SiteShelf, a public shelf for the sites DevFactory builds

DevFactory kept finishing small sites and tools, and they sat in a folder on my Mac where nobody could see them. SiteShelf puts them on one public site, free to take. It went live on 6 November 2026, and since 9 November it has its own address, siteshelf.dev (opens in a new tab).

What a visitor can do

• Browse 111 sites and tools (34 websites and 77 browser tools for a business), filtered by business category, kind and style, or searched by name
• Open any one and use it live inside a desktop, tablet or phone frame, the way a customer would
• Download the full source as a zip, with no sign-up and no fee. Every zip is MIT licensed and opens with a START-HERE guide whose first section is for someone who has never installed Node

How a site gets on the shelf

One command, npm run onboard, scans the factory's storage folder and does the rest:

• It reads each project's name, headline, palette and dates from the project's own files and git history
• It asks Claude once per site for the parts that need judgement: the category, the style tags, the pages, the features and a one-sentence description
• It reshoots the screenshots with Playwright at fixed sizes, so every card on the shelf is the same shape
• It zips the source and rebuilds one catalog file, which is the only thing the pages read

A project that has not changed since the last run is skipped, so adding the newest few sites takes minutes.

Limits

• Everything the onboarding command generates stays out of git, so the host cannot build the site from the repository. A deploy is a build on my Mac and an upload
• Claude writes each listing once. A wrong category is fixed by hand, in a JSON file inside that project
• There are no download counts and no request form yet

Stack

• Astro, with two React islands: the gallery filter and the device frame
• Playwright for the screenshots
• claude -p for the one call per site
• Netlify for hosting