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iHateReading is a software development learning platform that breaks programming topics into step-by-step threads, roadmaps, templates, and curated developer resources.

What can I learn on iHateReading?

You can learn software development through step-by-step threads, frontend/backend/mobile roadmaps, the monthly developer magazine, GitHub trending projects, Cursor rules, job portals, and ready-made website templates.

Is iHateReading free to read?

Yes. Threads, roadmaps, explore posts, the developer magazine, job portals, and most learning resources on iHateReading are free to read. Templates in the store are paid products.

What is iHateReading Magazine?

iHateReading Magazine is a monthly paper-style developer digest at /magazine. It curates the latest blogs, Universo tools, SaaS directories, RSS reads, and GitHub trending into sections such as Frontend, Backend, Mobile, Databases, Testing, Tools, and Misc.

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122 articles on iHateReading. Canonical URL pattern: /blogs/{slug}. Also available as RSS and articles.json.

Oct 6, 2026
How to Convert Long Blog Lists Into Instagram Carousels With Nano Banana, AI HTML, and OpenRouter
Build an admin table of your blogs, then turn each post into Instagram carousels using Google Nano Banana images via OpenRouter, AI HTML slides, or an AI React code generator.
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Oct 6, 2026
The List Is the Easy Part: 393 SaaS Directories and the Agent That Has to Use Them
Why a SaaS directory list is not the product — playbooks, browser agents, free vs paid directories, backlinks, and the open-source launch kit we are building.
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Oct 5, 2026
How to Understand LLM Output Faster: Four Formats, from Controlled Text to Explainer Videos
Andrej Karpathy's four output formats for understanding LLM work—ASD-STE100, diagrams, interactive HTML, and explainer videos—with prompts, Manim and Remotion paths, and Showtime for local agent-rendered video.
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Oct 4, 2026
Tubelog: Turn Any YouTube Channel Into a Markdown Library and AI Blogs (Free, Open Source)
Tubelog is a free, open-source local tool that archives a YouTube channel as Markdown files and can write an AI blog from each transcript.
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Oct 3, 2026
WebMCP, Explained Through a Sweet Shop: Your Website's Second Customer Can't See the Screen
What WebMCP is, how the imperative and declarative APIs work, what changed in Chrome's origin trial, and how a small site can become AI-agent ready.
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Oct 3, 2026
Forward Deployed Engineer: The New Opportunity and How to Become One
What a forward deployed engineer does, why demand is spiking, the stack to learn, and a 90-day path using the iHateReading AI Agent Developer Roadmap.
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Oct 2, 2026
50 React Interview Questions (Frontend Cheat Sheet for 2026)
Fifty frontend interview questions with one-line answers — HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, TypeScript, performance, and web fundamentals. Built for developers prepping in 2026.
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Oct 2, 2026
How to Build an AI Agent System That Researches 100 Blogs a Day (RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube)
A concrete walkthrough of the iHateReading research layer: RSS, Google News, Reddit, YouTube transcripts, URL hashing, LLM classification, and turning the pipeline into a content-ideas dashboard SaaS.
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Sep 30, 2026
OpenAI DevDay 2026: What Actually Matters for Builders (Dots, Sign In, Agents)
DevDay 2026 recap for developers — Dots agent distribution, Sign in with ChatGPT, Decisions API, plugin strategy, and the trigger-decision-action loop. Builder take with iHateReading links to agents, sandbox, and SaaS.
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Sep 30, 2026
Agent Harnessing: The Part of Building AI Agents Nobody Talks About
What is an agent harness? Same model, 30% to 95% on ARC-AGI — the loop, tools, memory, sandbox, and tracing in your code, not the weights. Harness vs framework explained.
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Sep 30, 2026
Why our websites are slow — Importance of bundle size
JavaScript bundles dominate parse and compile time in the browser. A bottom-to-top performance checklist starts with bundle size, not image tweaks alone.
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Sep 29, 2026
Onboarding Old Industries: What Five Business Visits Taught Me About Selling AI to People Who've Never Heard of a CRM
Field notes from five old-economy businesses in India — invoice OCR, lead scraping, news desks, Instagram workflows, and retail gaps — and why “automation” sells when “CRM” doesn’t.
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Sep 28, 2026
From Finding Clients to a Smart SaaS: Building an AI Scraping Agent Dashboard
How I went from building websites with no distribution to a cheap, custom B2B lead-gen stack—scrapers, AI query agents, data enrichment, and a SaaS dashboard you can sell to clients.
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Sep 27, 2026
AI Agents for Recruiting: How Voice-First Sourcing Is Replacing Boolean Search
AI recruiting agent in 2026: how voice-first sourcing replaces Boolean search, what runs under the hood, LL144 compliance, and how to evaluate Juicebox, hireEZ, SeekOut, and similar tools.
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Sep 27, 2026
AI Agent Auditing & Compliance in 2026: The New SOC 2 for Autonomous Systems
AI agent compliance auditing in 2026: why operational misalignment is the new SOC 2 problem, and what the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and ISO 42001 actually require.
