I spend the last day vibe coding
Now that I'm back from vacation I've been trying to get the GLD website up and running. Now I'm quite certain that I won't be able to get the full version running for a long time to come but the first step I have pretty much completed.
The first step is getting the token buy and sell up and running. Honestly I've had a working alpha version of half of it ready for a while now but it looked really ugly.
This is how the new version looks.
Now it may not seem overly impressive but it took 14 tries to get the values in the right spot so they look like they should. That part of the website allows people to exchange their GLD tokens to HIVE or HBD (and exchange HBD/HIVE to GLD). I got that all ready to go and then I had to do something similar for the GLS tokens.
I think I was up around 19 tries to get everything lined up on that image. It was horrible and to make things worse when vibe coding there is no guarantees that one more try isn't going to get rid of something that already works. Yes There are more advanced ways to vibe code that are less hit and miss than mine but in the end...I'm just a duffer so I take what I can get.
Now after getting that far I wanted the "Fairy Market" to trade GLS to work on the bottom corner. That was a nightmare but after a couple hours I got a competent exchange running (I really hate JWT) then I tried to work it onto this page and again it was a formatting nightmare.
Then I thought a bit. Rather than have a bunch of boxes in specific locations (each with click for more info) I decided I would make one box and put everything in it and have the image around it. Which is what you see here.
Three tries and it was complete. It took WAY less time than trying to work out 5 boxes on the screen. Unfortunately after adding a link to the trader page everything was out of sync on the main page and I was looking at hit and miss formatting for another 19 tries. Ugh.
So... I changed the format of the GLS Fairy Hive to this... and it was done so much faster.
I learned a valuable lesson.
Sometimes brute force isn't the way to go.
Sure it may work in the end. However, sometimes looking at the problem from a different angle teacher you a new way of doing things that can just speed everything up.
Are things perfect?
Absolutely not and I'll be bug hunting for a very long time.
However, if anyone wants to try out the alpha version you can take a look at:
GLD Homepage
https://hivegld.netlify.app/ which has that web address at the moment.
The fountain appears to work. The GLD and GLS trading appear to work. The Fairy Hive and Vault both work and show the overall backing of the token. Next chore? Get bots ready which will do daily payouts to active delegators and token holders.
Slow and steady I'll get things done :)