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Level UI • 22 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
An MCP server is not a new API. It is a thin layer over the one you already have
Somewhere in the last year, "do we need an MCP server?" joined the list of questions that arrive in a brief before anyone has said what the thing is for. It is usually framed as MCP vs API, as though the Model Context Protocol were a newer kind of AP...
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  • ai
  • api
  • webdev
  • security
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rahuldk1105 • 1 day • in Articles • 6 min read
Shipping Android and iOS solo (iOS: coming soon)
I built the Track My Academy mobile apps myself. Both of them. Android and iOS. The Android app is live in production. The iOS app is coming soon. That second line is the honest one. It's also the one every solo founder ends up writing at some poin...
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  • dev-tools
  • founder
  • product
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rahuldk1105 • 2 days • in Articles • 5 min read
I built a pager for my own developers
An earlier post ended with a promise. Sort of. In the night I broke productionhttps://www.rahuldk.in/blog/the-night-i-broke-production, an expired SSL certificate on our backend domain failed silently. It took us about four hours to find it. I staye...
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  • dev-tools
  • product
  • founder
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rahuldk1105 • 2 days • in Articles • 6 min read
How to win a hackathon, according to a tired judge
Cover photo: Evan Marvellhttps://unsplash.com/@evanmarvell on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/two-men-at-a-table-with-a-laptop-uzBZnacIKgQ On 8 and 9 October, I sat on the other side of the table. I was on the jury of a hackathon at VISTAS. It ...
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  • student-life
  • startups
  • product
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rahuldk1105 • 3 days • in Articles • 8 min read
R.I.P. smart ball v1: what smart football sensors taught me
We are gathered here today to remember smart ball v1. It was a football. It had smart football sensors inside. It never shipped. Rest in peace, little guy. This is the eulogy, and also a beginner's guide to why hardware is hard. If you have ever wa...
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  • sports-tech
  • football
  • product
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rahuldk1105 • 4 days • in Articles • 8 min read
Outsourcing vs building it yourself: our app arrived from 2006
Every founder has a moment where they say, "Fine. I'll do it myself." Mine came with a very specific smell. The smell of PHP and a design from another decade. This post is about outsourcing app development vs building it yourself. I've done the firs...
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  • founder
  • product
  • dev-tools
  • startups
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rahuldk1105 • 4 days • in Articles • 8 min read
A coach complained, so I built sports academy management software
Cover photo: Adrià Crehuet Canohttps://unsplash.com/@acrehuet98 on Unsplashhttps://unsplash.com/photos/children-playing-soccer-LIhB1mAGhY Most startup stories begin with a vision. Mine began with a complaint. Not even my complaint. Two other people...
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  • founder
  • sports-tech
  • startups
  • product
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Tom Smithverified • 19 hours • in Articles • 9 min read
Developer Weekly Briefing — October 30, 2026
Security dominated this week, but not in the usual way. Two active campaigns turned GitHub configuration files into attack surfaces. Researchers demonstrated that the built-in browsers inside AI coding tools can read your SSH keys. And at Oracle AI ...
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  • agenticai
  • devsecops
  • github
  • localai
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rahuldk1105 • 4 days • in Articles • 7 min read
Production outage lessons: we blamed our code. It was SSL.
Building a product is one job. Keeping it alive is a completely different job. Nobody warns you about the second one. Or they do, and you don't listen. I didn't listen. This post is my production outage lessons, learnt the expensive way. One backen...
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  • founder
  • product
  • dev-tools
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