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Sep 26, 2026
How We're Keeping ihatereading.in Under $100/Month at 10k Visitors
How to reduce website hosting costs in 2026: the Vercel Fluid Compute, Cloudflare Workers, and Firebase changes that keep ihatereading.in under $100 a month at 10,000 visitors.
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Sep 25, 2026
Python AI SDKs in 2026: OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic-AI vs smolagents vs Strands
A code-first python ai agent sdk comparison: build the same three-tool agent in OpenAI Agents SDK, Pydantic-AI, smolagents, and Strands — execution models, testing, and which framework fits.
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Sep 24, 2026
AI Voice Agents for SMB Receptionists: Vapi vs Retell vs ElevenLabs Compared
A 2026 comparison of Vapi, Retell, and ElevenLabs as an AI voice agent for business: real latency, disclosure laws, pricing, and which AI receptionist software fits appointment booking.
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Sep 23, 2026
How We Write 100+ SEO Blogs a Day for Under $10 (Without Getting Hit by Google's Scaled Content Penalty)
How a CRM-table AI content pipeline publishes 100+ researched SEO blogs a day for under $10 without tripping Google's scaled content penalty.
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Sep 22, 2026
Jev, One Week In: What TypeSafe AI's System One Model Actually Is, Every Real Use Case We Could Find, and the Open-Source Rival Already Chasing It
What is the Jev AI model? A launch-week review of TypeSafe AI's System One model, pricing, API, real use cases, limitations, and open-source rival Laya.
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Sep 20, 2026
Jev, Explained Like You're Five (Then Like You're Actually Building With It)
What is the Jev AI model? A practical guide to TypeSafe AI's System One model, its API, pricing, decision primitives, use cases, and limitations.
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Sep 18, 2026
B2B Agencies AI Agent for Reddit, X, LinkedIn and Google Maps (And What It Actually Costs)
How we build, deploy, monitor, and control the cost of lead-generation AI agents for B2B agencies and solo founders.
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Sep 15, 2026
AI Operating System for SaaS Founders: The Skills, the Stack, and the Dashboard Behind It
The full AI operating system for SaaS founders — structured playbooks, the engineering stack underneath, and the dashboard that runs recurring work on a schedule.
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Sep 13, 2026
AI Agents in 2026: Why Every Founder's Stack Just Changed for Good
From Chatbots to Running Businesses
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Sep 12, 2026
Company's Building AI Agent Sandbox SDKs & APIs
AI agent sandbox SDKs
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Sep 11, 2026
15 Micro-SaaS Ideas Actually Making Money in 2026
And How to Validate Yours Before You Build
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Sep 10, 2026
How to Get Free Traffic to Your Website in 2026: The Complete Free-to-Paid Growth Playbook
ree SaaS directories to submit for free 2026, Reddit marketing for startups without ads, Hacker News Show HN launch guide, Dev.to article distribution for developers, content scheduling tools for X LinkedIn Instagram, free-to-paid website traffic strategy, indie hacker distribution channels
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Sep 9, 2026
I Gave Claude 10+ SaaS Growth Skills and Let It Run My Own Platform
Run entire online content website using 10 Claude Skills
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Sep 7, 2026
GPT-6 Astra Just Shipped. The Real Opportunity Isn't the Model — It's Everything Around It
GPT-6 Astra computer use, AI agent sandboxing, agent permission gates and rollback, AI agent observability tools, best AI coding agents 2026
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Sep 3, 2026
AEO in 2026: The Complete Answer Engine Optimization Guide for Technical Founders
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
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Aug 29, 2026
AI-Automated Reddit Trend Scraper that saved us $1000/month on Content Creation
Using Honojs, OpenRouter and Scrapefast, how we built one on our own
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Aug 25, 2026
AI Content Management System
A swarm of AI agents writing blogs, managing SEO, tracking competitors and more
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Aug 23, 2026
One company paid $14000 to a simple bidding app
The story of overnight success via vibe coding by Jonathan Wilke
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Aug 19, 2026
Firecrawl Alternatives: ScrapeFast vs Firecrawl vs ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI
Free, open-source Hono.js alternative you can self-host today
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Aug 18, 2026
Best and FREE Nextjs Boilerplates
Save the thread for future
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Aug 16, 2026
Cool React Sounds libraries to use on your next project
Buildsaas updates, React sound libraries, Explore page on iHateReading and more
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Jul 29, 2026
CRM, CMS, Admin for Businesses
Build CRM in days, not months
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Jul 28, 2026
Cursor, Codex, Claude Code prompts collection
200+ Copy-paste prompts for Cursor to build better products!!
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Jul 17, 2026
Cool shadcn libraries
You can't miss
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Jul 14, 2026
RepCN Repository builder open-source tool
Convert React code into deployed project with shareable URL
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Jul 10, 2026
