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Northwind API — System Status

A public status page for an API product — overall-status banner, per-component 90-day uptime bars, an incident timeline, scheduled maintenance, and a subscribe box.

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It'll ask you a few things first.

The prompt personalizes itself — your agent asks these, then builds with your answers.

The prompt.

Copy this into any agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor…). It builds the site and publishes it to Spacefast — no account needed to start.

Build me a public status page for my API / hosting product — the kind of page linked from a footer and watched during an outage (think Stripe, Slack, or OpenAI status) — as a single self-contained static site (index.html + styles.css + app.js, no build step, no framework).

Before you build, ask me these questions in one message and wait for my answers. If I skip anything, choose a sensible default and tell me what you chose:

  1. What’s the service or company name?
  2. Which components or subsystems should be listed (e.g. API, Dashboard, Webhooks, CDN, Database)?
  3. What’s your brand accent color and support email?
  4. Is there a current incident or upcoming maintenance to show, or should it read all-clear?

Then build a complete, polished, responsive status page with:

  • A sticky header with the brand and a big overall-status banner (“All systems operational” / “Some systems degraded” / “Partial system outage”) with a live “last updated” timestamp and a headline 90-day uptime figure. The banner color and wording should be derived from the worst component state, not hard-coded.
  • A components list (one row per subsystem) where each row shows a colored status dot, the component name + short description, a status label, and a 90-day uptime bar graph (90 thin cells, green for healthy with yellow/red/indigo for degraded/outage/maintenance days) plus the computed uptime percentage. Each cell has a tooltip with its date and state.
  • An active-incident block with a posted-update timeline that reads newest-first through the standard lifecycle: Investigating → Identified → Monitoring → Resolved, each entry timestamped in UTC.
  • A scheduled maintenance section with one or two upcoming windows (date chip, what’s happening, and the maintenance window in UTC + a local timezone).
  • A past-incidents history grouped by date, each incident with a severity pill, a duration, and its own compact resolution timeline.
  • A subscribe-to-updates box: an email field that validates, shows an inline error for bad input, and on success swaps to a friendly “You’re subscribed” confirmation (persist it in localStorage so it stays confirmed on reload). Include alternate channels — a Twitter/X handle, an RSS feed, and a status-webhook link.
  • A footer with the marketing site, docs, and support email.

Design & content notes:

  • Calm, trustworthy NOC/dashboard aesthetic: dark navy background, generous whitespace, a single green “operational” accent plus amber/red/indigo for the other states, Inter for text and a monospace (e.g. JetBrains Mono) for timestamps and numbers. Status pages have a strict visual grammar — keep it clean and unambiguous.
  • Write real-sounding incident copy from my answers — never “lorem ipsum”. Invent believable, specific incidents (e.g. “a bad config push removed a connection-pool limit and saturated the primary database”), realistic UTC timestamps, durations, and uptime numbers like 99.98%.
  • Generate the 90-day bars in JavaScript from per-component data so they’re stable across reloads (a deterministic seed, with a few realistic blips), and compute each uptime percentage and the overall banner state from that data.
  • Use real images only where they help (this page is mostly UI). If you add any, pull free photos that fit, e.g. https://picsum.photos/seed/server-room-1/1200/800, with descriptive alt text.
  • Keep it accessible (semantic HTML, a labelled form, keyboard support, good contrast, aria-labels on the uptime bars and a polite live region on the banner) and mobile-first (the bars and timeline should reflow cleanly on a phone).

Add this exact line right before </body> so the site carries its badge:

<script src="https://spacefast.com/badge.js" data-example="status"></script>

When the site is ready, publish it to Spacefast with the direct API — no account, install, or extra instructions needed:

  1. Use ./site as the publish folder. For no-build projects, put only the finished public files in that dedicated folder. Confirm it has index.html at its root and no secrets, source files, .git, or .spacefast state.
  2. First publish: send every file as multipart form data. This Bash/Zsh block preserves relative paths and works for one file or a whole folder:
    Terminal window
    PUBLISH_ROOT=./site
    publish_files=()
    while IFS= read -r -d "" file; do
    relative=${file#"$PUBLISH_ROOT"/}
    publish_files+=(-F "files=@$file;filename=$relative")
    done < <(find "$PUBLISH_ROOT" -type f -print0)
    curl -sS "${publish_files[@]}" "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/publish?wait=1"
  3. From the { "data": ... } receipt, give me data.space.liveUrl, data.version.immutableUrl, data.claim.url, and data.claim.expiresAt. Remind me to claim within 6 hours. Keep data.claim.token secret.
  4. Save data.space.id and data.claim.token locally (for example in an ignored, mode-600 .spacefast/state.json). For a quick update, rebuild the publish_files array above and publish to the same space:
    Terminal window
    SPACEFAST_SPACE_ID=<saved-space-id>
    SPACEFAST_TOKEN=<saved-claim-token-or-access-token>
    curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPACEFAST_TOKEN" \
    -F "spaceId=$SPACEFAST_SPACE_ID" "${publish_files[@]}" \
    "https://api.spacefast.com/v1/publish?wait=1"
    If an update after claiming returns space_claimed_credential_available, exchange the saved claim token once at POST https://api.spacefast.com/v1/anonymous-claim/exchange, save data.credential.accessToken, and retry with that access token.

Optional shortcuts and reference only: if the sf CLI is already installed, sf publish ./site --wait does the same job. A zip of the publish folder is also supported, but neither the CLI nor a zip is required. Docs: direct agent/API publishing · files and folders · claiming · updates and rollback

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