Building a Serverless Blogging Platform with AWS and Claude Code

How I replaced Hashnode with a custom-built, full-featured blogging platform in under 10 hours - with an AI pair programmer doing the heavy lifting. You can see the new site here -> Darryl's World of Cloud . Why I Left My Old Platform For the past couple of years, I hosted my blog on Hashnode with a Vercel-backed custom domain. It worked. Articles rendered fine, the editor was decent, and I didn't have to think about infrastructure. But over time, the limitations started adding up. Newsletters were the first frustration. Setting up a mailing list, customizing email templates, and scheduling sends all required workarounds or third-party integrations. Email handling felt like an afterthought bolted onto a developer blogging platform. I wanted to send article roundups, curated link collections, and freeform newsletters - all from the same place I write articles. There wasn't an easy way to make all that work there. Then there was the visibility problem. I am a cloud solutions architect. I