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Context Art Way is a booking SaaS I built solo for a creative studio — dancers, musicians, and event organizers renting rehearsal rooms by the hour. The domain is narrow: rooms, bookings, users, notifications. Scale is modest — dozens of bookings a week, a single VPS running Django + Celery + Postgres behind nginx. Nothing that needs sharding or a gRPC mesh. What did matter: the frontend is Next.js 15 with React 19 and TypeScript, consuming the API from both client and server components. A typed frontend changes the economics of your API design. Type drift between backend response shapes and frontend interfaces is a constant source of bugs, and in a one-person project there’s no code-review safety net to catch it. OpenAPI wasn’t optional — I needed a machine-readable contract that the frontend could consume. And boilerplate is the enemy of a solo developer: every file I write to wire up DRF is a file I can’t spend on actual features. ...

The pitch SafeWay is a mobile-first incident-logging and safety-management tool for industrial sites — factories, construction sites, warehouses. The core loop: a worker spots a hazard or a near-miss, opens the app, logs it with photo and location, routes it to a supervisor, and tracks resolution. Safety officers get dashboards; supervisors get task queues; workers get a form that’s faster than paper. Development started in 2019. The product went into production use in 2021. It runs on a free / lite / pro tier model, available on iOS and Android. Four years of real production workloads, real users, real 3am pages. ...

The itch My home DJ rig runs djay Pro, Mixxx, or Ableton Live depending on the session — all three speak Ableton Link, so tempo stays consistent across apps on the same machine. The problem is my Novation Circuit Tracks. It’s a hardware sampler and step sequencer whose only tempo input is MIDI clock: 24 pulses per quarter note over USB. It has no knowledge of Ableton Link. The gap meant tap-tempo every time I started a set, and then again mid-mix whenever the Circuit drifted a few milliseconds behind the laptop. Tap-tempo is the wrong solution — it trades a solved synchronisation problem for a manual one. What I needed was something that joins the Link session, reads the current tempo, and feeds it to the Circuit as a continuous MIDI clock stream. ...