Before you hire me

Five other ways to get this built, and how I compare

I am Ahsan Mahmood, an AI-native full-stack developer in Lahore with 8+ years of hands-on experience. AI agents write most of my code now; I decide what they build, review it and confirm it works. That is one way to get software made. These are the other five, including the jobs where I would send you to them.

The five routes

None of these is the wrong answer. Each one fits some jobs better than I do, and its page says which.

  1. 01

    An agency

    Choose it when the work needs several people at the same hour.

  2. 02

    An inexperienced developer

    Choose it when the job is small and the mistakes are cheap.

  3. 03

    A vibe coder

    Choose it when you want to test an idea on real people this week.

  4. 04

    A freelancer from a large marketplace

    Choose it for a small job with a clear finish.

  5. 05

    Doing it in-house

    Choose it when the software is the business and needs someone every day for years.

How I work now

I can write all of this by hand, and for most of my career I did. I work through AI agents now because they produce code far faster than I can. I decide what gets built and how, I tell them, and I review what comes back. Nothing is finished until I have confirmed it is correct.

What took me a month now takes a day or a week, and I would put the change at 10 to 100 times. That is my own statement from doing the work rather than a measurement, so read it beside the dates here.

Those dates come from each product's commit history and my own project records, and they say nothing about how long your project will take. A date for that comes after a scoping call.

What happened, and when

Rent Party

A property-trading party game you can play online or around one phone.

  1. First commit.

  2. A live site with the design system and the shell, and no game in it yet.

  3. The rules engine and the computer players.

  4. Online rooms, the lobby and invites committed.

  5. Still being fixed and finished, a month on.

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Ahsan Mahmood Portfolio

This site, rebuilt from nothing.

  1. Planning and the first design pages.

  2. First commit of the new app. Its message records five defects the automated checks had passed.

  3. The data platform, 38 tables, and three more defects no automated check had seen.

  4. The rebuild took over this address.

  5. Moved to a new host.

Open Ahsan Mahmood Portfolio

CallVault

An offline-first Android app that records your own calls, with a web dashboard. Deliberately not on Google Play.

  1. First commit. Call capture, browsing and playback were committed the same day.

  2. The web dashboard went up.

  3. The backend went live with its plans and release engineering, nearly three months later. The fast part was the first two days.

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Not sure which route fits?

Tell me what you are building. The first call is free and lasts thirty minutes, and if one of the other routes suits the job better, I will say so on that call.