Real work, told in the tone it was done in.

Phoenix · punah

yaqutali.com: a journalist's WordPress site, rebuilt static and handed back owned.

The site kept its design and its words. What left: the PHP runtime, the plugin surface, the admin login that botnets scan every minute. What arrived: a directory of HTML, CSS and images that any host can serve, and a monthly site-care rung so it stays that way.

Before

WordPress, shared hosting, plugin-dependent

After

Static, 13 KB homepage document, no server-side code

Ownership

Customer holds the domain, the repo and the bundle

Care

Site Care, ₹1,111 a month, in or out any time

Ailyak · our own stack

Sarai: a hotel's OTA feed, wired into one lead ledger, run on a property we own.

Ailyak runs two mountain stays in Jibhi. Booking.com and Hostelworld have no usable booking APIs, so every reservation arrived as an email and every enquiry as a WhatsApp message, reconciled by hand against a spreadsheet. Nothing was rebuilt: the property management system stayed. What was wired: the OTA emails are parsed into a phone-keyed session ledger, direct WhatsApp enquiries land in the same ledger, and an operator console pushes confirmed stays into inventory, takes the deposit, and warns when a lead is going cold. Ailyak is our own company. This is the stack we run, not a testimonial.

What was ageing

OTA emails, a shared spreadsheet, bookings keyed by memory

Wired, not rebuilt

Email parsing, OTA-room to PMS-room mapping, signed webhooks into the existing PMS

Operator console

Installable PWA, push alerts for leads going cold, assistant drafts the WhatsApp reply on a key we hold

Receipts

Refinement waves 1 to 4 shipped 15 Aug 2026; inbound funnel live; console in daily use at both properties

Console and repository sit behind an access gate for the property team, so there is no public URL to open. The founder's own daily use is the proof; a walkthrough is available on request.

Dhara · audit engine

An external-surface read, delivered as a report you can hand to a board.

Dhara reads what the internet can already see about a company: reachable services, software versions, exposed admin paths, the one CVE that is version-confirmed and actually exploitable. The sample report is a real render of the real template, on a sanitised target, so you can judge the artifact before you judge the engine.

Artifact

Report v2, paper-first broadsheet, Launch Design

Claims

Only version-confirmed CVEs are named; guesses stay unnamed

Your control

Opt-out column on the masthead, nothing scanned twice without consent

Lane

DPDP-readiness for Indian SMBs; wedge audits for the mid-market

Architect · a matter of one's own

Semicolon: a student's first production site, built with a mentor and a tool, running on a real box.

Anshuman started Semicolon on an old laptop, learning while building. A matter on Architect remembers the journey and carries one line from the mentor into every session: be supportive, let them wander. Eleven pages, CI that ships a public image, and Ada, the site's own assistant, answering through a live model on a key Anshuman controls.

1. 01

   Starting it on the old laptop. At the beginning I did not really know how everything worked. I was learning while building, breaking things, fixing them, slowly understanding how the pieces connected. It started as an idea, and I wanted it to be a real coding website people could actually use.

2. 02

   The bugs and the deployment problems. Things worked locally and failed online. I spent a lot of time on Docker, the server, CI and the API. Some errors were frustrating, but fixing each one taught me something. Even keeping the laptop running late at night became part of it.

3. 03

   Seeing Semicolon running publicly. The code was no longer just sitting on my laptop. CI was building the image, it was deploying to a real server, and Ada was responding through a live model. That made the whole project feel real.

Built by

Anshuman. The tools helped; the learning, the decisions and the testing were his.

Shipped via

GitHub Actions → public image → zero-credential pull on a fleet box, every 2 minutes

Mentor's role

Hosting, trust boundaries, one annotation that travels forward

Assistant

Ada, live on an OpenRouter key the builder owns, with a monthly cap he set

Told in the builder's words, shaped with his yes, reviewed by him before it went up.

Phoenix · brochure, re-homed

A Gonda, Uttar Pradesh food brand's 2019 brochure site, rebuilt over four WhatsApp messages.

No portal, no brief document, no call scheduled. The owner sent a logo and seven product packs on WhatsApp; a static preview came back staged on their own domain. One new thing was added: an order button that opens WhatsApp, replacing a 2019 online-order page that never ran. The story is written as the four beats it took.

Intake

WhatsApp thread, logo plus seven pack photos

Preview

Staged on the customer's domain, noindex, behind a holding page

New

Order on WhatsApp, a working wa.me deep-link

Care

Site Care rung from day one

Named and linked after go-live, with the owner's yes.