Review My Hostel

Problem

Could agent-assisted development carry a product all the way to production — auth, data model, review flows, deployment — rather than stopping at a demo? This build was the test, with a live site as the pass condition.

What I built

• An end-to-end review platform: browsing, submission and moderation flows.
• Auth and data model on a managed Postgres backend.
• Deployed and live in production.

Technical decisions & trade-offs

• A managed backend for auth and data, to keep the moving-parts count low while the workflow itself was the experiment.
• Agents as the primary development engine, with human architecture and review as the quality gate.
• Scope held deliberately tight — a complete small product beats an incomplete big one.

Outcome

Live in production. It showed that agent-assisted development reaches production quality when paired with real engineering judgment — a practice since carried into team workflows.