#building-in-public

The Man Who’d Been to Every Country on Earth Wrote Back

He had visited all 193 of them. He was on the New York Times bestseller list. I was a nobody in Vietnam with a globe and no users. I do not…

Why I Built Layers

Building a Privacy-focused App For Families and Close Friends

Why We Built Lookify - AI Wardrobe Stylist

I Spent Years Building Other People’s Dreams. Then I Finally Found One Worth Chasing.

For the last few years, I’ve had the privilege of helping founders turn ideas into real products.

The App Came Back Working. It Still Almost Killed the Project.

Below proof-of-concept, painful to use, and no budget left to fix it. This is the wall most projects quietly die against.

Building a Social Media: Backend Router Programming

Welcome back to the journey! I left off in the last article by talking about the backend services that I was planning to use and the…

We Got Tired of Hearing “But It Looked Different Yesterday”

Every team that works with websites has heard this. A client calls. Something changed on their page. They swear the disclaimer was there…

Building an AI That Knows When You Should Leave

Most navigation apps answer a simple question:

The Village and the City

Everyone is building a city as fast as they can. You can build something quieter, and live in it.

How I Debugged 9 Microservice Deployment Failures in ArgoCD and Jenkins and What I Learned About…

New codebase. Nine failures. Multiple microservices stuck in CrashLoopBackOff. Here is how separating concerns turned an overwhelming…

How I Became an AI Engineer

Navya Sajjan

30 Days, 4 Rewrites: Designing the App I Wanted

I didn’t rewrite AquaTrack four times in a month because I couldn’t make up my mind. I rewrote it because the first three versions were…

Did You Know — You Must Let Your AI Grows Up

The model gets better. The architecture grows up. Those are different verbs, and the difference is the whole story.

You Don’t Have an AI Problem. You Have an Operating System Problem.

Everyone’s collecting tools. Almost nobody builds the thing that makes them compound.

Dead Letter Queues Explained: What They Are, Why You Need Them, and How I Implemented One in…

I had read about dead letter queues during exam prep and thought I understood them. Then I helped implement one in a real SMS platform and…

Why I am Pivoting Into Product Management

I didn’t stumble into Product Management. I chose it after realizing I had been doing parts of it all along just without the title.

I Had a Second AI Grade My Work — and It Caught Two Bugs I’d Written

There’s a particular kind of confidence you feel right after you finish building something, and it should make you suspicious.

Terraform State Explained: The Most Important File Most Engineers Do Not Understand

You have been running terraform apply for months. But do you actually know what Terraform is doing behind the scenes — and what happens…

My Second App, and the Simple Thing I Kept Wanting

Building DashLog, a small private route journal for drives, trips, and everywhere in between.

Your AI Product Is on the Wrong Domain. Here Is Why We Moved Ours to .ai.

We moved Apatero’s app and API to apatero.ai with zero downtime, kept the .com as the front door, and turned the move into a bet on…

How I Migrated 98 Posts to Sanity CMS in One Script Without Breaking the Live Site

The honest technical walkthrough nobody writes.

I Built a Production Platform With No CS Degree Using Claude Code.

Not the highlight reel. The real version.

The Missed-Anything Sweep: My Final Gate Before Calling AI-Assisted Code Done

I rewrote my engineering motto for coding with AI this week.

Platform Engineering: What It Is, Why It Is Not Just DevOps with a New Name, and How to Build an…

Gartner named it a top strategic technology trend. 80% of large engineering organisations will have a dedicated platform team by 2026. Here…

I Built a Platform in Six Days With No Degree, No Co-Founder, and a Home Server.

Let me tell you about the moment I almost lost everything I had built.

AI Proposes, the Simulator Verifies

What building SentinelTwin taught me about using deterministic simulation as the foundation for AI-assisted physical security planning.

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I Did the Same 3 Boring Things for 5 Months. Here’s What Happened.

Every result I can point to came from doing the same unremarkable thing, repeatedly, long after it stopped feeling like progress.

Building 6 Apps as a Solo Developer: Meet Endots

An indie studio of one — and an honest log of what it takes to ship software alone

Day 22 Part 1: Audience Segmentation — Who Actually Engages With Your Content?

Saturday starting new system. Audience segmentation: cluster followers into meaningful groups using ML (K-Means, DBSCAN, Hierarchical…

I Posted a Pin on April 26th. Nothing Happened for 24 Days. Then This.

The Pinterest compounding mechanic is real. Here is what it actually looks like in the data.

I ran Claude Code offline at 35,000 feet. I picked the wrong model first

TD;TL:

My Local RAG article went viral. The product it promoted sold 1 copy in 6 months.

Six months ago, I published a Dev.to article called “How I built a 100% offline Second Brain for engineering docs using Docker + Llama 3…

Golf Taught Me This About Business

Swinging harder doesn’t make the ball go further. Turns out the same is true for building a side hustle.

I Thought Pinterest Was Like Instagram. Two Months and 717 Pins Later, Here’s What I Actually Know.

A honest account of what building two Pinterest accounts from scratch actually teaches you about attention, systems, and how the internet…

SaaS Boilerplate with .NET

If you are building SaaS products with .NET and React, you probably keep running into the same problem.

Day 17 Complete: Voice Intelligence System + Building in Public with Buffer API

Finished voice profiling system. Complete Buffer API integration working: auto profile generation, real-time analysis, multi-brand…

Day 17 Part 4: Voice Intelligence Near Complete + 18 Weeks Building in Public with Buffer

Finishing voice recommendations, API polish, real Buffer integration tests. Plus: Hit 18 weeks of consistent posting through Buffer — not…

I Just Finished the AI Foundation Phase of My Learning — Here Is What 5 Courses Actually Taught Me

On building ten projects in four days, and why I stopped before starting the next thing.

I Built a Learning System in Notion Before I Lost My Momentum — Here Is What It Looks Like

And why May 4 was the day it had to happen.

Day 15 Complete: Timing Intelligence — Prophet Forecasting Production-Ready

Built a complete time-series analysis system. Prophet models trained, engagement windows validated, recommendations generating, API live…

Two Weeks of AI Running My Life. One Feature Just Got Fired.

I gave my AI personal assistant another week. The inbox finally surrendered. The day-planner did not survive contact with reality.

What Starting Without Clarity Actually Looks Like (After Day 1)

This keeps the story moving forward.

I Was Trying to Buy a Truck. I Accidentally Discovered the Future of Note-Taking.

It’s Sunday. My wife and I need to replace our car.

Write Once, Publish Everywhere

How I Built a Content Model That Keeps History Open

The Ghost of Consistency

I Have Content. I Just Don’t Have the Energy to Post It.

Day 7: Our First Real Customer Feedback. It Wasn’t What We Wanted to Hear.

“Entertaining. Not useful.” That’s what our most engaged follower said. Here’s what we’re doing about it.

Title: Day 6: The Bot Is Running. Now We Find Out If Anyone Is Listening.

$0 revenue. First automated outreach system live. 5 targets identified. Reddit enters the picture.

Adding Substack: Why Personal Connection Matters

Building Minnesota Then on direct relationships, not algorithms

Day 5: The First Person Who Said “I Don’t Get It” — And Why That Was the Best Thing That Happened…

$0 revenue. 693 impressions. One rejected prompt. One brutal comment. One positioning breakthrough.