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Studio
Content Strategy for Early-Stage Startups
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What I learned building it.
Shorter and more frequent than the notes section. How I price and scope work, which database I reach for and when that has cost me, what changed after people used something I designed, and the parts of an AI feature that are not the model call.
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12 min
Studio
How much does a production-ready website cost in 2026?
A production-ready website in 2026 costs between ₹40,000 for a marketing site and ₹4,00,000 for a custom web application, with maintenance starting at ₹25,000 monthly. AI lowered writing code costs, but architecture and security remain premium.
11 min
Studio
How to get clients as a software developer in 2026
Fiverr lost 21.9 percent of its buyers in a year while spend per buyer rose 15.6 percent. Upwork is the same shape. Here is what that changes about finding clients.
11 min
Teaching
How to start a company in India with almost no money
Udyam registration is free and needs only an Aadhaar number. DPIIT recognition is free. Here is what does have a bill attached, and the order to pay it in.
9 min
Studio
How to get a job or a freelance project on the NovaEdge app
The NovaEdge Digital Labs app has a job board, a freelance marketplace and a proposal system in it. This is the order to use them in, from a signup to a paid deliverable.
8 min
Engineering
An esports platform is mostly a clock
Finalist runs a scrim night with nobody watching it: registration opens, slots fill, lineups get filtered, the room reveals. Almost every hard problem in the build turned out to be a scheduling problem.
12 min
Teaching
Why big companies usually start with an engineer, and how to build one in 2026
Stanford checked 2,791 people behind 1,110 billion-dollar companies. Computer science is the most common degree and 21 percent had worked as engineers. What that means in 2026.
12 min
AI
How to use Claude Code for free, and what you trade for it
Claude Code is not on Anthropic's free plan. Four routes get you a coding agent in your terminal at zero cost, including pointing Claude Code at a third-party relay. Here is the command for each one and the bill it sends instead.
12 min
AI
How to train an AI model for your business on a low-end PC
Fine-tuning an 8B model in 4-bit takes 6 GB of VRAM, and ten hours of a rented 4090 is $3.40. The hardware was never the hard part. Writing fifty examples is, and most businesses need retrieval instead.
10 min
Studio
The best way to rank on a keyword is to pick a different keyword
96.55 percent of pages get no Google traffic and 1.74 percent of new pages reach the top ten within a year. Here is what the numbers say to do instead, using my own site's index report as the worked example.
12 min
AI
Will AI replace developers? Look at who is getting hired
Developer job postings are up almost 15 percent since Claude Code shipped, and 71 percent of that growth is senior roles. The squeeze is at the entry point.
11 min
Teaching
Which programming language should you learn in 2026
JavaScript if you want to build things people open, Python if you want data or models. What the 2025 and 2026 rankings count, and the order I would learn in.
12 min
AI
10 best open source AI models in 2026, and what each is for
Ten open weight models grouped by the job each one does, with the licence and the memory it needs written next to it. From two AI products in production.
8 min
Studio
5 ways to earn money as a full-stack developer in 2026
From fixed-scope MVP contracting and monthly retainers to micro-SaaS and technical writing: realistic income paths, backed by developer survey data and live studio experience.
7 min
Teaching
Becoming a full-stack developer after high school
I did a BCA at a college nobody has heard of and no client has ever asked about it. Here is the order I would learn full-stack in, starting from school.
5 min
Studio
The quote is the hard part of the job
I price projects fixed, before I write any code. Here is what that forces me to work out first, and what it costs me when I get it wrong.
4 min
Engineering
MongoDB by default, Postgres when I have to
I reach for MongoDB first on most projects. This is the honest version of why, including the cases where that choice has cost me.
3 min
Studio
A demo you can click beats a status report
Every project I run ships a working demo once a week. It is the only progress signal I have found that neither side can fool themselves with.
4 min
Design
Designing for one thumb
Notes from building BookWorm in React Native. Most of what makes a mobile interface feel wrong is a desktop habit that survived the port.
4 min
Teaching
Learning to read an error message
For students who freeze when the terminal turns red. Reading an error is most of the job, and almost nobody is taught how.
5 min
AI
The model call is the cheap part of an AI feature
Two AI products in production taught me the same lesson twice. The prompt is a day of work. Everything around it is the project.
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