Nuxel

The workshop — what I build & build with

SaaS & Stack

The products I'm building, and the stack I build and run them on — from the Next.js front end down to the Talos Kubernetes cluster humming in my homelab.

01

What I'm building

Artifex AI

AI headshot studio — upload a few selfies and get a batch of studio-quality headshots for LinkedIn, socials, and dating profiles.

BuildingAISaaS

Nuxel

This very site — a fast, statically-generated personal blog and review platform built with Next.js.

BuildingNext.jsMDX

More to come

In the workshop

02

The stack

A

Frontend

interface layer

  • Next.js 16
  • React 19
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind v4
  • Motion
  • shadcn / Base UI
B

Backend & data

app server & state

  • Node 22
  • PostgreSQL
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Auth.js
  • BullMQ + Redis
  • Stripe
  • Resend
C

AI & content

generation & media

  • Replicate · Flux.1
  • AWS Rekognition
  • AWS S3 / MinIO
  • Velite + MDX
D

Infra & GitOps

homelab — Kubernetes

  • Talos Linux
  • Kubernetes
  • ArgoCD
  • Traefik
  • cert-manager
  • Gitea + Actions
  • Docker
  • Synology CSI
E

Observability & QA

metrics, logs, tests

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • Tempo
  • Sentry
  • Vitest
  • Playwright
F

Self-hosted

running on the cluster

  • Plausible
  • n8n
  • Nextcloud
  • Vaultwarden
  • Paperless
  • Home Assistant
  • Jellyfin
  • SearXNG