Ansari Bilal — Sales Agent by Day, Builder by Night

Self-taught developer building AI tools, productivity apps and open-source projects. 20+ apps shipped, 14+ Hugging Face Spaces.

Latest posts

• Graphify: Notes Into a Queryable Knowledge Graph — Turn Markdown notes into a queryable knowledge graph — entities, relationships, edges any LLM agent can traverse. My second brain setup inside.
• Meta Astryx: Rust-Powered Successor to React Native? — Meta open-sourced Astryx — a Rust runtime replacing React Native's JS bridge. I built a hello-world and analyzed what it means for cross-platform.
• Aura.build Review: The AI App Builder I Actually Use — I tested Aura.build against Lovable, Bolt.new, and v0. Here's where Aura wins, where it still hurts, and why it's the AI app builder I actually kept using.
• Superhero UI: The Boldest React Library of 2026? — Superhero UI is loud, colorful, pop-art — the anti-shadcn. I rebuilt a dashboard with it. When it wins, hurts, and vs Aceternity and Magic UI.
• Agency-Agents: Running a Multi-Agent Team in Claude Code — Agency-agents treats AI agents like a consultancy — PM, engineer, designer, QA — with clear roles and hand-offs. I tested it against CrewAI and AutoGen.
• Build a Free WhatsApp Bot in Node.js with OpenWA — Automate WhatsApp with pure Node.js — no Twilio, no Business API, no per-message fees. Full setup with QR login, message handlers, media, and a template repo.
• 12 Weeks of Blogging as a Builder: What Actually Got Traffic — Twelve posts, three months, one SPA. The traffic data shows which posts worked, which platforms didn\’t, and the SEO moves that actually drove visits.
• 3 Open-Source Tools That Replaced My Video Editor — HTML in, MP4 out. A 3-tool pipeline — HyperFrames, html-video, glue code — that replaced my video editor. Setup and code inside.
• Indie hacker stack 2026 — every tool I pay for, $47/month total — My full indie stack — hosting, domain, email, payments, analytics, dev tools. Total: $47/month. Here's every tool and why I picked it over alternatives.
• 12 weeks of blogging — what actually drove traffic — 12 weeks, 54 posts, 8k monthly visitors. What worked: SEO + topic clusters + syndication. What didn't: Twitter threads, Reddit big subs, chasing viral spikes.
• Building in public — 90 days, real traffic and revenue data — 90 days of building in public. Traffic 0 to 8k/month. Email list 0 to 1,200. Revenue $0 to $827. Here's what actually worked — and what didn't.
• Best CLI tools 2026 — 25 I install on every machine — 25 CLI tools I install on every new machine — fd, rg, bat, fzf, jq, lazygit, gh, and more. With brew/apt install commands and the workflows I actually use.