As the artist behind Pixel Farmer, I’ve been playing with low-poly voxel characters, farming metaphors, and internet microbrand parody for a while. So I figured—why not actually make the site? A real-looking fake shop, for imaginary cube-based commerce.

The idea was simple: take my whimsical Cubie People NFT project and turn it into a full-blown ecommerce experience. Not for real sales (yet?), but as a tongue-in-cheek portfolio piece that also shows I know my way around design, animation, and code.

I fired up Cursor (the AI-powered code editor) and pasted in an old starter project I’d made in VS Code—a very basic portfolio site with some Pixel Farmer art already baked in. Then I told Claude: “Turn this into a fake ecommerce site about Cubie Farmers selling cubes.”

And boy did it.

In less than an hour, I had a working prototype: hero section, product grid, cart UI (fake), and even some filler marketing copy that sounded suspiciously earnest. I swapped in some intentionally ridiculous placeholder content, wrote up fake stories for the Cubie Workers, and leaned into the weird. Suddenly I had the bones of a satire site that looked almost too legit.

From there, I cleaned things up—replaced the boilerplate text, added real animations and voxel renders from my collection, styled it out with Tailwind, and deployed to Vercel.

The result is pixelfarmer.vercel.app: part fake store, part portfolio piece, part comedy, though now I’m looking into turning it into something more real.

Anyway, it’s a reminder that AI tools can accelerate the boring bits, leaving you more time to play, explore, and build something unexpected. It doesn’t always have to be serious. Sometimes it's enough to make a beautiful, confusing farm-based cube cult.