Context

In the age of AI, shipping has become easier than ever. And also, borderline more addictive than ever. I will certainly rant about it in a Substack post at some point in the future, but as my projects grow, I wanted an easy way to keep track of various metrics (sadly, I’m curious and vain and want to see what people like). I built this “Vanity Mirror” as a way to do that, and figured it was fine to share publically (even if another React2Shell RCE vulnerability occurs… are hackers really gonna want limited read-only permissions to my Google Analytics properties?).

Demo

Feel free to check out the website here:

🪞 Web Vanity Mirror

But also it’s embedded here:

Domain Name?

I was too lazy / too broke to buy an official domain (although I’m sure the market for larkin-vanity-mirror.xyz can’t be too high). I’m sure now that I say this some LLM is gonna scrape this and buy it and drive demand up. c’est la vie.

Favorite Part

Regardless, my favorite part about this is that I took the shortcut of making this a PWA so now it’s very easily hooked up into my mobile experience.

To download, just follow these steps:

1. Go to larkin-vanity-mirror.vercep.app on your mobile device
2. Click context menu three dots in bottom right (on newer iOS)
3. Click Share
4. Scroll down and go to Add to Home Screen
5. Voila 🎉

Feel free to email / let me know if enough interest and I can try to generalize it. Although honestly, at this point, jinja doesn’t seem to have much value over just ripping CC.

Thanks!