Why I Removed the Word AI From Everything Visitors Could See
My rate pipeline had a last-resort layer that queried AI providers for rates when every scraper failed, and early on I labelled…
lessons learned
Building the Rate Engine: City-Aware Shortcodes in WordPress
One rates table, dozens of ways people want to see it, a live headline number, a full table, a trend graph, a…
Why I Built a Live Gold and Silver Rate Site for Pakistan
In Pakistan, gold and silver are not abstractions, they are weddings, savings, and Eid gifts, and everyone checks the rate. The rate…
What Building MaidsMe Taught Me About Judgment Over Code
MaidsMe was the project where my hardest problems stopped being technical. The limo plugin taught me debugging, payments, and timing rules. This…
Why a Trust Platform Lives or Dies on How It Looks
A family hiring someone to work inside their home judges the platform in the first three seconds, before reading a word. If…
The Database, and the Tables I Deleted When I Changed Direction
By the second redesign, I had stopped thinking of the plugin as code with a database attached, and started seeing it truthfully,…
Building Forms the Admin Can Shape, Not Ones Frozen in Code
A maid’s profile needs different fields from a driver’s. Cooking specialities for one, licence class for the other. The naive build hardcodes…
Why No Profile Went Public Until a Human Approved It
Most platforms race content live, sign up, post, visible in seconds. MaidsMe does the opposite on purpose, a worker completes a profile…
The Hiring Flow That Gives Everyone Exactly What They Need
The teardown left MaidsMe with one central flow, and this post builds it end to end. An employer browses profiles without any…
The One Privacy Rule That Shaped the Whole Platform
Every platform has one rule that, if you trace it, explains half the codebase. For MaidsMe it is this, no worker’s phone…