Thoughts on development, design, and building products
Most small businesses drown in manual tasks that follow a predictable pattern: pull data, analyze it, decide, act. That pattern is exactly what AI automations are built for — but only when the conditions are right.
Seven years shipping Next.js in production across Goldman Sachs, BrightEdge, and Atlan. Here's what actually moves the needle when you're being evaluated — and what doesn't matter as much as you think.
Yes, you can ship to the App Store alone. The real bottlenecks aren't technical — they're App Review timing, code signing, and scope creep. Here's what actually happened building Muhasaba and Spree.
A first-person account of building a multi-agent restaurant analytics system — what the four core SDK concepts mean in practice, how handoffs work, and what was genuinely hard.
After debugging silent partial failures in Argo for months, I migrated Fivetran connector pipelines to Temporal. Here's what durable execution actually means, and when it's worth the setup cost.
Location matters less than reliability. After years working remotely with Goldman Sachs, BrightEdge, and Atlan from Srinagar, here's what actually matters for landing and keeping international clients.
The gap in Islamic apps wasn't Quran players or prayer trackers — it was the daily practice of muhasaba. Voice journaling with Whisper, AI guidance from Quran and Sunnah, and a content strategy for App Store discovery.
My wishlist was screenshots in a Notes app. I built Spree to fix that — any product URL from any store, swipe-to-rank for decisions, and AI virtual try-on for clothes. Native SwiftUI, live on the App Store.
Adding lipsync to ReelRocket — why avatar selection beats user photo uploads, how the ElevenLabs pipeline works, and what the ByteDance OmniHuman and Seedance models mean for the future of UGC tooling.
How I built a conversational AI system for restaurant owners using an agentic framework, with deep integration into Pet Pooja—one of India's most popular restaurant management platforms.
Exploring the future of user-generated content creation with AI-powered video automation, TikTok workflows, and intelligent content generation.
How I built a comprehensive project management platform specifically designed for architecture practices, with stage-based workflows, document control, and AI assistance.
Creating an AI platform that helps job seekers evaluate offer letters in minutes, with comprehensive analysis of compensation, benefits, and contract terms.
Exploring neo-brutalist design principles and how I applied them to create a distinctive portfolio that stands out from the crowd.