Abdool | Laravel & AI

Re-coding my past, building my future. 🚀
Documenting my journey: Transforming an old PHP project into a modern Laravel + AI app.
Building in public, one commit

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I lost the code…

…but I never forgot the idea.

Around 3 years ago, I built a real estate project for a university course.

Nothing special.Just PHP, HTML, and a lot of confusion.

Today, I don’t even know where that code is.

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@r0ktech JS

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Eid Mubarak 🤍

Hope life treats you gently,and your code compiles on the first try this time 😅

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https://t.co/3uz3vcX3WX

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A few days ago,I pushed the project to GitHub.

Didn’t mention it here at first because I was still organizing things and figuring stuff out.

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But now it finally feels right to make the journey public properly.

Still early.Still messy.Still changing almost every day.

But this time,I’m building it the way I always wanted to.

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@shariar_design Left

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@shariar_design @truongphamit Right

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my mind started feeling less cluttered.

I open it every day now.

At this point,
it genuinely feels less like an app…

and more like an extension of my brain.

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I used to hear people call Notion:

“a second brain.”

Honestly?

I thought it was just another productivity phrase people repeat online.

1/2

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But after using it seriously…

I finally understood it.

Notion slowly became the place where I dump:

- ideas
- plans
- random thoughts
- things I don’t want to forget

And weirdly enough…

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@VaibhavLLMs I use Antigravity

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- navigating the project

- understanding the structure

- moving between different parts of the system

Small improvements…
but they add up when you’re building every day.

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Lately, I’ve been paying more attention to the environment I build in.

Not just the code itself.

A good editor/workflow genuinely changes how you think while building systems.

Started using Google AntiGravity recently,
and it made the whole process feel smoother:

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@magadum_aniket I will you it in my project

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@magadum_aniket New information from you 😉

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For example:

What happens if:

- a property already has an active offer?
- a visit gets canceled?
- a deposit is rejected?

These small decisions shape the whole system.

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One thing I’m realizing while building this:

The hard part isn’t writing code.

It’s deciding how the system should behave.

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Also spent time improving the roles & permissions structure.

This article by @HardikSavani19 genuinely helped me understand and implement a lot of things faster.

Took some ideas and adapted parts of the code to fit my project.

https://t.co/wGdIBzsCdf

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Started working on the actual code today.

For the admin panel, I used the NiceAdmin template as a starting point instead of building everything from scratch.

It saved me a lot of time and helped me focus more on the system itself rather than the UI.

https://t.co/fgq9AigeWZ

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@magadum_aniket Is it normal to use ai with coding in laraval ?