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Thoughts on AI, software engineering, and building in public.

How I Got 150+ Stars on GitHub for a Next.js Portfolio Template

The story behind minimal-next-portfolio — an open-source Next.js 16 portfolio template that grew from a personal project to 148 stars, 41 forks, and developers worldwide using it to showcase their work.

February 1, 20266 min read

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Ship Your Backend in 10 Minutes: The Niya FastAPI Template

A production-ready FastAPI template with Supabase auth, rate limiting, connection pooling, and clean architecture — built so you never waste another week on backend boilerplate.

March 1, 20256 min read

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I Built a Free SaaS Starter Template — Here's Everything Inside

Niya SaaS Template is a production-ready, open-source Next.js 15 starter kit with Supabase auth, Zustand, React Query, Magic UI animations, and clean architecture. Built for developers and AI startups who want to ship fast.

February 20, 20258 min read

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Building a Production-Ready AI Chatbot Platform: Lessons from Convot

Deep-dive into the architecture decisions, ingestion pipelines, and hard-won lessons from building Convot — an embeddable AI chatbot that retrieves answers from your own knowledge base.

February 15, 2025

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AEO vs SEO: How I Ranked #1 on ChatGPT for a Next.js Template

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the new frontier. Here's the exact strategy I used to get my open-source Next.js portfolio template to rank #1 on ChatGPT search — and what it means for developers building in public.

November 20, 2024

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3D Card with Embedded Links Using Three.js and Blender

Ever thought your traditional business card could use a serious upgrade? Here's how I used Three.js and Blender to transform a plain business card into an interactive 3D masterpiece with embedded clickable links.

November 1, 20237 min read