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Dave Kurian

Building with Open Template Forest and OTF kits.

Boston, USA Joined on Jun 1, 2026 https://otf-kit.dev

Sep 22

Honest status pages after sandbox exit: component status, timeline, and incident updates

6 min read

Sep 21

Rolling deploys on an owned backend: health checks, drain, and rollback

6 min read

Sep 21

Postgres connection pooling after sandbox exit so concurrent AI traffic cannot melt the DB

6 min read

Sep 20

Timed database restore drills into an isolated target prove RTO and RPO

6 min read

Sep 20

Audit trail events for SaaS ops: append-only who-did-what you can query

6 min read

Sep 20

API timeouts and retries when your app calls AI backends you own

6 min read

Sep 20

Make product docs citation-ready with Sources, schema, and answer-first pages

7 min read

Sep 20

Structured production logs with correlation IDs agents can triage

7 min read

Sep 19

Booking kit: sell session packages as owned prepaid rows, not ghost one-off appointments

6 min read

Sep 19

Landing templates: rebrand every section from one site.ts, not a ghost regenerate

7 min read

Sep 19

SaaS kit: keep Issues board as owned five-column Kanban, not a ghost board

7 min read

Sep 19

Fitness kit: finish every live workout as one owned row, not a ghost timer

7 min read

Sep 19

SaaS kit: Stripe Customer Portal for self-serve plan changes and cancels

7 min read

Sep 19

Booking kit: stop double-booking with range exclusions and live slots

7 min read

Sep 18

Marketplace kit: buyer hire flow, seller workspace, and Stripe checkout you own

7 min read

Sep 18

Better Auth on Expo: SecureStore sessions, cookiePrefix match, getCookie APIs

5 min read

Sep 18

Everything Bundle vs one $99 kit: when the $149 pack pays for itself

7 min read

Sep 18

Free SDK vs paid kit: when buying actually pays for itself at checkout

6 min read

Sep 18

Keep unsigned users off product screens with one Expo Router root gate

6 min read

Sep 18

Gemini Arena labels are not API pins: eval before you swap models

5 min read

Sep 18

Harbor on Vercel Sandbox: parallel Terminal-Bench without your laptop

5 min read

Sep 17

Install Expo Skills so Cursor and Claude Code follow official Expo patterns

6 min read

Sep 17

Tailwind UI to Tailwind Plus: run the license and paste gate before your next block

6 min read

Sep 17

NextUI to HeroUI: run the rename and package gate before product work

6 min read

Sep 17

Paywall conversion for first paid users starts with one promise and one gate

6 min read

Sep 17

Expo SDK 58 beta: test iOS 27 scenes and agent CLI before leaving 57

7 min read

Sep 17

Claude Opus 5.2 routing rumors: what builders should do before Anthropic confirms

#ai #productivity #opensource #coding

6 min read

Sep 17

Mantine full suite vs assembling a thinner headless stack for web SaaS

7 min read

Sep 17

Claude Opus 5.2 routing rumors: what builders should do before Anthropic confirms

6 min read

Sep 17

React Native Paper owns Material components; you still own the product kit

#reactnative #mobile #architecture #ai

6 min read

Sep 16

GitHub Copilot joins AI SDK HarnessAgent: swap runtimes without rewriting your agent UI

5 min read

Sep 16

Gemini 3.8 Live on AI Gateway: ship realtime voice with visual grounding

7 min read

Sep 16

RNUI as org design system vs a thinner custom layer

6 min read

Sep 16

Gluestack UI v5 skips Next.js for now — stay on v4 or split your surfaces

6 min read

Sep 16

Expo MCP in Claude: connect once for EAS builds and store feedback

5 min read

Sep 15

Cursor Self-Hosted Machines put tool execution on your workers

5 min read

Sep 15

Vercel Sandbox storage is now 64 GB: size agent workspaces for large repos

5 min read

Sep 15

React Native Paper owns Material components; you still own the product kit

6 min read

Sep 15

Ant Design owns enterprise Form and Table depth; kits own SaaS and native

6 min read

Sep 15

Radix primitives give accessibility; you still own the designed system

7 min read

Sep 15

AI SDK harness auth: keep native subscriptions on the host boundary

6 min read

Sep 15

NativeWind is Tailwind classes on React Native — components are still yours

6 min read

Sep 15

Tamagui is the cross-platform engine — you still choose who owns the design system

5 min read

Sep 15

OpenAI project API keys can expire: set max lifetime and rotate secrets

6 min read

Sep 15

EAS Observe in production: tie startup metrics to every build and update

7 min read

Sep 15

Material UI stays web-first: keep it or move to an owned kit

7 min read

Sep 14

Claude Code plugin eval: gate skills on delta before you merge

#agents #ai #llm #testing

5 min read

Sep 14

Chakra UI still wins for web-only React; switch when mobile parity matters

6 min read

Sep 14

Vercel deployment protection is free: lock previews and production without the add-on

6 min read

Sep 14

Fake Claude Code installers: keep keys out of agent-readable paths

6 min read

Sep 14

OpenAI Agents on Vercel: own the Queue and Sandbox hosting seam

6 min read

Sep 14

Fitness kit: screens, schema, and agent prompts after purchase

9 min read

Sep 14

OpenRouter residency and ZDR: split the base URL and retention controls

8 min read

Sep 14

Cursor Projects: put the kit spine in the repo before you hand the coordinator the wheel

8 min read

Sep 14

How to build a SaaS app with AI from a day-1 owned monorepo

7 min read

Sep 14

How to build a landing page with AI (owned templates path)

9 min read

Sep 14

How to build a booking system with AI (owned product path)

7 min read

Sep 14

OpenRouter Fusion: escalate hard prompts to a panel; keep the policy in your repo

#agents #ai #api #llm

6 min read

Sep 13

OpenRouter hosted shell: any model gets a terminal; your product repo still owns the loop

7 min read

Sep 12

OpenAI Agents API: what you still own when the harness is hosted

6 min read

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