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Articles on web development, entrepreneurship, and the lessons I've learned building products over the past decade.

From Side Project to $10K MRR: Lessons from Building a SaaS

A candid look at the journey of building and growing a successful SaaS product, including the mistakes made, pivots taken, and strategies that worked.

Shahzad Farooq

Dec 17, 2025

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Design 1 min read

Ai-muse

Technical Approach Architecture Data ingestion from ERP → Feature store → ML forecasting service → Replenishment engine → ERP Models Baseline: SARIMA Production: Gradient Boosting / LSTM (SKU-level) APIs REST (JSON) Batch + near-real-time sync Complexity Forecasting: O(n × t) where n = SKUs, t = time windows Trade-offs Accuracy vs. interpretability Model complexity vs. operational stability

Jan 05, 2026

Productivity 8 min read

My Developer Productivity Stack: Tools and Workflows for 2025

A deep dive into the tools, VSCode extensions, CLI utilities, and workflows that help me ship faster and maintain focus throughout the day.

Dec 20, 2025

Entrepreneurship 15 min read

From Side Project to $10K MRR: Lessons from Building a SaaS

A candid look at the journey of building and growing a successful SaaS product, including the mistakes made, pivots taken, and strategies that worked.

Dec 17, 2025

Development 12 min read

Building Scalable APIs with Laravel: Best Practices for 2025

Learn how to design and build production-ready REST APIs using Laravel 11, covering authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and performance optimization.

Dec 10, 2025