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Ankita Kulkarni

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[Priority Access] 🎟 You're invited to my FREE "Engineering Leadership Blueprint" Workshop

Hey friend, ✨ I’m thrilled to share that I’m bringing back my popular workshop, Engineering Manager Blueprint and this time it’s completely FREE 🎁! 📆 When: September 3rd, 2025 - 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST 🤩 📍Where: Zoom Figuring out how to succeed as an Engineering Leader in 2023 can feel like walking through mud. Thankfully, after leading 100+ developers and leaders, I’ve developed a system to make that walk feel shorter and easier. In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn: A 8-part framework for...

Next.js Type safety

Hey Reader, Now that the Modern Full Stack Next.js Course is live and hundreds of students are already learning from it 🥳, I’ve started thinking about what to build next. I'd love to hear from you. What should I focus on next? I’m working on my next big course, and your input will help shape everything from the topics we cover to the real-world projects we build together. It only takes a couple of minutes to share your thoughts, but it’ll make a huge difference. 👉 Fill out the quick form here...

useTransition frozen ui fix

Hey Reader, I’ve rebuilt my stack for 2025 not because of hype, but because I need tools that help me ship faster while scaling my apps. A few months ago I created a similar video, but since then I have changed quite a few things to help me ship faster. I no longer use a few tools that I shared earlier. In this video, I share the exact principles from some production-ready apps I've shipped. If you’re building SaaS or side projects this year, this might save you weeks 👇. Show some love by...

Modern full stack nextjs course

Hey Reader, So… I just launched something I’ve been secretly working on for over a year 😅. It’s called The Modern Full Stack Next.js Course, a self-paced, interactive course where we actually ship modern, production-grade apps together (7+ real projects, 30+ exercises). Over 300+ developers around the world have already joined in the first 48 hours which blows my mind 🤯. If you’ve ever felt stuck trying to connect frontend and backend, decide between SSR/SSG/ISR, or ship something real beyond...

Server function in TanStack

Hey Reader, I just got back from Amsterdam after speaking at React Summit and wow, what a week! 🇳🇱 I gave a talk called React Framework Showdown 🥊, where I pitted Next.js, TanStack Start, and React Router v7 (aka Remix) against each other in a friendly battle. Why those three? Because they're leading the pack when it comes to modern React and honestly, each one brought something wildly different to the table. I'll share the talk when it's live, but for now, let’s hear it from this week's...

Block Pirated traffic

Hey Reader, Ever been stuck writing the same SQL queries over and over again… not because they’re hard, but because someone on your team needed the data and didn’t know how to get it? I’ve been there. Whether it’s marketing asking, “How many users signed up last week?” or product wondering, “Did anyone actually use that new feature?”, the questions are simple but the friction to get answers is very real. So I built something for that. Introducing: the AI Agent that talks directly to your...

Hey Reader, A couple years ago, I realized something unexpected: I was growing faster in my career not by doing more tutorials or chasing the next shiny framework but by finding a mentor. Want to level up your Next.js skills? → Find a mentor who has shipped production-ready apps. Want to get better at public speaking? → Find someone who’s done it before. At one point, I had multiple mentors, each helping me with something specific. Their guidance made all the difference and helped me focus.It...

AI SDK Wrapper

Hey Reader, A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off the AI Agent Series 🧠⚙️ and the response has been wild 🤯. So many of you said, “I had no idea it was this fast to build AI Agents”. I walkthrough simple AI Agent Frameworks like this to make it useful for you. AI Agent Framework No fluff, no abstractions. Just real tools, real use cases, and clean architecture that you can build on. And Today, we’re diving into an AI tool that every developer should be using and is probably missing from your...

The Subtle UX Trick That Makes Apps Feel Premium

Hey Reader, I’ve kicked off a brand-new series on YouTube: The AI Agent Series where you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and scale powerful AI Agents from scratch. To get started, check out the series here ↗. I listed down tasks I'd hire for and instead, built an AI Assistant Agent with Convex, WorkOS Authkit and Next.js. This week, I'm dropping a video showing 📹 How I shipped a AI Agent SaaS in just 13 minutes and we'll buid your own Assistant step-by-step. Now onto today’s sponsor 👇...

Create Your First AI Agent

Hey Reader, Ever Wish You Had a Senior Engineer Reviewing Your Code 24/7? 🧠Now you do and it’s powered by AI. This is Part 1 of my new AI Agent Series where we’re building and deploying real AI agents that can think, analyze, and act like a senior software engineer 🤓. This project is called AI Code Reviewer and it’s not just a fancy chatbot. It remembers past messages, gives contextual feedback and helps you ship better code, faster. Here's the Tech Stack: → ⚡ Next.js 15 + React 19 → 🧠 Convex...