ReClaim — Scalable, Campus-Centric Property Recovery via High-Dimensional Visual Search
Lost-and-found systems on campuses are difficult to scale. Lost items are usually described with vague text, while found items often sit in administ…
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I Built Software for Families Who Share a Holiday Home (So WhatsApp Stops Running the Place)
Sharing a holiday home with family or friends is great until the admin starts. Who’s in next weekend? Did someone already claim Easter? Who was mean…
From Learning to Implementation: My Journey with Firebase Analytics & GA4
Over the past few weeks, I've been focused on deepening my understanding of mobile analytics—not just by completing a course, but by putting those c…
Firebase Analytics in React Native — Complete Implementation Guide
Analytics is one of the most valuable tools you can add to a mobile application. While building features is important, understanding how users inter…
I Didn't Plan to Build an Offline-First Attendance System. Firestore Forced Me To.
How accidentally exhausting Firestore's free-tier limit transformed a rushed MVP into a more resilient anti-proxy attendance system. Introduction Wh…
Treating Firestore as a public cache
Using Firestore as "the app's primary database" is easy at first. Writes and reads complete in one place, and onSnapshot gives you realtime push for…
InsForge vs Firebase: AI-Native Postgres Alternative
Originally published on the InsForge blog , written by Hang Huang (CEO & Co-Founder). Reposted here with permission. Firebase and InsForge both…
PanelControl: a 65-file business app, in vanilla JavaScript with no framework
PanelControl is an internal business app I designed and maintain solo for an official myPOS reseller: sales, onboarding, shipping, staff shifts, HR,…
I Spent the Past Few Weeks Building a Cinema App with React & Firebase 🎬
Like many developers, I started this project with a simple idea: "What if there was a place that made discovering films feel intentional again?" Tha…
A plaintext Firebase password authenticated anyone who visited the site — here's how I fixed it without disconnecting anyone
While doing a routine hardening pass on an internal Firebase panel — codename PanelControl , a management tool used daily by multiple operators with…
Supabase vs Firebase
Both Supabase and Firebase promise the same thing: a backend you don't have to build, with auth, a database, storage, and real-time out of the box.…
Streaming Real-Time AI Telemetry with Firebase Genkit and Angular Signals
We’ve all been there. You click a button in a modern web app, and you’re immediately greeted by a generic loading spinner. You sit there, staring at…
PWA with React + Leaflet: lessons from a 31-city map app
Notes from shipping a real-world PWA in Korea: Vite SSG is worth it. SPAs lose Korean SEO because Naver's crawler doesn't fully render JS. Leaflet &…
Who's Online on the Site, Without Tidio: Live Presence and Visitor History with Firebase
A client wanted to know who was on their site and on which page, the way Tidio's widget showed them — but without paying for a Tidio subscription, o…
Flutter Firebase Remote Config: Control Your App Without Releasing Again
There's a moment every developer hits. You ship an app and then immediately realize : "I should hide this feature" "This API needs to change" "We ne…
Firebase Security Rules deserve better IDE support
I have been writing Cloud Firestore Security Rules for years, and I usually edit them in the same place where I do the rest of my work: Android Stud…
Dynamic file catalog with Firebase RTDB + Storage (and how I fixed a Service Worker cache bug)
The Utility section of my internal PWA had a problem: the file catalog was hardcoded in the HTML. Every time a file was added or removed, it require…
The Complete Guide to Firebase Security Rules: Why They Matter and how to Write Them
When building modern web and mobile applications, backend security is often the most stressful piece of the puzzle. Traditional architectures requir…
Custom e-commerce on Firebase: catalog, atomic orders and admin panel
How I built a fully custom e-commerce from scratch using Firebase Realtime Database and Netlify — no off-the-shelf platforms: per-product pricing va…
Signed token between two PWAs: HMAC-SHA256 with no backend
How I passed the logged-in user’s identity from one PWA to another running on a completely separate Firebase project — without writing a single line…
How We Built a Hyperlocal Coupon Platform for Small-Town India
The Problem Small local shops in Tier-2/3 Indian cities (such as Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, and Dindigul) often have zero digital presence. They have no…
How I Built a Hyperlocal Coupon Platform with Next.js Firebase for Small-Town India
The Problem Small local shops in Tier-2/3 Indian cities (think Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Dindigul) have zero digital presence . No website, no app, no w…
Building a Real-Time Task Manager with Next.js and Firebase - Lessons from the Trenches
Building a Real-Time Task Manager with Next.js and Firebase - Lessons from the Trenches I recently built a task management app to learn Firebase pro…
"EcoSphere AI: Why I separated 'logic' from 'AI' when building a carbon footprint assistant"
The Trap Most Carbon Apps Fall Into When you say "build a carbon footprint app," the obvious move is: collect some inputs, ask an LLM "how much CO2…
PWA with React + Leaflet: lessons from a 31-city map app
Notes from shipping a real-world PWA in Korea: Vite SSG is worth it. SPAs lose Korean SEO because Naver's crawler doesn't fully render JS. Leaflet &…
Migrate to Firebase Server Prompt Template in Angular using Dependency Injection [GDE]
Migrate to Firebase Server Prompt Template in Angular using Dependency Injection Firebase released Server Prompt Templates to host prompt templates…
The Weekend I Finally Finished 17 Projects
You know that feeling when you open a folder you haven't touched in months and find... yourself? Not metaphorically. I mean literally — old projects…
Configuring Firebase AI Logic for Android to Use Gemini Models
What device do we use almost all the time? Our mobile phone, almost certainly. If we wanted to develop mobile apps, we would have wondered how to in…
The Solo Developer Who Ships What Entire Teams Once Built.
The solo agentic developer is real and the tech stack that makes it possible is already here. The team of one just got a superpower. Two years ago,…
From Student Dev to Agent Architect: What Google I/O 2026 Changed for Me
This is a submission for the Google I/O Writing Challenge Watching I/O 2026 as a student developer I’m a cybersecurity and full‑stack student who li…