The latest articles on DEV Community by Osinachi Nwagboso Samuel (@sianachi). https://dev.to/sianachi https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F1460939%2Fc7e1886c-c069-45eb-a630-25458fe121b6.jpg https://dev.to/sianachi en Osinachi Nwagboso Samuel Wed, 04 Nov 2026 23:00:34 +0000 https://dev.to/sianachi/another-ai-blunder-i-over-engineered-my-side-project-for-millions-of-users-4ob1 https://dev.to/sianachi/another-ai-blunder-i-over-engineered-my-side-project-for-millions-of-users-4ob1 <p>I love programming languages and I love coding so sometimes I get carried away. I'm also interested in productivity tool so I started working on one that allows me manage my notes, projects, calenders, etc. This is necessary context, trust me.</p> <h2> The blunder </h2> <p>My tool has this concept of AI pets that use a couple of tools to do work in the application like: create a list view for my shopping, create a calender view to help me mange birthdays - stuff like that. It also exports data to MD, PDF and DOCX. </p> <p>I was inspired to build this tool and wanted to prepare for millions of users. Empowered by Claude and a divine cause, I slapped in a Queue, Go workers (PS: I am a .Net dev who does typescript and python sometimes), I ended up with this design for a small self host tool: </p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fyiu2w5061o49xt00uvr5.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fyiu2w5061o49xt00uvr5.png" alt="The blunder in its full glory" width="800" height="392"></a></p> <h3> After </h3> <p>The goal of the project was to make a premium product that I could manage. Because I didn't have mastery of Go, I ended up vibe coding that bit of functionality and didn't really understand it in depth even though the syntax was easy to read. I ultimately had to burn through more tokens to convert the workers into languages I understand and ended up with this: </p> <p><a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F87g49nl5j5aa1fbjl5km.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2F87g49nl5j5aa1fbjl5km.png" alt="After I came to my senses" width="800" height="495"></a></p> <p>The result ended up being something much more maintainable and I ended up using less idle memory usage by switching back to .NET! I've learned not to get carried away. At least I made the mistake before getting any users. </p> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Container</th> <th>Before, idle (MiB)</th> <th>After, idle (MiB)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>api</td> <td>217</td> <td>222</td> </tr> <tr> <td>collab service</td> <td>174</td> <td>144</td> </tr> <tr> <td>rabbitmq</td> <td>126</td> <td>removed</td> </tr> <tr> <td>go workers (import, export, plugin, calendar, notify)</td> <td>7 + 6 + 8 + 10 + 9</td> <td>removed</td> </tr> <tr> <td>web app</td> <td>56</td> <td>45</td> </tr> <tr> <td>postgres</td> <td>57</td> <td>57</td> </tr> <tr> <td>versitygw (S3 storage)</td> <td>18</td> <td>18</td> </tr> <tr> <td>zitadel + zitadel-db 9auth)</td> <td>109 + 33</td> <td>103 + 56</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Total</td> <td>830</td> <td>645</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>The next thing to tackle is the UX when writing. This blog was written in said project and the UX needs some work. Thank you for reading this small rant.</p> <p>The project: <a href="https://nixsites.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://nixsites.com/</a></p> <p>The website is written in nixsites. It supports publishing your workspace as a website so I also use it to manage my technical journal and even the main website for nixsites.</p> <p>Have a look at my personal website as well: <a href="https://osinachi.nwagboso.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://osinachi.nwagboso.com</a></p> ai sideprojects dotnet selfhosting