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Field notes from building Shopify stores for international merchants. No filler, no listicles - just what we actually learned shipping themes, apps, and integrations.

Shopify + AIApr 28, 2026 · 8 min read · Deep Patel

How AI Personalization is Doubling Shopify Conversion Rates in 2026.

A breakdown of how leading Shopify stores are using LLM-powered product recommendations, dynamic pricing, and AI-generated copy to lift revenue without lifting ad spend.

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SaaSApr 14, 202611 min readDeep Patel

The 2026 SaaS Tech Stack for Startups That Want to Scale to $1M ARR.

After building 8 SaaS products this year, here's the exact stack we'd choose today for a founder who needs to move fast, stay cheap, and not rewrite everything at Series A.

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HiringMar 30, 20267 min readDeep Patel

How to Hire an Indian Dev Agency in 2026 Without Getting Burned.

Ten questions to ask before signing anything, three red flags that should end the conversation, and the contract clauses every Western founder should insist on.

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MobileMar 18, 20269 min readSahil Patel

React Native vs Kotlin in 2026 - The Honest Comparison After 14 Apps.

After shipping 14 mobile apps across both stacks this year, here's where each one wins, where they lose, and how we make the call on day one of a new project.

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DevOpsFeb 28, 20267 min readDeep Patel

From Vercel to Cloudflare Workers: A Migration Retrospective.

Why we moved a production SaaS app off Vercel, the gotchas around Workers runtime APIs, and the latency and cost numbers that justified two weekends of engineering time.

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Android + KotlinApr 20, 202610 min readSahil Patel

Kotlin Coroutines in 2026: The Pattern That Cut Our Android Network Latency by 40%.

How structured concurrency, proper dispatcher selection, and Flow-based data pipelines transformed our Android app's network performance - with real before/after benchmarks.

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Android + JavaMar 5, 20268 min readSahil Patel

Java to Kotlin Migration: What We Learned Rewriting 3 Enterprise Android Apps.

The good, the difficult, and the genuinely surprising parts of migrating large Java Android codebases to Kotlin - including the null-safety traps nobody warns you about.

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StrategyFeb 10, 20266 min readDeep Patel

Why Your Indian Tech Company Needs to Look Global From Day One.

The technical and design decisions that signal to international clients whether you're a serious partner - and the cheap shortcuts that signal the opposite.

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