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Hey, it’s been a while since my last update. I’ve been focused on a few projects behind the scenes, but I’m back with a major Weave milestone.
Weave helps professionals exchange time and expertise using Skill Hours instead of money.
My last update covered the invite application system. Since then, I’ve built:
Authentication: Secure account access with Firebase.
Onboarding: Guided profile and skill setup.
Profiles and portfolios: A place to showcase work, skills, and trust.
Member dashboard: A clear view of activity and ongoing work.
Admin dashboard: Tools for managing users and community health.
Skill Hour Ledger: Tracks every hour earned, spent, or transferred.
Marketplace: Members can publish requests and find collaborators.
Cloud infrastructure: Neon for data and storage, prepared for Cloudflare Workers.
Today’s milestone is the Exchange Workflow, the system connecting everything.
Members can now move from an accepted application into a dedicated workspace, communicate, share files, track milestones, submit deliverables, complete the exchange, transfer Skill Hours, and leave reviews.
The core Weave experience is finally taking shape, and I’m excited to share what comes next.
#BuildInPublic #WebDevelopment #ProductDesign #SaaS #NextJS #Contra
The milestone view makes the workflow feel tangible—especially the clear split between deliverables and activity. Nice product thinking in how you surface progress without adding noise.
Thanks, Rohan! Really appreciate you noticing those details🙌
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Congrats on completing the four months, Uzair! Your next-project focus is a good one. A small business site with an editable service catalogue could bring the responsive UI and PHP/MySQL pieces together in one useful case study. What are you planning to build first?
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Don't get me wrong.
Getting paid well for your work feels good.
But there's something else I've come to appreciate.
Freedom.
Being able to choose what I work on.
Being able to learn something because I'm curious.
Being able to take an idea and turn it into something real.
Being able to work with people from different industries.
Being able to look at something I built months ago and think:
“I know how I'd build this even better today.”
That's growth.
And that's one of the reasons I love working in web development.
The industry changes constantly.
So I have to keep changing too.
New tools.
New platforms.
New problems.
New possibilities.
There's always something else to figure out.
And honestly...
I wouldn't have it any other way.
What do you enjoy most about the work you do?
For me it is the moment an abstract idea turns into something people can actually use. After years of this, the pull has never really been the money, it is looking back at old work and knowing exactly how I would build it better now. That gap is the clearest proof I am still growing.
Check it out Marc did a fantastic job! He is great to work with, very responsive and also explained everything to me in simple terms to understand. Can't say enough about how helpful Marc was at all times! I would completely recommend him and would work with him again!
This is the review every founder should write — 'explained everything in simple terms' is the part most engineers skip, and it's the part that decides whether the next sprint gets approved. Congrats to you both.