment, but Claude Code pretty much did the rest.
The current lineup
If you care to see them for yourself, this site currently hosts the following custom 3D experiences. Each one gets its own environment, NPC dialogs, treasure hunt checklists, and social preview images. Click any card to step inside.
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A 3D Realtor's Office
A walkable showroom with accurate scale 3D models of the realtor's current listings.
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A 3D Tire Shop
A tire and auto shop modeled to resemble the real-world business, service bays and all.
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A Ride on the NCR Trail
A virtual memory of my dad riding his bike on his favorite trail in Maryland.
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Zumba with Roqui
A marketing page for a Zumba dance fitness instructor, complete with a class you can join.
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Putt Putt with Mom and Dad
A virtual memory of a family playing pirate-themed miniature golf on vacation.
Two of these were built as sales and marketing tools, and the others were built to honor people I love. That range is kind of the whole point. The same approach that can showcase a business's storefront can also preserve a memory of a bike trail or a family vacation.
The web used to be a place you explored, not just a place you scrolled. I think it can be that place again, and it turns out the door back is open to anyone willing to build with these new tools. If you'd like a custom 3D experience of your own, for your business or for someone you love, I'd be happy to hear from you.