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FeaturedFounder · 21 September 2026 · 8 min read
From Free Runs to a ₹10,000 Event: How I Monetised a Run Club
Every Verve run was free and cost the club about ₹2,000. Here is how I helped plan and monetise it, and built the engine that made the first paid run bring in about ₹10,000.
FeaturedEngineering · 21 September 2026 · 16 min read
Build a Run Club Website with Next.js and Supabase in 2 Nights
How we used Next.js and Supabase to build a run club website with ticketing, Razorpay payments, QR check-in and a live leaderboard in 2 nights. Real fixes.
Engineering · 26 September 2026 · 12 min read
Dynamic Ticket Pricing Without Overselling: Seat Holds in Postgres
How Verve raises ticket prices as seats fill without overselling: seat holds, row locks, a 200-person race test on real Postgres, and the edge cases that surprised me.
Engineering · 26 September 2026 · 9 min read
Type-Ahead Search in TypeScript, Built with My DAA Course
How a DAA lab helped me build type-ahead search for hundreds of runners at a finish line: scoring, sorting, a live demo and a sort race in TypeScript.
FeaturedEngineering · 13 September 2026 · 10 min read
From a Screenshot of a Table to a Live Ops Portal: Building Examlytics's Team Operating System
Every instruction arrived as a WhatsApp screenshot, a meeting-minutes PDF, or a voice note correcting the last one. Here's how that turned into a real Next.js and Supabase portal that runs Examlytics's daily accountability, and what changed twice before the numbers were right.
FeaturedEngineering · 6 September 2026 · 8 min read
One Login. One Device. No Exceptions.
How Examlytics went from 'technically anyone could share a login' to kicking a second device offline in under a second, why that isn't a nice-to-have for an exam platform, and the two-part build (a database trigger, then a Realtime broadcast) that got it there.
Engineering · 6 September 2026 · 7 min read
Get Your Domain on "Sign in with Google," Not Your Supabase Project ID
Every student clicking 'Continue with Google' on Examlytics saw a Google popup pointing to kdmazjuawkchtjtcwbqk.supabase.co instead of examlytics.in. Here's why that happens, the paid fix versus the free one, and the actual OAuth logic behind swapping one for the other.
Engineering · 5 September 2026 · 9 min read
“Done” Was Never the Right Word
We shipped LaTeX rendering for an exam-prep platform's question bank. Every fix surfaced a smaller one underneath it, right down to a single missing backslash silently corrupting math. Here's the whole chain, and the stack behind it.
Engineering · 4 September 2026 · 5 min read
You Don't Need Vercel Pro. You Need a Fork (or a Merge Button).
Vercel's Hobby plan blocks a second person from deploying to your project, and there's no setting that fixes it. Here are four working jugaads that get someone else's code live without paying for Pro.
Founder · 2 September 2026 · 8 min read
You Don't Need a SaaS Stack. You Need Twenty Minutes and a Spreadsheet.
How I built a free issue tracker and CRM on Google Sheets and Apps Script in an afternoon, plus the failure modes nobody warns you about.
FeaturedGrowth & Marketing · 1 September 2026 · 7 min read
How I Actually Scaled NexElite.Media
Building the site was the easy part. Turning it into a machine that pulls in requests from six continents and actually converts is a different job entirely, here's what that job looked like.