Blog & Case Studies
In-depth technical case studies and insights from building scalable SaaS platforms for US startups
Case Studies
Building Stoke: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted AI Dev Platform on Vast.ai
How I built and open-sourced Stoke — GPU provisioning, model deployment, and editor integration on Vast.ai, with a model-benchmarking framework and ADR-driven architecture. Includes an honest account of what the eval framework does and does not do yet.
Building Demoick: A Deterministic Auto-Zoom Engine and Headless GPU Compositor in Rust
How I built Demoick, a macOS desktop app that turns raw screen recordings into cinematic demos — an interaction-driven camera engine (not spring physics), a hand-rolled wgpu/Metal compositor, and fully local AI for transcription and voice-over.
Building a Compliance-First HR & Payroll Platform: Rule-Based Automation, LLM-Grounded Q&A, and a Provider-Neutral Billing Core
How I built HRM, a statutory payroll platform for Indian SMEs (EPF/ESI/PT) as founder and sole engineer — a deterministic natural-language action layer, a genuinely LLM-backed compliance assistant, and a multi-gateway billing core, in Laravel 12.
Building an AI-Powered Outreach Automation Platform with Node.js and BullMQ
Technical deep dive into building a scalable, event-driven AI outreach platform using Node.js, Express, TypeScript, BullMQ, Redis, and PostgreSQL for a US fintech client.
Building SimplyTC: Real Estate Transaction Platform with Next.js and Stripe
How I built a pay-per-transaction real estate platform reducing compliance work by 80% using Next.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
Building Trustloop: Growth Marketing SaaS with Laravel and Universal Widget System
Leading the technical development of a multi-platform widget system supporting React, Vue, and WordPress for customer review collection.
DIYCostSeg: Building a $100K ARR Real Estate SaaS with Laravel
How I built an automated cost segregation report generation platform for US real estate investors using Laravel and MySQL.