My portfolio was frozen for five years.
One evening, it was mine again

My portfolio froze in 2020

My site lived on Adobe Portfolio. The subscription renewed every month, and the site didn't move for five years. My best work wasn't on it. The portfolio always waited for the end of the work, for when there'd be time. Which meant never.

First, I pulled my work into my own folder

"Download my entire Adobe Portfolio site, all pages, all images, all assets, into a clean organized folder on my computer."

The first instruction I gave the agent

Within minutes it held 19 projects and hundreds of images. For the first time, my work was mine. The agent studied the old site, pulled out its design language and rebuilt everything as plain files, with no subscription.

Two hours hunting a bug in something that wasn't broken

The site went live that same evening, on free hosting the agent recommended. Two days later it was suspended for using too much traffic. The second attempt got stuck at sign in. On the third, everything looked right, and meravish.com still showed the old host's error page.

I checked everything for two hours. The old company was still holding my address somewhere I couldn't see. Only deleting the account there released it, and thirty seconds later the site loaded.

Moving a site off Netlify? Removing the domain isn't enough. Delete the account.

The agent was there, so the case study was already written

I built the agent a memory file it reads at the start of every conversation: how the site is built, the design language, every lesson along the way. Each conversation picks up exactly where the last one ended.

Every change is checked on my computer first, and nothing goes live without my approval. The agent already knows what I tried, what I chose and what I threw away, so the case study isn't written after the fact. It's pulled from what already happened.

Every correction of mine became a rule

Every note I gave the agent went into one book of rules, so every new page reads as the next page of the last. The brand book came out of those rules, and everything in it is taken from the site itself.

Now I build everything this way

The rebuild was just the first evening. During 2026, six products and sites went live this way. The portfolio isn't something I maintain anymore. It's what's left behind every time I build.

Then I packaged this path for others

Promtfolio is the same path as a guided hour. Paste a link to the old portfolio, see it rebuilt, and leave with a site whose code, domain and hosting stay yours.