Hafiz Riaz

Senior Full Stack Developer · Available for Contract Work

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Practical Laravel articles on what I'm building and learning.

Laravel AI SDK Telegram

Laravel Telegram Bot: How I Cleared My YouTube Watch Later with AI Summaries

My Watch Later list was a graveyard. So I built a Telegram bot with Laravel and the AI SDK that summarizes everything I...

Jul 23, 2026 10 min read

Laravel PostgreSQL Database

Laravel PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Native PgBouncer Support Is Here

Laravel 13.17 ships framework-level support for Postgres transaction poolers. Here is how it works and which old hacks y...

Jul 22, 2026 10 min read

Laravel Filament Stripe

Filament Billing: The Missing Stripe Admin Layer for Your Panel

Cashier gives you the Stripe plumbing but nothing in your admin panel. Here is the operator layer I built to fill that g...

Jul 20, 2026 6 min read

Laravel PHP Laravel 13

What's New in Laravel 13.15: Typed Translations and More

Laravel 13.15 shipped typed translation accessors, JSON Schema unions, a Cloud queue driver, and a date_equals security...

Jul 15, 2026 8 min read

Laravel PHP Pennant

Laravel Pennant: The Complete Feature Flags Guide

A practical guide to Laravel Pennant: scopes, rich values, percentage rollouts, and the sticky-storage gotcha that silen...

Jul 13, 2026 13 min read

Laravel PHP Performance

Laravel Octane in 2026: FrankenPHP vs Swoole vs RoadRunner

The 2026 Octane benchmarks contradict each other. Here is why, and a decision framework for picking between FrankenPHP,...

Jul 08, 2026 12 min read

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What I Do

Full-stack web applications built with Laravel and Vue, SaaS platforms, Filament admin panels, and AI agent workflows. Available for contract work, project engagements, or ongoing retainers.

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Featured Projects

Some of the SaaS products and client projects I've built over the years.

StudyLab.app

AI-based quiz and flashcards generator from PDFs

Laravel OpenAI Stripe

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Prompt Optimizer

Free AI-powered prompt enhancement tool for better AI results

Laravel Vue.js OpenAI

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VisaDecoded

Italian immigration glossary with 267 plain-English explanations of visa, residence, and bureaucracy terms

Laravel Tailwind CSS Filament

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printme.money

Money-themed web toys. Watch your salary print cent by cent or your savings melt at Argentina inflation rates. Front page of r/SideProject, 31K views in week one.

JavaScript Vite Cloudflare Pages

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