Journal
What we learned, written down.
Engineering notes, product stories, experiments, and the occasional failure report. If we learned it the hard way, it goes here.
Building this website as a content pipeline
Why salim.it.com renders every page from Markdown in Git — and how the MDX pipeline works.
The story behind BuyMeASaaS
Small SaaS products were dying quietly when someone would have bought them. So we built the marketplace for second lives.
The story behind OpenLookup
How rebuilding the same email validation flow for the fourth time turned into a developer API company.
The graveyard is part of the portfolio
On killing ideas that don't deserve more time — and why archiving honestly beats zombie-maintaining.
Error handling patterns for Next.js Server Components
Practical patterns we use on every product — error boundaries, typed failures, and never lying to the user.
The story behind Twonest
We watched a father learn about his own baby's milestones through forwarded screenshots. So we built a pregnancy app for two.
Why SALIM Technologies exists
We kept building products, learning things, and letting the lessons evaporate. The company exists to fix that — build, write it down, open-source what helps.