# kristianpapadakis.com - the founder's own site

A personal site kept deliberately separate from Presso Network and from Corey. It exists because the person and the company need different voices, and because a founder writing under their own name is the cheapest distribution a one-person business has. Corey runs the publishing routine so it does not decay.

These case studies are first-party. Corey is built by Kristian Papadakis for Presso Network, and every business covered is one of ours - not a client, not a commissioned case study.

## The facts
- Venture: Kristian's personal site - The personal site and writing of the person who builds Corey - separate from the company, on purpose.
- Status: Running
- Started: 27/02/2026
- Commits: 63
- Who did what: Built by Kristian Papadakis. Predates Corey; Corey now handles the publishing routine.
- Built with: Astro, Tailwind, Cloudflare

## What we decided
- Keep the person separate from the company: Presso Network has a site, Corey has a site, and the founder has a site. Merging them is tempting because it is less to maintain, and wrong because they speak to different people. The company voice sells a service; the personal one is where an opinion can be held without it becoming corporate policy.
- Start from an existing theme: Built on an off-the-shelf Astro theme rather than designed from nothing. A personal site is a distribution channel, not a design exercise, and the hours saved went into the businesses that make money. Not everything needs to be bespoke, and knowing which things do is most of the skill.
- Same stack as everything else: Astro on Cloudflare, matching the other public sites. One stack across the portfolio means one set of conventions, one deployment story and one place to learn a lesson, rather than four half-remembered setups.

## What got built
- A personal site and blog at 63 commits, on Astro and Cloudflare.
- Posts, projects and notes as separate content collections.
- Comments and syntax highlighting, kept lightweight.

## What Corey runs now
- The publishing routine: Drafting, editing and getting posts out on a rhythm rather than in bursts, which is the difference between a personal site that compounds and one with three posts from last year.
- Keeping it consistent with the rest: Same stack and conventions as the other sites, so a fix learned in one place is applied everywhere rather than rediscovered.

## What this became
This is the smallest project in the portfolio and it makes the clearest point. Personal writing is the first thing to slip when a business gets busy, because nothing breaks when it does - no customer complains, no invoice goes unpaid, it just quietly stops. That is exactly the class of work an operating system is for: valuable, recurring, and entirely dependent on someone remembering. Corey runs it precisely because it is the kind of thing a human stops running.

Full page: https://getcorey.ai/case-studies/kristian-papadakis