Build a directory listing website that earns online
A starter kit to quickly make your own directory listing website using Nextjs, Supabase and Stripe
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Jun 26, 2026
Making of Aantraa
AI audio/video translation, caption generator and youtube video to shorts creator
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May 9, 2026
10+ Early stage investors for Indian Founders
Save the thread
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Apr 24, 2026
20 Websites for Design Engineers
For inspirations and cool landing pages
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Apr 13, 2026
One honojs file for entire web scraping API
Building scrape endpoints using one honojs file
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Mar 31, 2026
Why I Keep Building CRM Templates
Even Though They’re “Boring”
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Mar 24, 2026
Turning GitHub Trends, Scrapers, and LLMs Into New SaaS Ideas
LLM-Powered Scrapers: Exploring Lightpanda, AI Research Agents, and New SaaS Ideas
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Mar 22, 2026
FoundersKit Github Repository
Only repo to launch your next idea and grab first funding to release your IPO
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Mar 21, 2026
One person AI organisation employee team
Few more trending github repositories
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Mar 11, 2026
Whole fight for AI sandbox
Why AI agent need sandbox to execute code and its not cheap
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Mar 11, 2026
I Built a SaaS Starter Kit So You Don't Have to Waste 4 Weeks on Setup
Every SaaS founder wastes the first month on auth, payments, and emails. BuildSAAS skips all of that.
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Mar 10, 2026
Prompt to Video App
Building AI video generation app
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Mar 9, 2026
100+ FREE React website templates
Introduction to gettemplate.website
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Jan 13, 2026
Everyone will be a builder and creator in future
From Ideas to Products: Building a System for the Builder–Creator Era
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Jan 12, 2026
Top SAAS Directories
Platforms to submit your next idea
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Jan 8, 2026
Making AI applications without any AI Slop
Building AI applications? then you might need to read this?
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Jan 6, 2026
New AI agents SDKs and few changes in programming
What's happening in programming @6Jan 2025
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Dec 30, 2025
AI Agents for Every Website
Something to ponder and something to learn
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Dec 4, 2025
Buidling Documentation Website
Realworld edge cases
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Dec 2, 2025
How to get your next SAAS Idea and Make money Online
Short introduction but step by step process
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Nov 19, 2025
Lessons from selling code templates, AI have a long way to take a frontend developer job
Business ideas you can snatch away
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Nov 12, 2025
Animated Gradient Generator app
How and Why I build one
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Nov 6, 2025
How we build website templates
Our next Nextjs website template
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Oct 28, 2025
October 27 letter
$9 Million as Annual Recurring Revenue
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Oct 25, 2025
15 Landing Pages Code and Design
Build your next idea with instant landing page to validate it before launching MVP
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Oct 15, 2025
October 15 2025
Build websites fast without using AI
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Oct 12, 2025
October 12 letter
One Page E-commerce website
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Oct 11, 2025
October 11 letter
Few things trending in full-stack frontend domains
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Oct 10, 2025
1000+ India cities unplash images, latitude longitude, airbnb listings and more
October 10 letter, Biggest dataset for Indian Tourism
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Oct 9, 2025
Building Icon Selector Modal
October 9 2025 letter
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Oct 8, 2025
Simplest and quickest blog website
Build static content website using Nextjs React
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Oct 6, 2025
Whats happening in programming
More information for @today i.e. 6th October 2025
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Sep 30, 2025
Developers' library for React, Next templates
Gettemplate.website updates
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Sep 27, 2025
One-Click Website Source Code for Developers
Introduction to gettemplate.website
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Sep 27, 2025
Web scraping
Discussing npm modules
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Aug 27, 2025
Anima vs Figma Make
A Practical Comparison b/w Anima AI Playground and Figma Make
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Aug 15, 2025
POST API for pushing content on Devto
Content post automation script or API
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Aug 13, 2025
Crawling and Searching
Finding answers on Internet is still most important API to build
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Aug 7, 2025
150 lines of AI Web Search Agent
Google/genai + Firecrawl API
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Aug 4, 2025
Medium API automation
Working with medium API
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Aug 2, 2025
