A studio of one,
building the web for ambitious teams.
I'm Achour, a full-stack engineer designing and shipping modern web products. From first sketch to production deploy, with clean code, thoughtful UX, and zero handoffs.
Four ways I help teams ship.
Engagements scoped from a single sprint to a full quarter. Every engagement starts with a 30 minute discovery call.
Web applications
Type-safe full-stack apps with React, Next.js, or Astro. Authentication, billing, dashboards, and the unglamorous infrastructure that makes them feel solid.
APIs & integrations
REST and tRPC services, third-party integrations, and the data layer that ties everything together. Designed for the people who have to maintain them later.
Performance audits
Slow page? Slow build? Slow database? I find the bottleneck, fix what matters, and leave a write-up of what changed and why.
MVPs for founders
From a wireframe and a Stripe key to a real product in 4 to 8 weeks. One contact, one invoice, one ship date.
Things I've shipped lately.
Nestphones
A modern phone specs database and shopping guide with a polished UI/UX, AI-powered recommendations, and a strong focus on the Algerian market.
Motify
An interactive, open-source CSS background pattern generator. Pick a preset, tweak it live, and export clean CSS or JSX code.
Next.js + Better Auth + Prisma Starter Kit
A powerful starter kit with authentication and dashboard built using Next.js 16, Better Auth, Prisma, and shadcn/ui.
A predictable path from idea to production.
No magic, no consultancy-speak. Four phases. You always know what week we're in and what gets done next.
Understand the problem
A 30-min call. We talk shape, constraints, and what success actually looks like. You leave with a scoped proposal, not a sales pitch.
Plan the smallest valuable thing
Architecture sketch, key flows, the tech that fits (not the tech that's trending). Approved before a single line of code.
Ship in tight, reviewable slices
Weekly demos against a real environment. You see progress, not promises. Tests where they earn their keep.
Hand over, then stay close
Production deploy, observability wired in, a written handover. Two weeks of post-launch support are always included.
What I'm using, building, and chasing.
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The tools I reach for daily.
Boring tech, used carefully. New tools earn their spot the hard way.
Notes from the workshop.
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Achour Meguenni
A developer who ships,
documents, and stays close.
I'm Achour Meguenni, a full-stack engineer based in Algiers (GMT+1). For the last six years I've helped startups and small teams turn rough briefs into production-ready software, usually in TypeScript, often on Next.js, TanStack Start, or Astro, always with a bias for shipping over speculating.
I work in tight one-week sprints, demo against a real environment, and write things down so the next person to open the codebase (often future me) doesn't have to guess. No handoffs, no surprise invoices, no consultancy speak.