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****I spent weeks optimizing: performance Lighthouse scores bundle size lazy loading SEO structure …while completely ignoring the thing users actually saw first: The link preview. Not the website itself. The preview card inside: Telegram Discord LinkedIn X Slack Facebook Reddit And after building more browser-based developer tools, I realized something important: A broken or low-quality Open Graph
The landscape of mobile development is shifting beneath our feet. For years, "Smart Apps" were simply thin clients for powerful cloud APIs. If you wanted to understand the sentiment of a sentence or find similar documents, you packaged a JSON request, sent it to a server, and waited for a response. But the era of the "Cloud-First" mandate is being challenged by a new priority: Privacy-Centric, Low
If you've spent any time doing Android development from the command line, you know the rhythm: adb devices, adb logcat, adb shell, repeat. It works, but it's friction — switching between windows, retyping device serials, manually grep-ing through logcat noise. padb is a Python-based terminal UI that wraps all of that into one interactive session. No GUI required, no Android Studio open in the back
Building a News Aggregator Without an Engagement Algorithm I have been building a project called WeSearch: https://wesearch.press It is a free news aggregator that pulls from hundreds of sources, keeps discovery mostly chronological, adds source/bias context where available, preserves permanent daily archives, and allows anonymous discussion on stories. The project started from a simple frustrat
A deep, opinionated, practical guide for the human running a software business alone. Hard-won lessons, decision frameworks, and the actual mechanics of going from idea → first dollar → first $10K MRR → first $1M ARR — without a co-founder, without a team for as long as possible, and without burning out. If you read only one section first, read §2 Mindset, §4 Validation, and §6 Distribution-First.
Originally published on rohitraj.tech UPI fraud hit ₹805 cr in India last year. Cloud APIs leak data. So I built ScamRakshak — fully on-device scam detection. 3-tier inference engine: Gemma 4 LLM — context-aware classification LiteRT — fast pattern model Regex fallback — when battery low Full architecture write-up: https://rohitraj.tech/en/notes/build-on-device-ai-scam-detector-android-gemma Read
After getting frustrated with news apps designed to keep me scrolling forever, I built Trace - an Android app that aggregates news from 100+ sources and uses AI to create 30-second summaries. The app is free, no ads, no subscription. Just news that respects your time. The Problem Every morning I'd open Google News or Twitter and 30 minutes would vanish. Not because I was learning anything useful,