Smallest AI Agent
Building one using Hono, Google Gen AI
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Aug 1, 2025
Vector Search using Vector Embeddings
Along with using Fusejs to add search on the website
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Jul 29, 2025
iHateReading: Breaking down software development
How and Why
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Jul 29, 2025
Generating summary for 300+ articles
Running Ollama locally, how LLM works under the hood
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Jul 26, 2025
BHVR
Bun Hono Vite React: New framework for full-stack devs
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Jul 25, 2025
Getting Started with Honojs
Getting started with Hono.js
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Jul 24, 2025
Mathematics behind animations on the website
animation = combination of states OR a collection of data points
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Jul 18, 2025
Event Loop
What it is and How to make the one
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Jul 17, 2025
React AI Code Generator
Building one using Gettemplate, Next, React and Vercel AI SDK
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Jul 16, 2025
Few things to know
Few links to share
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Jul 10, 2025
API for LLM applications
from generating code to social content
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Jul 8, 2025
Nextjs repository generator using AI LLM
Automation along with new idea
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Jul 7, 2025
CAG is the new thing in AI
Firefox new Web AI API and more
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Jul 5, 2025
Aggregator platform ideas
Ideabrowser where ideas are discussed in details
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Jul 4, 2025
AI React Tailwind Code Generator App
Building one is quite easy in 2025
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Jul 3, 2025
300+ websites to stay updated in Software
Another aggregator platform for devs
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Jul 2, 2025
Advance Features Editor
Tiptap Editor in React
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Jul 1, 2025
Simple image compression
We have reducing our image storage for iHateReading by 20%
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Jun 30, 2025
CSS scroll and view animation in just 6 lines of code
CSS is evolving
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Jun 23, 2025
Gettemplate Website
Found nothing on internet
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Jun 6, 2025
Firebase, Supabase and Clerk Authentication
How to add authentication using emaill, password using Firebase, Supabase and Clerk
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Jun 5, 2025
AI Travel Itinerary Application
Building one using Next.js, Vercel AI SDK and Other APIs
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Jun 2, 2025
Lemon Squeezy Payment with Next.js
Integrating Lemon Squeezy with Next.js
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May 12, 2025
How to build AI Chat App — Next, Vercel AI SDK, Firebase
Building the AI chat app using Next, Vercel AI SDK and Firebase
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Apr 29, 2025
Anima AI Playground: Designing and Building full-stack SAAS Application
Building a full-stack SAAS app, Anima AI code editor
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Apr 25, 2025
From Code to Creation: How I Built Developer Templates
This blog is selling a template, do not click it, if no need 😁
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Mar 13, 2025
Fastest way to convert Figma design to React code
Introducing Anima Playground with Figma Plugin
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Mar 6, 2025
How to build websites
Start from scratch and build for millions
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Feb 22, 2025
AI Chat App template — Next.js, Vercel AI SDK, Firebase
Build your AI chat App in just a few clicks
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Feb 12, 2025
Running deepseek locally , Ollama and langchain
AI agents are not just future but it's here
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Jan 26, 2025
Scraping 500+ links from 100 emails
Web scraping real-world example without using AI
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Jan 21, 2025
2024 Popular Javascript products
Here is the list of 2024 best javascript tools to look for
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Jan 16, 2025
Paypal payment integration in Next.js
2 steps to add payments but still a task
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Jan 14, 2025
AI Agent
is really the next BIG thing?
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Jan 10, 2025
jQuery is not DEAD
Building websites for 100 years down the line
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Jan 7, 2025
New look of website
21st.dev another new UI library
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Jan 6, 2025
Found nothing on internet
still you might want to read
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Jan 5, 2025
10+ Payment Gateways
Extensive list for developers for adding payment gateways
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Jan 4, 2025
BenchJS
Run javascript benchmarks in your browser
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Jan 2, 2025
50+ React code components
Directly copy-paste in existing repository, No CLI, No Installation
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Nov 22, 2024
Expo new version SDK 52
All you need to know about the changes
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Nov 18, 2024
OriginUI
Beautiful UI components built with Tailwind CSS and Next.js
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