# The Blind Walleye: a static rebuild of the marketing site

> Rebuilds the public Blind Walleye site as a Next.js app. The shipped capture source/pages/index.html is one input page, and node scripts/compare-visual.mjs pixel-diffs the replica against the capture and exits 1 if any page exceeds the diff threshold.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Website
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-03
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/jpiercedev/blind-walleye>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jpiercedev/blind-walleye/blob/4852d2c9a818359996fd8ee2119d39480508938f/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/blind-walleye-static-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/blind-walleye-static-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/blind-walleye-static-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Scope:** The README calls the project a 1:1 copy of https://www.theblindwalleye.com, statically rendered in Next.js. source/ holds the capture. The app prerenders /, /menu, and /events, and the captured 404 is rendered as well. source/pages contains index.html, menu.html, events.html, and __404.html.
- **Testing evidence:** The README says node scripts/compare-visual.mjs screenshots the captured source and the replica at 1440, 991, and 390 pixels wide. The script's default MAX_DIFF_PCT is 0.5, and it exits 1 when any page's diff percent is above that threshold.
- **License:** The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jpiercedev/blind-walleye/blob/4852d2c9a818359996fd8ee2119d39480508938f/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/jpiercedev/blind-walleye/blob/4852d2c9a818359996fd8ee2119d39480508938f/source/pages/index.html>
3. <https://github.com/jpiercedev/blind-walleye/blob/4852d2c9a818359996fd8ee2119d39480508938f/scripts/compare-visual.mjs>

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