devendra variyai build software for other people at night and my own the rest of the time. this is the whole thing in order, including the parts that went nowhere.https://devendravariya.com/a launch is a spike, not a channelhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/a-launch-is-a-spike/https://devendravariya.com/blog/a-launch-is-a-spike/one product hunt launch, one daily winner on another platform, and the honest thing to say about what both of them produced.i learned cables before i learned cloudshttps://devendravariya.com/blog/cables-before-clouds/https://devendravariya.com/blog/cables-before-clouds/two years on a hardware and networking course, then six years of devops. the order turned out to matter more than the course did.i published eight npm packages nobody asked forhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/eight-npm-packages/https://devendravariya.com/blog/eight-npm-packages/envguard started because a deploy failed at 2am over one missing environment variable. it grew into a cli, a github action and a vs code extension.six years freelance, then a formhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/freelancer-to-llp/https://devendravariya.com/blog/freelancer-to-llp/what actually changes when you stop being a freelancer with clients and become a company with the same clients.the most valuable thing i do is delete thingshttps://devendravariya.com/blog/i-delete-things-for-a-living/https://devendravariya.com/blog/i-delete-things-for-a-living/cutting an aws bill is not clever architecture. it is finding what nobody turned off, and knowing what the floor of your bill actually is.i launched on product hunt, then found everything wrong with ithttps://devendravariya.com/blog/i-launched-then-audited-myself/https://devendravariya.com/blog/i-launched-then-audited-myself/mypage.cc went live. two weeks later i audited my own product and wrote down every hole.i wake up at 4pmhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/i-wake-up-at-4pm/https://devendravariya.com/blog/i-wake-up-at-4pm/five years of working a us clock from india. what it pays for, and what it quietly costs.my clients pay for my productshttps://devendravariya.com/blog/my-clients-pay-for-my-products/https://devendravariya.com/blog/my-clients-pay-for-my-products/no runway, no savings to burn, no quitting to build full time. what an agency actually does to the kind of product you can make.my own robots.txt was the problemhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/my-own-robots-txt/https://devendravariya.com/blog/my-own-robots-txt/impressions dropped on a site i had just launched. i went looking for an algorithm and found a file i wrote myself.105 projects and one number i will not riskhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/one-hundred-and-five-projects/https://devendravariya.com/blog/one-hundred-and-five-projects/a 100% job success score changes what work you say yes to. mostly for the better, sometimes not.i built an app that fines me for my own screen timehttps://devendravariya.com/blog/the-app-that-fines-you/https://devendravariya.com/blog/the-app-that-fines-you/screenfine takes your money when you go over your limit, and makes you do pushups in front of a camera to get it back.the boring legal half of shipping a producthttps://devendravariya.com/blog/the-boring-legal-half/https://devendravariya.com/blog/the-boring-legal-half/vat, consent banners, refund windows, a privacy policy that is not a template. none of it is fun and all of it is load bearing.two bugs that made a working rag system look stupidhttps://devendravariya.com/blog/two-bugs-in-a-rag-system/https://devendravariya.com/blog/two-bugs-in-a-rag-system/nothing crashed. the answers just got worse. one bug was in my parser, the other was in a firewall rule i did not write.