Chaitanya.lol

Personal portfolio and build log for Krishna Chaitanya — product manager, AI builder, and 0–1 operator.

Live: chaitanya.lol

What is here

• A concise product story and working philosophy
• Selected B2B, B2C, and AI product work
• Shipped side projects with live links
• Long-form notes, including the honest story behind a startup that reached 10,000+ downloads and then shut down
• Optional Last.fm “now playing” activity

Built with

• Next.js 15
• React 19
• Tailwind CSS
• Markdown posts with gray-matter and remark

Run locally

git clone https://github.com/MrForward/Portfolio-site.git
cd Portfolio-site
npm install
cp .env.local.example .env.local
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000.

Last.fm credentials are optional. Without them, the portfolio still runs; only the listening widget is unavailable.

Update content

Most copy and project links live in data/content.js. Blog posts live in posts/ as Markdown with frontmatter:

---
title: "Post title"
date: "2026-01-01"
description: "One-line summary"
---

Project images belong in public/projects/. Add or reorder project objects in data/content.js to change the portfolio grid.

Project structure

components/   Shared UI and layout
data/         Portfolio copy and project data
lib/          Markdown and Last.fm helpers
pages/        Site routes and API route
posts/        Long-form writing
public/       Images, icons, robots, sitemap, and llm.txt
styles/       Global styles

Production

The site is deployed on Vercel. Before publishing content changes, run:

npm run build