Sripad

what did you make?

my personal portfolio site. it’s where i show what i’m working on and what i’ve shipped. homepage has my main projects, and each one clicks into its own page with the full story. 8 projects total, from startups to school projects to random experiments.

what was challenging?

the contact form was the biggest one. wanted people to email me straight from the site with no popup or anything, so i had to build a real backend for it plus spam protection so nobody can send more than 3 messages a day, checked both on the browser and on the server so it can’t be bypassed.

also almost shipped the site with 18 known security vulnerabilities because i just never thought to check. did a full audit and fixed all of them, ended at zero.

what are you proud of?

that every stat on the site is real. first draft i let ai guess at my project achievements and it was embarrassing, generic buzzword soup. rewrote every single project with actual numbers instead. nothing on the site is made up.

what should people know to test it?

click into any project card, not just the homepage. the case studies are where the actual work is
try the contact form, it really sends to my inbox
if you spam it more than 3 times it’ll tell you to stop, that’s intentional not a bug