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The next project i’m showcasing from the list of projects i’ve built this year is a full-featured hotel website with direct bookings, booking management and lots more👇🏾 Why are hotels still losing 15-25% of their revenue to Booking. com and Expedia commissions? To solve this, I designed and engineered a custom, enterprise-grade Direct Booking Engine & Property Management System (PMS) from the ground up. I set out to build a highly optimized, 5-star luxury website, but it quickly evolved into a full-scale hospitality machine capable of automating a hotel's entire front desk. Here is a look under the hood at the architecture and features: The Tech Stack: Built for blazing speed and SEO using Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, and Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Storage, & Admin SDK). Key System Features: Smart Automation (Cron Jobs): Built secure Next.js API routes that run hourly to auto-cancel unpaid 24-hour holds, trigger 12-hour payment reminder webhooks, and alert staff of no-shows. Live Inventory Matrix: Engineered a real-time, visual room availability grid that maps active bookings to physical room numbers, managing walk-in constraints to absolutely prevent double-booking. Dynamic Offers Engine: A complex checkout algorithm that monitors date-picker data (like minimum-night requirements) to dynamically calculate and apply conditional discounts before writing strict payloads to the database. Premium Media Architecture: Built a custom media component that seamlessly renders videos as silent, auto-playing background elements for a high-end luxury aesthetic. Guest CRM & Analytics: Tracks Guest Lifetime Value (LTV), actual check-in/check-out stay history, and dynamic revenue trend charts. I focused heavily on creating an "app-like" mobile UX, utilizing native iOS-style bottom sheets and horizontal scroll-snap masonry galleries to make the direct booking experience feel incredibly premium. Whether you're a hotel owner tired of clunky third-party booking software, or a developer interested in Next.js/Firebase architecture, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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Spent the last few days shipping two major upgrades to the AI career toolkit I'm building. The first is a much smarter CareerFit Report under the ATS System Feature. Instead of just returning a match score, it now analyzes resumes semantically against a job description and explains why you're a good (or poor) fit. It provides recruiter-style feedback, highlights missing skills, identifies transferable strengths, suggests stronger resume bullet points, recommends learning paths, and even shows how your match could improve after making targeted changes. The second is a new Live Mock Interview experience. After analyzing your resume and the job description, the AI conducts a realistic interview tailored specifically to that role. It asks technical, behavioral, and system design questions, adapts to your responses, and provides feedback just like an interviewer would. The goal has never been to build another resume generator. I want to build a career toolkit that actually helps people prepare, improve, and become more competitive before they hit "Apply." Still plenty left to build, but seeing the vision come together one feature at a time has been incredibly rewarding.

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I’m incredibly excited to finally share what I’ve been building over the last few weeks: Vera. 🚀 We've all been handed a 20-page contract or terms of service agreement and just blindly signed it because who has the time (or the legal degree) to read through the jargon? I built Vera to fix that. Vera is an AI-powered risk engine that instantly scans your contracts, highlights high-risk clauses, identifies financial exposure, and translates legal jargon into plain English. As a solo developer, building a product that handles sensitive user data required an absolute obsession with architecture, security, and user experience. Here’s a look under the hood at how I built it: Tech Stack: Next.js (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS AI Integration: Rather than just slapping a generic prompt into an LLM, I engineered a highly constrained, multi-stage reasoning pipeline. Vera utilizes DeepSeek/OpenAI strict structured outputs (JSON schemas) and specialized prompt architecture to deterministically extract legal red flags, financial exposure, and clause conflicts with zero hallucination. Security First: Implemented strict Content-Security-Policies (CSP), server-side Firebase session revocation, and robust API rate-limiting. Contracts are processed 100% in-memory, files are never stored on a hard drive or cloud bucket. Flexible Payments: Integrated LemonSqueezy to handle both $10/mo recurring subscriptions and flexible $5 one-time top-ups, synced seamlessly with a Firebase backend. Polished UX: Built custom React drag-and-drop zones, buttery smooth GPU-accelerated page transitions, and intelligent client-side routing guards to completely eliminate UI flash. Building a secure, production-ready SaaS involves so much more than just hooking up an API wrapper. Vera is the most robust web app I’ve built to date. I'd love for you to check it out! Let me know what you think of the UI and the analysis accuracy. 👇 https://verahq.xyz (https://verahq.xyz)#BuildInPublic (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23buildinpublic&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #Nextjs (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23nextjs&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #SaaS (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23saas&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #WebDevelopment (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23webdevelopment&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #AI (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23ai&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #CyberSecurity (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23cybersecurity&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED) #TypeScript (https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=%23typescript&origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED)

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Ascent is a free lightweight career toolkit designed to help you land your next big job. Here is what it does in one dashboard: Resume Builder: Standard, ATS-friendly layouts. Instead of typing everything manually, you can paste in raw text from your old resume, and it auto-fills the entire builder instantly. Cover Letter Writer: Generates tailored, professional letters. You can toggle between linking it to your resume context or keeping it completely sandboxed. Interview Prep: It analyzes your resume against a target job description and writes 5 highly specific behavioral/technical questions with custom STAR-method answers based on your actual experience. I spent a lot of time perfecting the front-end rendering and print styles. The PDF exports look like clean, standard A4 documents and it downloads perfectly on both desktop and mobile.

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Somtochukwu Ike

Building custom web experiences.