So I wanted to go for simplicity, and when I saw Brian's site (brianlovin.com), I loved it. I copied it and decided to continue that way. The reason I copied it is because his site is already open source. Also, there are some things I want to add.
I used Next.js and Notion for CMS. Notion is a little bit slow but that's okay i just put some cache things.
I finished the simplified version in 3 days. I will start adding new features in the coming days.
It is entirely inspired by Brian's site.