Ankit Mehta

Developer & founder. Building @monkfunnel, conversion-first websites for startups.
Sharing what I learn about code, growth, and shipping things.

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I build websites that are supposed to do one job:
turn a visitor into a customer.

most code i see is clean, well structured, tested ,
and completely disconnected from whether the
business it belongs to actually grows.

i got more interested in the second part

so now I build with both in mind:
the code has to be right, and it has to move a number.

i am going to share what I learn doing both here.

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backend concept that finally clicked this week: indexing.

i knew "add an index to make queries faster."
i did not actually understand WHY until i watched a query
go from 800ms to 4ms on a table I'd populated with fake rows.

an index is just a sorted lookup structure so the database
stops scanning every single row to find what you asked for.
like the index at the back of a book vs reading the whole thing.

the catch nobody mentions: every index you add makes
writes slower, because now there's more to keep updated.

everything in backend is a tradeoff, nothing is free

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unpopular opinion for 2026:

"Full-stack developer" tells me nothing anymore

everyone's full-stack now, the AI fills the gaps.

what's actually rare:
someone who can take a vague problem,
decide what NOT to build,
and ship the version that works.

That judgment is the job.
The stack is just tools.

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Founders spend weeks picking fonts.
Then wonder why their site doesn't convert.
Ship fast. Test what works. Fix what doesn't.

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@SahilExec developer B's .env file

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@sflorimm because the $200 MVP shows them exactly
what they need to pay $25k to fix

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Rebuilding the monkfunnel site from scratch this week.

Old version: 7 sections, 3 CTAs,
a testimonials section I hadn't earned yet,
and a footer with more links than the page had reasons to exist.

New version: what we do, why it works, one button.

If I can't make my own page convert,
I have no business redesigning anyone else's.

Before/after dropping when it's live.

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@angehyc you push the code and pull the rejection

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@Zinny_Edmund a swagger doc nobody will read and
a postman collection that stopped working in 2023

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@MohitKashyap159 @Im_IrushiK fair. until you update it

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@MohitKashyap159 @Im_IrushiK bro found the one bug-free dimension

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@andi_losing looks pretty clean 💯

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@jahirsheikh8 Startup Founder: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, burnout, 0, 0, 0, maybe?

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@Im_IrushiK Classic. 😭

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@SahilExec I'd ship websockets, but only after proving I actually need them. polling costs you every 5 seconds forever

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@Gooddlovee hello builders

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@ParthJadhav8 congrats man

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@JonBuildsHQ pretty amzing

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@ChainChaserVN Heyyy