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Ahmed Ashraf
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From College Dorm to Code Launch — How I Built My First SaaS Landing Page Template with Next.js and Tailwind

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Hey Dev Community 👋

I'm Ahmed, an engineering student and a front end developer.

Between lectures, exams, and the slow dorm Wi-Fi 😅, I’ve always had this desire to build something of my own — something that wasn’t just for practice, but actually useful and out in the world.

For months, I’ve been studying front-end development in small chunks of time — usually at night or during weekends.

I learned HTML and CSS, then moved into JavaScript and started playing around with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

The Problem:

I kept watching developers online launching templates and tools, and I thought:

“Why not me?”

The only thing stopping me was overthinking:

  • “What if it’s not perfect?”
  • “What if no one buys it?”
  • “What if I can't finish it?”

But I decided to stop worrying and just build the simplest thing I could that still had value.

The One-Week Challenge:

I challenged myself to finish a clean SaaS landing page template in one week .

The result is:

🎉 GreenWave — a modern, dark-themed, glassmorphism SaaS landing page

🧱 Built With:

  • Next.js 15 (App Router)
  • Tailwind CSS v4
  • Minimal animation
  • Mobile-first responsive design
  • ~1MB final product size

I tried to keep it developer-friendly and visually modern.

🚀 The Launch:

I published it on:

It's my first ever digital product — and my goal isn’t to get rich off it.

It's to start. To finish something. To share it.

🗣️ I’d Really Appreciate Your Feedback:

  • What do you think of the design?
  • Does the structure make sense for other devs?
  • What would you change or improve?
  • Would you use a template like this for your own SaaS/app?

This is just the first step in my journey.

I plan to keep building, learning, launching… and hopefully turning these projects into real income streams someday.

Thanks for reading 🙌

And if you’ve ever hesitated to start your first project — I get it. But honestly, just go for it. Ship it raw and improve it later.

Let me know what you think!

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