2025Full-stack systems exercise

TotallyNotInsta

Full-stack social app

Instagram-style app with posts, likes, comments, follows, and feeds. 6+ MongoDB collections, Dockerized, running 24/7 on free-tier hosting.

Role

Data modeling, backend, deployment, operations

Stack

Laravel · PHP · MongoDB · Docker

Outcome

Live with 24/7 uptime on free-tier hosting. Open source.

Project brief

A full-stack Instagram-style app with real-time interactions across 6+ data models. Dockerized with zero-downtime releases.

Full-stack deliveryDeploymentReal-time interactions

Full-stack social media app — posts, likes, comments, follows, feeds — with real-time interactions across 6+ MongoDB collections.

Docker containers, CI/CD pipeline, zero-downtime releases on Render's free tier, 24/7 uptime via Uptime Robot health checks.

Laravel backend, MongoDB data layer, full deployment pipeline.

Approach

End-to-end ownership. Data modeling in MongoDB, Laravel backend, deployment pipeline — all hand-built.

Live with 24/7 uptime on free-tier hosting. Open source.

3,300+ Indian and global foods in one searchable database. Includes a calorie tracker and Nutri-Score grading. Play Store and B2B API coming soon.

Static collection of calculators and converters. No framework, no accounts, no ads. Built with Eleventy, builds in under a second.