Building OPL’s website, then connecting the admin

I wanted a website that felt like OPL and that I could keep working on myself. I built the full site with Codex, shaping the pages, content and experience through the preview. It replaced our Wix site, with the source kept in GitHub and the finished website hosted on Cloudflare Pages.

The next step was to connect the website to Spud, our Hermes assistant. From Telegram I can ask it to add a gig listing, add a blog post or send a mailing-list email through MailerLite. The website has become part of the way we handle the work around OPL.

For our upcoming merch release, I’ve also set up Square and connected the order workflow through APIs to Telegram and Royal Mail. An incoming order can trigger the wireless printer connected to my Raspberry Pi. The connections are in place ahead of the release.

My part has been deciding how these pieces should work together, providing the content and checking what the tools produce. Packing the merchandise and dealing with anything unusual still need people.

This is all work around the music. I do not use AI to write, compose or produce OPL’s music.

What I take from it

Building a website was the starting point. Connecting it to the tools we already use has made it something I can look after as part of everyday band admin.