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Bonsai Encyclopedia + Crawler
A content product, and the pipeline that feeds it.
- Role
- Builder: app, data model, crawler
A bonsai species encyclopedia: care profiles, technique guides, and galleries organized by development stage, season, and style.
Paired with its own supply chain: a rule-based Python crawler that collects and categorizes the content the app serves. The product and its content ops, built as one system.
What it proves
- Owning the full content lifecycle: acquisition pipeline → typed model → shipped UX
- Respectful automation: rate limits, robots.txt, relevance scoring
- Product breadth outside fintech
Technical depth
Stack
React 19 · TypeScript · Python pipeline · 100+ species model
- Typed data model covering 100+ species; programmatic SEO routes
- Python crawler: rate-limited, robots.txt-aware, quality-filtered