My deliberately boring developer portfolio

2 thetruthseekah 0 6/10/2025, 8:16:03 AM saurav.dev ↗

After seeing countless developer portfolios with spinning logos, particle effects, and 8-second load times, I went the opposite direction.

Built saurav.dev with Next.js but kept it intentionally simple. 98 Lighthouse score overall, 100/100 for accessibility and SEO, WCAG 2.1 AA + GDPR compliant with proper cookie and privacy controls, sub-2 second loads via static generation.

My thesis: in a world of over-engineered portfolios, being the one that actually works IS the differentiator.

The irony: leveraged a modern framework to build something that feels deliberately minimal.

Link: https://saurav.dev

Curious what HN thinks - am I onto something or missing the point entirely?

Show HN: I made a 3D printed VTOL drone (tsungxu.com)

Show HN: A “Course” as an MCP Server (mastra.ai)

Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application

Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game (midword.com)

Show HN: High End Color Quantizer (github.com)

Show HN: Update to my meta glasses API "Hey Meta send a message to ChatGPT" (github.com)

Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass (github.com)

Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy

Show HN: I built a loadout building and sharing tool for Helldivers 2 (helldivehelper.net)

Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing (github.com)

Show HN: An open-source rhythm dungeon crawler in 16 x 9 pixels (github.com)

Show HN: Glowstick – type level tensor shapes in stable rust (github.com)

Show HN: A MCP server and client implementing the latest spec (github.com)

Show HN: Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat (github.com)

Show HN: Let’s Bend – Open-Source Harmonica Bending Trainer (letsbend.de)

Show HN: I am making an app to rival "Everything" (drimiteros.github.io)

Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device (networkedartifacts.com)

Show HN: Viberunner – build personal desktop apps in seconds (viberunner.me)

Show HN: macOS app PhotoSort could help reduce your monthly iCloud bill

Show HN: I made CSS-only glitch effect (muffinman.io)

Show HN: Zymo.tv (github.com)

Show HN: Pyleak – Detect asyncio issues causing AI agent latency (github.com)

Show HN: AI-Powered Music Creation Starts Here – Vibe Musicing (vibemusicing.com)

Show HN: Ask-human-mcp – zero-config human-in-loop hatch to stop hallucinations (masonyarbrough.com)

Show HN: An AI tutors that teaches AI (vivaverbalis.com)

Show HN: Altstack.jp, like European-alternatives.eu, for Japan (altstack.jp)

Show HN: GPT image editing, but for 3D models (adamcad.com)

Show HN: Interactive Enigma Machine Simulator (enigmasimulator.com)

Show HN: I made an open-source alternative to LangChain (itz.am)

Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator (godmodeai.cloud)

Show HN: I made a Markdown summariser for obsidian (and Markdown in general) (github.com)

Show HN: I made a mobile app that turns your step count into a race (stepracers.com)

Show HN: RenderDay: A GPU-only render farm for Blender (renderday.com)

Show HN: Lambduck, a Functional Programming Brainfuck (imjakingit.github.io)

Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API (thescreentimenetwork.com)

Show HN: Claude Composer (github.com)

Show HN: I made a 3D networked open world automation game with no game engine (store.steampowered.com)

Show HN: Container Use for Agents (github.com)

Show HN: Wrist/off – launch button for your Apple Watch (wristoff.com)

Show HN: Open source API for meeting transcripts and recordings (github.com)

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX (github.com)

Show HN: Mcp-hacker-news – An MCP server for accessing Hacker News data via LLMs (github.com)

Show HN: Autonomous AI Agent for e-signatures – chat/voice assistant (docendorse.com)

Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language (github.com)

Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization (seve.blog)

Show HN: Visualize nested list properties in the CodeLLDB debugger (github.com)

Show HN: MuJS Running on TempleOS (git.checksum.fail)

Show HN: SDFY: Fast 2D Vector Shapes and Shadows with Signed Distance Functions (github.com)

Show HN: NanoTS – Fast, embeddable, tiny time series database (github.com)

Show HN: Arxivlens – Save Hours Researching Scientific Literature on ArXiv (arxivlens.com)

My deliberately boring developer portfolio

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