Ali Afana

Building AI products from Gaza. Cybersec student turned AI builder. Creating Provia — an AI sales platform. I document every bug, fix, and lesson. The journey is the content. Follow along.

Gaza Joined on Apr 8, 2026 ali.afanatv@gmail.com https://provia-saas.vercel.app/about

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Information Security / Cybersecurity

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Founder at Provia | Cybersecurity Student

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The Two-Context Architecture design pattern

Ali Afana

Apr 25

I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot — Each Solution Revealed the Next Problem

#ai #webdev #javascript #architecture

9 min read

Ali Afana

Apr 18

How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change

#ai #webdev #saas #architecture

8 min read

Ali Afana

Apr 12

I Asked My AI 'That's Sold Out, Right?' — It Had 5 in Stock and Still Said Yes

#ai #webdev #javascript #programming

5 min read

Ali Afana

Apr 8

My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why

#ai #webdev #javascript #beginners

6 min read

Identifies 100x cost gaps between features

Ali Afana

Apr 30

OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

#ai #webdev #openai #monitoring

8 min read

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Ali Afana

Apr 20

A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

#a11y #webdev #ai #buildinpublic

5 min read

Ali Afana

Apr 13

Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked

#security #webdev #javascript #ai

7 min read

Ali Afana

Apr 11

Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)

#ai #webdev #javascript #beginners

11 min read

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I Fixed 5 Chained AI Bugs in My Sales Chatbot — Each Solution Revealed the Next Problem

How I Cut My AI Chatbot Costs by 55% With One Architecture Change

I Asked My AI 'That's Sold Out, Right?' — It Had 5 in Stock and Still Said Yes

My AI Kept Recommending Pajamas for Date Night — Here's Why

OpenAI Tells You What You Spent. Not Where. So I Built a Dashboard.

Want to connect with Ali Afana ?

A Stranger Audited My AI Product for Free. Here's What They Found.

Every API Route in My App Was Wide Open — Here's What I Found When I Finally Checked

Why Your AI Is Lying to Your Customers ?(Prompt Engineering Won't Fix It)