Writing
Case studies and articles on the things I've built, plus notes on development, design, and ideas.
Building the Gram Samriddhi Portal: Where It All Started
A case study on GSP — a three-tier government KPI monitoring portal for Tripura. The project that turned a free Figma file into my freelance career, and what it taught me about security, caching, and building for government at startup speed.
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- 6 min read
Building Hospiq: How a Pricing Dispute Made Me Open-Source a Hotel System
A case study on Hospiq — a unified, self-hostable hotel and restaurant management suite. How a guest's offhand question became a product, why a disagreement over data backups turned into the best deal I ever made, and what finally pushed me to open-source it.
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- 6 min read
Building Purbasha: From a Manual Emporium to a Storefront Ministers Signed Off On
A case study on Purbasha — a cross-platform e-commerce store and app for a Tripura government handicrafts brand. How a demo UI turned into a pitch to two state departments, why the login is phone-first, and what it means to build ahead of a government tender.
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- 6 min read
Building Samvad: A Service Booking App from Scratch
A case study on building Samvad end to end — a Flutter and Appwrite service booking app where professionals list their availability and customers book, chat, and pay. The story behind the stack choices, the realtime chat, and the night Razorpay taught me about reconciliation.
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- 7 min read
Building for 6,000 Schools: The SCERT Textbook Distribution Platform
A case study on the SCERT book distribution platform — a government supply-chain system streamlining textbook distribution across roughly 6,000 schools in Tripura. My first real partnership, the requisition-to-dispatch workflow, and building something serious enough to sit under a government security audit.
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- 5 min read
Building Shagnest: When the Code Is the Easy Part
A case study on Shagnest — a full Next.js and Appwrite e-commerce platform I built for a home-essentials brand. The build went well. The launch taught me that a project's success depends on things no developer controls.
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- 4 min read
Building Zorvid: A Self-Hosted Video Pipeline
A case study on Zorvid — a decoupled, horizontally scalable video-on-demand pipeline I built from scratch. Upload a video, watch it transcode to adaptive HLS in the background, and stream it with per-segment token security. The story of building infrastructure ahead of the deal that needed it.
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- 6 min read
How to get Clients as a freelancer
The real way I started getting better freelance leads was not cold emails. It was showing up, talking to people, and following up properly.
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- 7 min read
How to Host a successful hackathon
A practical guide from planning, college outreach, registrations, sponsors, internet, food, judging, and all the small things that decide if a hackathon feels alive.
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- 8 min read
From Localhost to Production with Coolify
A practical walkthrough of moving apps from local development to a VPS with Coolify, including setup, domains, SSL, databases, backups, and the little mistakes to avoid.
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- 8 min read
Common Vibe coding mistakes one should avoid
Vibe coding is fun and fast, but it can create painful bugs if you skip types, edge cases, structure, and your own judgement.
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- 7 min read