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AI

What AI Automations Can Actually Do for a Small Business (And What They Can't)

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.

Jun 27, 20269 min read
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AIAutomationsAgentic AI
Development

What Hiring Managers Actually Look for in a Next.js Developer

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.

Jun 27, 202610 min read
Next.jsCareerWeb Development
iOS

How I Shipped Two iOS Apps to the App Store as a Solo Developer

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.

Jun 27, 202610 min read
iOSSwiftSwiftUI
AI

OpenAI Agents SDK: A Builder's Honest Guide

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.

Jun 26, 202612 min read
AIOpenAIAgents SDK
Development

Why I Use Temporal for Long-Running AI Workflows

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.

Jun 26, 202610 min read
TemporalAIWorkflows
Freelance

I'm a Full-Stack Developer from Kashmir. Here's What I've Learned About International Client Work.

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.

Jun 26, 20269 min read
FreelanceRemote WorkKashmir
iOS

How I Built Muhasaba — An AI-Powered Islamic Journal App

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.

Jun 26, 202610 min read
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iOSSwiftSwiftUI
iOS

How I Built Spree — An AI Wishlist App with Virtual Try-On

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.

Jun 26, 202610 min read
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iOSSwiftSwiftUI
AI

Adding AI Lipsync and a Generative Marketing Studio to a UGC Platform

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.

Jun 26, 202611 min read
AIUGCLipsync
AI

Building an AI Agent System for Restaurant Owners: Why I Chose an Agentic Framework Over Traditional Solutions

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.

Jan 25, 202512 min read
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AIOpenAIAgents
Development

Building a UGC Content Creation Platform: Rethinking TikTok Automation

Exploring the future of user-generated content creation with AI-powered video automation, TikTok workflows, and intelligent content generation.

Jan 20, 20258 min read
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UGCTikTokAutomation
Development

Building Architex: A Project Management Platform for Architects

How I built a comprehensive project management platform specifically designed for architecture practices, with stage-based workflows, document control, and AI assistance.

Jan 15, 202510 min read
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Next.jsTypeScriptAI
AI

AI-Powered Offer Letter Analysis: Building Offer X-Ray

Creating an AI platform that helps job seekers evaluate offer letters in minutes, with comprehensive analysis of compensation, benefits, and contract terms.

Jan 10, 20256 min read
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AIOpenAINext.js
Design

Neo-Brutalist Design: Bold, Bold, Bold

Exploring neo-brutalist design principles and how I applied them to create a distinctive portfolio that stands out from the crowd.

Jan 05, 20255 min read
DesignUI/UXTailwind CSS