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Ankita Kulkarni

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I Thought My App Was Fast Until I Found This

Hey Reader, A couple years ago, I realized something unexpected: I was growing faster in my career not by doing more tutorials or chasing the next shiny framework but by finding a mentor. Want to level up your Next.js skills? → Find a mentor who has shipped production-ready apps. Want to get better at public speaking? → Find someone who’s done it before. At one point, I had multiple mentors, each helping me with something specific. Their guidance made all the difference and helped me focus.It...

AI SDK Wrapper

Hey Reader, A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off the AI Agent Series 🧠⚙️ and the response has been wild 🤯. So many of you said, “I had no idea it was this fast to build AI Agents”. I walkthrough simple AI Agent Frameworks like this to make it useful for you. AI Agent Framework No fluff, no abstractions. Just real tools, real use cases, and clean architecture that you can build on. And Today, we’re diving into an AI tool that every developer should be using and is probably missing from your...

The Subtle UX Trick That Makes Apps Feel Premium

Hey Reader, I’ve kicked off a brand-new series on YouTube: The AI Agent Series where you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and scale powerful AI Agents from scratch. To get started, check out the series here ↗. I listed down tasks I'd hire for and instead, built an AI Assistant Agent with Convex, WorkOS Authkit and Next.js. This week, I'm dropping a video showing 📹 How I shipped a AI Agent SaaS in just 13 minutes and we'll buid your own Assistant step-by-step. Now onto today’s sponsor 👇...

Create Your First AI Agent

Hey Reader, Ever Wish You Had a Senior Engineer Reviewing Your Code 24/7? 🧠Now you do and it’s powered by AI. This is Part 1 of my new AI Agent Series where we’re building and deploying real AI agents that can think, analyze, and act like a senior software engineer 🤓. This project is called AI Code Reviewer and it’s not just a fancy chatbot. It remembers past messages, gives contextual feedback and helps you ship better code, faster. Here's the Tech Stack: → ⚡ Next.js 15 + React 19 → 🧠 Convex...

after function in Next.js

Hey Reader, Next.js has a bunch of little features that feel fun at first — but can actually change the way you build. This week’s snack is one of those. That’s the whole point of Frontend Snacks: giving you small, sharp insights that make a real difference and ones you can actually apply. Weekly Snack: after function 🍿 Next.js 15 introduces after() — a new API that lets you schedule server-side code to run after the response has been sent to the browser. So your UI renders instantly, and the...

AI coding agent

Hey Reader, So apparently Deadpool is giving a keynote at a developer conference now. Yes, Ryan Reynolds is speaking at the Postman Conference and I’m still trying to process that 🤯 I recently had a conversation with a friend who really missed in-person connections. It's hard to be at home all the time and it is only when you meet like minded people in a room is when your creative juice flows. Things like I didn't know how tall you were or didn't know you had a dog etc. come up which is...

server only vs use server

Hey Reader, 🎨 Ever wanted your website to feel like it came straight out of a Studio Ghibli movie? I just discovered a Ghibli-inspired ShadCN UI theme that brings that dreamy, hand-painted magic to your components — and it’s absolutely stunning. If you're as obsessed with that aesthetic as I am, you're gonna love this. I also share a Github Repo you can check out too that goes along well with the video. 🍿 Weekly Snack: 'server-only' vs 'use server' Next.js has two easily confused directives:...

AI coding assistant for large codebases

Hey Reader, Having an AI Code Editor is mandatory in today's world. Last weekend, I was talking to a friend who's a Staff DevOps Lead at a Tech firm. He hadn't tried any of the AI Code Editors yet and said he was hesitant—mostly because he thought editors wouldn't know the Context of his codebase as he does and also they can't keep up with his brain 🧠, he joked. So, very confidently, I showed him Cursor AI. And to my surprise, Cursor really sucked at remembering context. Plus, it took Cursor...

shipped my first SaaS

Hey Reader, A couple years ago, I made a bold move. I left my corporate 9-to-5 to become a Tech Educator. Starting from scratch was challenging, I had limited social proof and only had testimonials from my past colleagues. Existing social proof tools were charging $75/month ($900/year!) and were overly complex plus they stopped improving the product. That’s when I decided to build my own solution and Ship my First SaaS called as ProofyBubble. 🩵 ProofyBubble shows real-time visitor and...

Hey Reader, I have some exciting news 🥳. I have been working hard on launching the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course ↗️. It's a course that teaches you to build and deploy modern full stack Next.js Production-ready apps. It is coming along well and I am taking the extra time to perfect it. It’s set to launch in April, and I can’t wait for y’all to check it out! I plan to share extra bonuses 🎁 and nuggets for folks on the waitlist so click this magic link to join the waitlist ↗️. Weekly Snack:...