Pick a starter · Quickstart

The two starters

Starter · learn a history · easiesthistory-of-tampaOne long scrolling story of 200 years of downtown Tampa, with a map, charts and archival photos. Use it to learn any history: a city or neighborhood, a material like indigo, an industry, a company or a movement. Plain files, no build step. Starter · build a minisite · harderstartup-india-guideA multi-page minisite with a sidebar and search, built from data files. Use it to organize any subject that needs several pages: a directory, a handbook, a resource guide or a program catalog.

	history-of-tampa	startup-india-guide
Build step?	No	Yes: `node build.mjs`, run by the agent
Pages folder	`/ (root)`	`/docs`
Good for	Learning any history: a place, an industry, a company, a movement	Organizing any subject into pages: a directory, handbook, resource guide or program catalog
Extra setup	None (its optional data check uses Node)	Node, on the VS Code path only
Repo	On GitHub (opens in a new tab)	On GitHub (opens in a new tab)

First time? Pick history-of-tampa. This guide's running example turns it into a history of St. Petersburg, Florida, but the same steps work for any history subject. Building a directory or guide instead? Pick startup-india-guide.

What people made from them

From history-of-tampaIndigo: The Blue That Dyed the WorldThe same engine, pointed at a topic instead of a place: the history of a dye, on a world map. From startup-india-guide · showcase onlyFlorida Startup Ecosystem MapA source-linked map of Florida's startup ecosystem. Its repo is private, so you can look but not fork it.

history-of-indigo was built from a single message. Make your own version shows that prompt and how to use it for your own subject.

Want a sidebar guide like the one you're reading? This guide is built the same way as startup-india-guide and published from main, /docs. Its repo is fritzhand/quickstart (opens in a new tab).

Look before you choose

Have the agent walk you through a starter before you copy it. On the app path, add the starter to a session as a reference repo (Many repos, one to work in).

Say this

Look at fritzhand/history-of-tampa and tell me, in plain English, which files I'd change to make a history of my subject, and what I should delete first.

For the other starter, swap in fritzhand/startup-india-guide and "a guide to" instead of "a history of".

Licensing in plain words

You may reuse both starters. Each comes with a few conditions.

history-of-tampa (and history-of-indigo)

Code: CC0. Free to reuse for anything, no credit required.
Compiled data in js/data.js: CC BY 4.0. Reuse it only with credit. You'll replace it with your own research anyway.
Images the site shows: each carries its own license, listed in CONTENT_LICENSE.md. Keep the credit line for any image you keep.

startup-india-guide

Code: MIT. Free to reuse and change, but keep the LICENSE file with its copyright notice.
Author photo (site/jeremy.png): a photo of the original author. Delete it.