Case study ยท 2026
Dumb Dope
Dumb Dope has highlighted everyday creatives since 2016. We rebuilt it around them: interviews in their own words, a free directory, and open opportunities.
- Live site
- dumbdope.com
- Shipped
- 2026
- Delivered by
- Chris K. Howard, end to end
- Stack
- AstroSanityCloudflare WorkersGSAP
Problem
Dumb Dope is our own project, an interview series that began in 2016 with a simple idea: everyday creatives deserve a bigger audience. By 2026 the site had drifted. It was serving a stale build, its CMS had nothing published, and some of the best interviews survived only in web archives.
Solution
We recovered the archived interviews and rebuilt the site on Astro, Sanity, and Cloudflare Workers around the people instead of the format. Interviews, a free directory where creatives run their own listing, opportunities, and events now live in one place, with filters and site-wide search so people can find each other.
The site
Results
The site relaunched at dumbdope.com on October 7, 2026, with 8 interviews recovered from the archive. As of October 31, 2026 it carries 16 published interviews and keeps adding new ones.
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