Nitin M.
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I Built a Free ATS Resume Builder Because Every Other One Lies About Being Free
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I Built a Free ATS Resume Builder Because Every Other One Lies About Being Free

Let me describe a thing that happens to people every day. Someone is job hunting. They find a resume builder that says "free" in the headline. They spend 45 minutes filling it in. Their name. Their work history. Their education. Every job they have held and every skill they have built over years of work.

24 May 2026
5 min
I Built a Free Tool That Scores Your UI Design Out of 100 — Here Is Why and How It Works
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I Built a Free Tool That Scores Your UI Design Out of 100 — Here Is Why and How It Works

There is a feeling every designer knows. You have been staring at the same layout for three hours. Everything looks correct. The colors make sense. The typography is decent. The content is there. But something is off. Not obviously broken. Just... wrong. And you cannot name it.

24 May 2026
6 min
How Much Should a Freelance Designer Charge in India in 2026? An Honest Pricing Guide
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How Much Should a Freelance Designer Charge in India in 2026? An Honest Pricing Guide

I get this question more than any other. Friends. New designers in DMs. Founders trying to budget for a website. Even other freelancers who have been doing this for years but are still secretly unsure.

16 May 2026
8 min
Why Most Designer Portfolios Fail to Get Clients (And What Actually Works in 2026)
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Why Most Designer Portfolios Fail to Get Clients (And What Actually Works in 2026)

I have looked at hundreds of designer portfolios over the past decade. As a freelancer hiring collaborators. As a designer reviewing peer work. As a developer building websites for other agencies. And honestly, as someone who spent way too long with a bad portfolio of his own.

16 May 2026
7 min
I Built My Portfolio With Next.js 14 in 2026 — Here Is What I Learned (And Why I Did Not Upgrade to 15)
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I Built My Portfolio With Next.js 14 in 2026 — Here Is What I Learned (And Why I Did Not Upgrade to 15)

I shipped my portfolio rebuild at nitinmonga.in in early 2026 using Next.js 14 with the App Router. By that point, Next.js 15 had been out for over a year and Next.js 16 was already in beta. Plenty of people in my Twitter feed asked the obvious question: "Why are you still on 14?"

16 May 2026
8 min

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