Tony Ghouse

Backend Engineer crafting scalable systems & AI-powered products.

Chief Product Engineer @Socialravenapp

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@UiSavior Left

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

In 2014, Sam Altman gave a 1-hour masterclass on turning ideas into billion-dollar companies.

His frameworks:
• Best ideas look terrible at first
• Small markets that grow fast
• Users who love, not like

10 timeless lessons:

1. The idea matters more than you think

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

Love Java

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@nalinrajput23 Java

[Louis Nguyen @louisdainguyen]

Project Task Table.

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[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@stevelauda_ Man, this looks sci-fi

[Steve Lauda @stevelauda_]

Last week recap.

[Toby @TobyBelhome]

CRM admin dashboard with shadcn/ui

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@architjn n8n

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

An open-source graph–vector database built from scratch in Rust.

HelixDB combines graph and vector data natively, along with its own query language (HelixQL), to make building RAG pipelines more performant and accurate!

[Ibelick @Ibelick]

You can now import any Motion-Primitives component with the @shadcn CLI 🤝

[Siddharth Vij @siddharthvij_]

If you're always in the middle of redesigning your website, this is gold.

I went ahead & curated THE BEST SaaS web design styles for 2025.

Perfect if you're looking for cool inspiration for your new website.

RT & Comment 'SaaS' and I'll DM it.

(must be following for auto-dm)

[Code With Antonio @codewithantonio]

Alright, my longest ever tutorial (16+ hours) is out and free on youtube! ⬇️ Link below ⬇️

Are you ready to build your own Jira clone?
🏢 Workspaces
📊 Projects / Epics
✅ Tasks
📋 Kanban Board View
🗃️ Data Table View
📅 Calendar View
✉️ Invite System
⚙️ Workspace and Project Settings
🖼️ Image Uploads (for avatars and attachments)
🔌 @appwrite SDK Integration
⚛️ @nextjs 14 Framework
🎨 @shadcn UI & @tailwindcss Styling
🔍 Advanced Search and Filtering
📈 Analytics Dashboard
👥 User Roles and Permissions
🔒 Authentication (OAuth and Email)
📱 Responsive Design (Mobile-friendly)
🚀 API using @honojs

[Pontus Abrahamsson @pontusab]

Libraries I can’t live without:

-  nuqs - URL state management @nuqs
-  zuatand - State management
-  react-hook-form - Form handling
- zod - Schema validation
- next-safe-actions - Server actions
- UI - @shadcn
- AI - Vercel AI SDK
- date-fns - Date utilities
- next-international - i18n
- React Email - Email templates @resend
- Framer Motion - Animations
- Dub - Short links @dubdotco
- TanStack Table - Tables
- Sherif - monorepo linter

[shadcn @shadcn]

Introducing sidebar.tsx—25 components to help you build all kinds of sidebars.

I don't like building sidebars. So I built 30+ of them. All types. Then simplified the core into sidebar.tsx—a strong foundation to build on top of.

It works with Next.js, Remix, Vite & Laravel.

[Beka @bekacru]

This is everything you need for a ts auth server with:

- Social Sign-on
- 2FA (with totp & email otp)
- organization/team
- member and invitations
- email/password login
- password reset
- account and session management
- rate limiting
and more :)
https://t.co/1zqyJA3ATB

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@guerriero_se UI is sleek and visually stunning!

[Tony Ghouse @tonyghouse]

@David_Visuals_ I'm not usually into design, but this looks fantastic!

[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

Life is Short, Use Dev Tools

The right dev tool can save you precious time, energy, and perhaps the weekend as well.

Here are our favorite dev tools:

1 - Development Environment
A good local dev environment is a force multiplier. Powerful IDEs like VSCode, IntelliJ IDEA, Notepad++, Vim, PyCharm & Jupyter Notebook can make your life easy.

2 - Diagramming
Showcase your ideas visually with diagramming tools like DrawIO, Excalidraw, mindmap, Mermaid, PlantUML, Microsoft Visio, and Miro

3 - AI Tools
AI can boost your productivity. Don’t ignore tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Tabnine, Claude, Ollama, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.

4 - Hosting and Deployment
For hosting your applications, explore solutions like AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, Fly, Heroku, and Digital Ocean.

5 - Code Quality
Quality code is a great differentiator. Leverage tools like Jest, ESLint, Selenium, SonarQube, FindBugs, and Checkstyle to ensure top-notch quality.

6 - Security
Don’t ignore the security aspects and use solutions like 1Password, LastPass, OWASP, Snyk, and Nmap.

7 - Note-taking
Your notes are a reflection of your knowledge. Streamline your note-taking with Notion, Markdown, Obsidian, Roam, Logseq, and Tiddly Wiki.

8 - Design
Elevate your visual game with design tools like Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Canva, and Adobe Photoshop.

Over to you: Which dev tools do you use?

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[Alex Xu @alexxubyte]

My recommended materials for cracking your next technical interview

Coding
- Leetcode
- Cracking the coding interview book
- Neetcode

System Design Interview
- System Design Interview Book 1, 2 by Alex Xu, Sahn Lam
- Grokking the system design by Design Guru
- Design Data-intensive Application book

Behavioral interview
- Tech Interview Handbook (Github repo)
- A Life Engineered (YT)
- STAR method (general method)

OOD Interview
- Interviewready
- OOD by educative
- Head First Design Patterns Book

Mock interviews
- Interviewingio
- Pramp
- Meetapro

Apply for Jobs
- Linkedin
- Monster
- Indeed

Over to you: What is your favorite interview prep material?

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