AI gets you started.
I get you
to production.
I’m Abhinav, a full-stack developer with 8+ years of shipping real products. I use AI to move fast, and decades of engineering habits to make sure your app doesn’t break the week after launch.
If any of this is you, I can help.
Most of my work starts with a founder who tried another way first.
Built with AI, now breaking?
Shipped fast with AI. Crashes when real users arrive. Nobody can tell you why.
Freelancer vanished?
Half-built codebase. Ghosted Slack. A repo you can’t read and a login that doesn’t work.
Slowing down at scale?
Worked at 10 users. At 1,000, it’s 12-second loads and a support inbox on fire.
Quoted $80k and 6 months?
Discovery phase, sprint 0, three meetings before code. You just want to launch.
What I actually do for founders.
Prices below are starting points. Real scope comes from a call.
Full-stack web apps
from $6kEnd-to-end builds. Frontend, backend, database, payments, auth, deploy. One person, no handoffs.
MVP in 2–4 weeks
from $4kYour idea, live, with paying users. Just enough features to validate. Built clean enough to scale later.
Fix my app
from $1.5kYou have something broken or inherited something messy. I’ll audit, stabilize, and get you back on track.
Performance & scaling
from $2kSlow pages, crashing servers, database meltdowns. I find the bottleneck and fix it for good.
Deployment & infra
from $1.5kCloud setup, CI/CD, monitoring. So ‘push to deploy’ actually works, and you know when something’s wrong.
Free app review
freeSend me your codebase or live app. I’ll give you an honest 15-minute read on what’s wrong and what to fix first.
Claim your free reviewTwo ways most founders build. Then there’s mine.
You shouldn’t have to choose between fast and reliable.
Slow, expensive, safe
Meetings, tickets, three-person team. Eventually you get a good app, after burning your runway and four months.
Fast AND built to last
I use AI to move through the predictable parts. I use 8 years of experience on the parts that matter, so it still works on month six.
Fast, then broken
Ships in a weekend, falls apart in a month. Hidden bugs, no tests, payments that double-charge, and a codebase no one else can fix.
Fast where it’s safe. Careful where it counts.
Not vibes. A repeatable way of building.
AI is a tool. I’m the builder.
AI helps me write code faster, but I decide what to build, how it fits together, and what to skip. You get the speed of AI with the judgment of a senior engineer, not a prompt gone wrong.
Boring reliability, on purpose.
Payments that don’t double-charge. Logins that don’t get hacked. Data that doesn’t disappear. The stuff users never notice is the stuff that keeps you in business.
Slow down where it matters.
Thirty minutes on the right design saves thirty days of rebuilding. I move fast on the easy parts and slow on the decisions you’ll regret, so you’re not rewriting at month six.
The toolkit I use to build yours.
Boring, battle-tested tools. The stuff that still works when I hand it over.
One person, end-to-end.
Frontend, backend, database, payments, deploys, monitoring. No handoffs, no “that’s not my part of the stack.” You talk to the person who writes the code.
An honest filter. So we both save time.
If you recognise yourself on the right, let’s talk.
- Cheapest dev on the planet. I’m not it.
- ‘Just hack it together’ throwaway demos.
- Projects with no clear outcome or user.
- Clients who want 12 meetings before any code.
- Anything shady, scammy, or legally grey.
- Founders serious about shipping a real product.
- Apps you plan to run for years, not weeks.
- Owners who’ve tried AI or a freelancer and need a reset.
- Teams that want one accountable engineer, not a pod.
- Projects where quality matters because real money moves.
Tools I’ve built and actually use.
Each one runs in production somewhere, mostly on my own stack.
invoiceapi
Generate beautiful invoice PDFs from JSON in under 100ms. No template design, no Chromium, no complexity.
opnchart
Open-source chart generator. Upload CSV or Excel files, create beautiful charts instantly. Runs entirely in your browser.
linksy
A fast, self-hosted, open-source alternative to Linktree and LinkStack. Built with Next.js + SQLite. No magic. No bloat.
gym-ledger
A self-hostable, mobile-first web app for tracking gym attendance, workouts, body metrics, and progress over time.
8+ years of shipping. Now with better tools.
Hi, I’m Abhinav. I build web apps founders actually launch.
I build software for a living, and I build it for fun too. Eight years in, I still get a dopamine hit from deploying a thing that works. Real users, real payments, real consequences when something goes wrong.
I’ve shipped full-stack JS/TS across Node, React, React Native and whatever database the moment calls for, from early-stage SaaS to production systems at Springworks, Forma, Onmo and OnceHub. Off-hours: a homelab that mostly stays up, a few tiny SaaS, and open source.
Recently, AI changed the speed of the work. I can ship what used to take a three-person team, in a fraction of the time. What it didn’t change is the judgment it takes to keep a product running past month one, which is still what you’re paying for.
More about me at abhinavankur.com
Tell me about your project. I reply within a day.
No pressure, no sales funnel. Just an honest read from someone who’s built a few.
Send me your app. I’ll review it for free.
Already have something live or half-built? Drop the link (or a repo) in the form. I’ll send back a short, honest read of what’s working, what’s not, and the one thing I’d fix this week.
- 15-minute engineering audit
- Security & performance red flags
- What I’d prioritize first
- Zero obligation to hire me
Got an idea, or a broken app?
Let’s fix it.
Send me a few lines about what you’re building. I’ll reply within a day with an honest read, whether it’s a fit, what it’d take, and what I’d do first.