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

Hey Dev Community ๐Ÿ‘‹

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

Between lectures, exams, and the slow dorm Wi-Fi ๐Ÿ˜…, Iโ€™ve always had this desire to build something of my own โ€” something that wasnโ€™t just for practice, but actually useful and out in the world.

For months, Iโ€™ve been studying front-end development in small chunks of time โ€” 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:

โ€œWhy not me?โ€

The only thing stopping me was overthinking:

  • โ€œWhat if itโ€™s not perfect?โ€
  • โ€œWhat if no one buys it?โ€
  • โ€œWhat if I can't finish it?โ€

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:

๐ŸŽ‰ GreenWave โ€” a modern, dark-themed, glassmorphism SaaS landing page


๐Ÿงฑ 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.


๐Ÿš€ The Launch:

I published it on:

It's my first ever digital product โ€” and my goal isnโ€™t to get rich off it.

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


๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Iโ€™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, launchingโ€ฆ and hopefully turning these projects into real income streams someday.

Thanks for reading ๐Ÿ™Œ

And if youโ€™ve ever hesitated to start your first project โ€” 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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