Sérgio Ferrás

October 21, 2025 · 💻 Tech

Work for weeks, or think for some minutes?

Written by Sérgio Ferrás

Work for weeks, or think for some minutes?

I just slashed a project timeline by 85% with the same results.

All my website is built in custom code with NextJS.

We are now starting a blog to grow our organic reach.

For maximum SEO results, the blog needs to be under the same domain

And so my first thought was coding the blog myself

  • Template Pages
  • In-house editor
  • Marketing roles
  • SEO Optimization
  • Etc.

Even with Cursor AI, this would easily take me 3 weeks to get it up and running!

Usually, in times like these my response would be “let’s just start quickly to get there faster!”

But this time, I paused.

I matured the idea for almost a week.

That’s right – an entire WEEK!

Eventually, I found a solution by integrating a WordPress Blog with a redirect

All it took from me was

  • 10 lines of code in NextJS to do the redirect
  • 2 days to setup the WordPress base styles

Exact same result. 2 weeks of work saved

2 more weeks that I can focus on actual Growth!

Old me would’ve coded it. New me took a week to think.

And that week paid off.

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