Umar Bashir Rather

Full-time software engineer · Building SaaS & AI products

Shipping in public

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

👋 I’m Umar, full-time software engineer, self-taught for 5+ years.

By day: engineering at work
By night: building SaaS & AI products

Current builds:
• Baat Suno: AI dictation (speech → intent → formatted output) - Open Source
• Expenie: Personal finance

Stack: TypeScript · Node · React · PostgreSQL · Redis · AI APIs · NextJS

Here to share what I build, learn, and ship.

Follow along if you’re into AI agents, local LLMs, or product engineering.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

I am doing SEO and AEO because it is a requirement for a website to get organic traffic. I don't think so. If you don't have good SEO and, at this moment, AEO, you are going to get organic traffic. It's very difficult. If you have money to burn on ads, go ahead but I think SEO will help you in the long term.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@Daniel_Farinax By the way I also canceled my ChatGPT subscription and I'm onboarded on Cursor now. Thanks to Poteto I actually got my free credits

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@Daniel_Farinax Great portfolio man

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

For me I'll go with Vercel if I'm just starting out. AWS maybe for bigger projects where I know I have a lot of things and I know I already have customers. Let's say a B2B kind of project where I know who my customer is or I already have some waitlist. I think in that case I might go with AWS but for now Vercel.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@TTrimoreau I am definitely going for the Cursor Ultra because, to me, at this point, Cursor Ultra is the best value

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@Saas_addy But you forget to add SpaceXAI in this.

I think they are the power user here. Most of the things are run by them.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@RaviR_S Congratulations man

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@doja_dan Way to goo man! Congratulations on this milestone

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@lightsilver323 Hey, everyone solo developer here, building products and trying to ship something every day. If you're in the same thing, let's connect.

Currently, I'm working on my product which is https://t.co/dPigm5haHf.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@rdbuilds7 I'm currently working on a product which is https://t.co/dPigm5hIwN so basically a platform where other builders can list their product

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@power_CEO_ Absolutely agree, man totally agree.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@commas Product looks cool.We'll check it out

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@edinsoncode https://t.co/VMAXle6oEJ

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@noorkhan7845 Hey, everyone Umar here, working on my list maro.

Let's connect.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@ElitzaVasileva That is the trend going on over the x

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@damonchen @jonathan_wilke It's all about audience, man.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@buildwtim I will take the lower one for sure

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@Guronnimo Hey everyone! Lets connect. I am currently working on my https://t.co/BKSbqpY5Gk

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@DanielSmidstrup They all have one thing in common, audience.

Without audience, launching feels like screaming in void.

[Umar Bashir Rather @umar_who_code]

@manas_acharyya For sure man