What I'm shipping right now.
soypaul.co is my backup personal site and live indie status board. I use it to share what I'm building, what I'm testing, and what I'm learning from shipping real software.
What I'm actively working on.
Food and Fit product iteration
Improving onboarding, retention loops, and mobile UX for the next growth cycle.
Rails architecture experiments
Testing patterns for small teams that need speed without long-term codebase chaos.
Indie deployment playbooks
Documenting boring, reliable deploy setups for products that need uptime on lean budgets.
AI-assisted workflows
Using AI where it helps velocity and keeping human judgment where quality actually depends on it.
Public technical writing
Publishing short, practical notes that capture real decisions from active projects.
Long-term product ownership
Optimizing for maintainability, not launch theater: systems I can operate for years.
A practical log, not a polished brochure.
This is where I keep momentum visible: build updates, architecture notes, trade-offs, and production lessons.
Build → ship → document.
A repeatable cadence that keeps products moving and learning compounding.
Pick one high-leverage target
Define the most meaningful improvement for users or operations, then scope it tightly.
Ship it to production
Implement, test, deploy, and monitor. Real outcomes only count when users can feel them.
Write the lesson
Capture what changed, what surprised me, and what I'd do differently next time.
Useful if you are building without a big team.
Indie founders
You are shipping while learning, and you want practical patterns over generic startup advice.
Solo or tiny engineering teams
You need reliable ways to move fast without introducing fragile systems you will regret later.
Operators and technical generalists
You care about delivery, not hype, and want examples grounded in real product constraints.
Work and writing you can inspect.
Food and Fit case story: product build, architecture choices, and operational outcomes from a live indie app.
Action Push Native in production: reliability decisions around retries, token safety, and message delivery.
Tests as contracts: how I keep change velocity high without losing confidence in production behavior.
Need the full professional background?
badarau.net has my full portfolio and background. soypaul.co is where I share what I'm shipping right now.