The website had essentially stopped working. The company that originally built it had gone out of business, and the owners didn't know how to update anything.

So I helped them revive the site. Looking back, I'm not even sure it should be called "development." I mostly figured out how to transfer the domain, update the content, and piece together a simple website from whatever photos we could gather.

But that small project became the start of everything for me.

I wrote a short story about it here: https://poly-phony.net/n/word/hot-spring/

I'm curious how others here got their first real website client or project.