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From Code to Creation: How I Built Developer Templates

3 min readApr 18, 2025

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This blog is selling a template, do not click it, if no need 😁

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Under the Hood

Well, you have finally clicked it 😅

Shall we move ahead?

If you have landed here, then give me a few minutes to actually tell a story and finally sell my template 😃

Hello friends,
Welcome to a new journey. I’m Shrey — your friendly dev next door and the face behind ihatereading.in.

Over the last two months, I’ve been neck-deep in code, pixels, and far too many late-night npm installs. While building full-stack templates for myself, I had a thought:

“Why not release a few of these to the world for a basic fee?”

And that’s exactly what this post is about.

Wait… Why Not Free?

I could have put these templates up for free. Part of me wanted to. But then my inner voice said:

“You already gave away too much for free, buddy.

And honestly, these templates save 50+ hours of dev time, so slapping on a small price felt fair.

Also, I love the idea of building something sustainable for myself and useful for others. If that means…

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