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Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Freelancing as a CS Student: What I've Learned Delivering 3 Client Projects

Three real client projects while still in school taught me things no coursework or tutorial covers about the actual job.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

From Client Brief to Production: My Freelance Web Dev Workflow

The repeatable process that turns a vague client brief into a shipped, maintainable site — not the parts, the order they happen in.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Designing a Reusable Component Library on Radix UI

Radix gives you unstyled, accessible primitives. The actual work is everything you build on top to make them feel like a coherent system.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Incremental Static Regeneration Explained: Fast Sites That Still Update Instantly

ISR sounds like a compromise between static and dynamic. In practice it's closer to having both, most of the time, for free.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

How I Built a Drag-and-Drop CMS Without a Third-Party Platform

Skipping Webflow/Builder.io for a client who needed real ownership of their content — the tradeoffs of building a CMS from scratch.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Redis Caching and Rate Limiting: A Practical Guide for Small Apps

You probably don't need a caching strategy document. You need these three Redis patterns, correctly applied.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Building a Self-Hosted WhatsApp Integration for Lead Follow-Up

How to wire WhatsApp into a lead-capture flow without handing your client's customer data to a third-party chatbot platform.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Why I Chose Next.js App Router for a Client Marketing Site

For a marketing site with a CMS, SEO requirements and a tight budget, App Router won out over the alternatives — here's the actual reasoning.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Full-Stack Development & Freelancing · 2 min

Passwordless Auth in Production: What I Learned Implementing WebAuthn

WebAuthn's spec is intimidating, but the production gotchas aren't in the crypto — they're in the details nobody's blog post mentions.

Kripansh Srivastava · Sep 25, 2026

Field notes.

Freelancing as a CS Student: What I've Learned Delivering 3 Client Projects

From Client Brief to Production: My Freelance Web Dev Workflow

Designing a Reusable Component Library on Radix UI

Incremental Static Regeneration Explained: Fast Sites That Still Update Instantly

How I Built a Drag-and-Drop CMS Without a Third-Party Platform

Redis Caching and Rate Limiting: A Practical Guide for Small Apps

Building a Self-Hosted WhatsApp Integration for Lead Follow-Up

Why I Chose Next.js App Router for a Client Marketing Site

Passwordless Auth in Production: What I Learned Implementing WebAuthn

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Let's build it.

Field notes.

Freelancing as a CS Student: What I've Learned Delivering 3 Client Projects

From Client Brief to Production: My Freelance Web Dev Workflow

Designing a Reusable Component Library on Radix UI

Incremental Static Regeneration Explained: Fast Sites That Still Update Instantly

How I Built a Drag-and-Drop CMS Without a Third-Party Platform

Redis Caching and Rate Limiting: A Practical Guide for Small Apps

Building a Self-Hosted WhatsApp Integration for Lead Follow-Up

Why I Chose Next.js App Router for a Client Marketing Site

Passwordless Auth in Production: What I Learned Implementing WebAuthn

Have an idea?Let's build it.

Have an idea?
Let's build it.