I Didn’t Have a Developer Website, So I Built One.

For a long time, I published most of my articles on DEV.to.

Not because I had some big strategy behind it.

I simply didn't have a website of my own.

DEV.to was convenient. I could write something, publish it, and put it in front of other developers.

But eventually I started thinking:

What if I had my own place for all of this?

My projects.
My articles.
Things I've built.
Things I've broken.
Things I've learned.

So I decided to build one.

Meet Devlogr 🚀

Devlogr is my personal developer portfolio and blog.

👉 https://www.devlogr.run.place/

The idea is pretty simple:

A place where I can document what I'm building and learning, while also having a home for my projects and developer profile.

The name comes from Dev + Log.

Basically, a log of my journey as a developer.

What does it have?

I wanted it to be more than just a page saying:

"Hi, I'm a developer. Here are my skills."

So I built it around the things I actually want to show.

📝 Articles

This is where I'll be writing about things I build, problems I run into, experiments, lessons learned, and whatever else seems worth documenting.

I'll also be moving some of my older articles here.

🚀 Projects

My projects have their own place instead of being buried somewhere in a GitHub profile.

The goal is to show not just what I built, but eventually more about why I built it and what I learned from it.

🐙 GitHub integration

I also wanted my projects and GitHub activity to connect naturally with the site instead of manually updating everything every time.

So parts of the site use GitHub data to keep things more dynamic.

🔍 SEO

Since this is my own website, I didn't want it to just exist at a URL that nobody can find.

So I also spent time making it properly SEO-ready:

• Dynamic page metadata
• Canonical URLs
• Sitemap
• robots.txt
• Open Graph previews
• X/Twitter cards
• Structured data
• Article metadata
• Semantic HTML
• Image optimization
• Internal linking
• Mobile optimization
• Crawlability and indexability

There is obviously still a lot to learn about SEO, but I wanted to start with a solid foundation.

Why not just keep using DEV.to?

I'm not stopping.

I actually think platforms like DEV.to are great for reaching other developers.

But there's a difference between having an audience somewhere and having a home of your own.

So I'm thinking about it like this:

Devlogr → my home

DEV.to → distribution/community

I'll continue sharing articles on DEV.to, but Devlogr will be the original home for my writing.

That also means I can experiment with the website however I want.

No waiting for someone else's feature.

No worrying about how the platform changes.

It's mine.

Building it was also the point

One of the reasons I wanted to build Devlogr was simply to learn.

There are plenty of things I could have used an existing solution for.

But building it myself meant I had to think about:

• Architecture
• Routing
• Content management
• UI/UX
• SEO
• Performance
• Deployment
• Security
• Integrations
• And all the weird little problems that appear once something is actually running.

And honestly, those problems are probably more valuable than the finished website.

Because every time something breaks, there's something new to learn.

What's next?

Devlogr is definitely not "finished."

I want to keep improving it as I use it.

Some things I'd like to explore:

• Better article discovery
• More project details
• Improved search
• More developer-focused features
• Better analytics
• More integrations
• And probably a bunch of ideas I'll come up with after using it for a while 😅

For now, though, I'm happy to finally have a place of my own.

So... welcome to Devlogr 👋

I started it because I didn't have a developer website.

Now I do.

And from here, I'll be documenting what I build, what I learn, and occasionally what I completely break.

Building. Breaking. Learning. Repeat.

👉 Devlogr: https://www.devlogr.run.place
👉 Github source code: https://github.com/DeveloperPuneet/Devlogr

If you're also building your own little corner of the internet, I'd love to hear about it.

Comments

[RoutineKit]

Love that you shipped the site instead of waiting for “perfect portfolio.”

One trap I hit after launching mine: visitors arrived, then silence — because the page had no single next action. I now keep one boring CTA above the fold (book / email / sample) and treat everything else as supporting evidence.

Curious what you want a stranger to do in the first 10 seconds on yours — that answer usually cleans the homepage faster than another redesign pass.

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Yeah, that’s actually a really good point 😄 For Devlogr, I mainly want a stranger to quickly understand who I am, what I build, and then explore my projects. I’m not really trying to push one specific action like booking or emailing...

[RoutineKit]

That framing is clean — understand then explore is a better success metric than a forced booking click.

One trick that helps strangers without a hard CTA: put a single start-here project above the fold (the one that best shows your taste), and keep everything else one scroll away. Identity first, inventory second.

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Yeah, I get what you mean now 😄 I actually like the “start-here” idea. I think I’ll feature one project above the fold and keep the rest below so it doesn’t feel like I’m just throwing my whole project list at the visitor 😂

[RoutineKit]

One hero above the fold + the rest below is exactly the shape — visitor gets a start-here without feeling dumped. Nice call.

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Exactly 😄 I’m gonna experiment with that structure and see how it feels once I put it together. Appreciate the suggestion!

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥]

Woww Puneet! 😍 Your website portfolio is sooo cool! ✨ The design is really cute, clean, and creative. Loved it! Keep rocking! 🔥

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Awww thank you so much! ✨ I’m so glad you liked it! Your words seriously made my day. ❤️🔥

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥]

Welcome!! ❤️
Aapna aura aise hi increase karte raho!! Good luck for next project 🙂

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Haha thank you again❤️ aura toh badhate rahenge 🗿😎

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐳𝐲 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥]

☠️💀

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

hehe 😎😁

[Liam Martin]

What did you used to build it? Is it AI made? I'm curious 😉

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Nope, it’s not AI-made 😄 The backend was built entirely by me. I first made a pretty basic frontend just to make sure everything was rendering and working properly, and then I used AI to improve/polish the frontend. That’s basically the story 😉

[Liam Martin]

Ah, nice! Smart approach using AI just for the final polish. The whole thing looks really good. Great work! 👏

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Haha thank you Yeah, AI definitely saved me some time with the frontend lol. Glad you liked it 😎

[Harun - solo dev]

Hey i found out devlogr is showing " Too many requests. Access is temporarily blocked. " When i open it 🙌🏻👊🐯👊

[Puneet-Kumar2010]

Ahh damn 😭 my bad bro 🙌🏻 I was busy with some other stuff and completely forgot to keep an eye on Devlogr’s rate limits. Sorry about that 😭🤝

I’ll fix it in the next 2–3 days. My exams are going on rn, so I haven’t been able to work much on projects these days 💀📚

Thanks for catching it tho bro 👊🐯 I’ll get Devlogr back up properly once I get some time.