Build-in-public stories, technical deep dives, and lessons from shipping developer tools.
I rejected the SaaS aesthetic and built a design system around hand-drawn doodles, noise grain, and sketchy cards. Here's the full system — with a free doodle pack you can steal.
I built my mom a restaurant app. Then I genericized it into 9 sellable products in 5 sessions. The framework for turning any side project into a product line.
3 serverless functions. No Express, no Next.js, no backend framework. Just Stripe Checkout, Vercel, and Supabase for downloads. Total cost: $0/month.
start hereMy mom makes dumplings. She managed everything with notebooks and WhatsApp. I built her a full business app with AI chat invoicing. Here's the whole story.
28 pg_cron jobs on Supabase free tier. Data syncs, alerts, health checks, email reminders — organized into 5 categories with logging and monitoring.
AI content generation, DM sequences to 400+ members, broadcast messaging, and community analytics. Built with React, Slack API, Gemini, and Supabase.
Two call platforms, 26M+ words, 10,041 embeddings. How I built a call intelligence warehouse with semantic search, speaker resolution, and automated insight extraction.
7 data sources, 21 templates, 10,000+ slides. AI-powered presentations, business reviews, case studies, and one-pagers that know your customers by name.
6 agents, 4,640 tickets analyzed, 9 stages from triage to publish. How I built a content pipeline that turns feature tickets into published documentation.
100+ production assets with Nano Banana. The green screen trick for transparent PNGs, HTML-to-PNG for perfect text, and the prompts that actually work.
I ran 7 tests trying to animate UI screenshots with Google Veo 3.1. All failed. Then I found a pipeline that actually works: green screen, chromakey, Remotion, and extension chaining.
How I turned Open Brain — a personal MCP memory server — into a deploy-ready Gumroad product called Brain Kit. The full story: from side project to shipped product in one night.