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DevLink

A lightweight yet powerful developer profile hub that allows developers to centralize their links, skills, and public presence. DevLink provides an authenticated dashboard for profile management alongside a fast, shareable public profile with built-in analytics and privacy-conscious tracking.

Role: Fullstack
Duration: 3 Months
Team: Solo
Source Code
Published
May 2023
Primary category
Social

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Overview

DevLink is designed to give developers full ownership of their online presence through a clean, performant, and privacy-aware profile platform.

Core Capabilities

  • Centralized profile for links, skills, and bio
  • Public-facing profile optimized for speed and SEO
  • Authenticated dashboard for real-time updates
  • Built-in analytics without client-side tracking scripts

The Challenge

Developers lack a single customizable platform to present their identity, links, and engagement metrics without relying on multiple third-party services.

The Solution

  • 1Implemented server-side redirect tracking
  • 2Adopted App Router architecture for performance
  • 3Layered OAuth on top of credentials auth

Key Features

Authentication and authorization
Profile and link management
Public profile rendering
Server-side analytics

System Architecture

Modular App Router architecture with server actions, protected routes, shared libraries for auth and database access, and server-rendered public pages optimized for performance.

Key Learnings

  • Advanced understanding of Next.js App Router
  • JWT session handling with NextAuth
  • Schema-driven backend design using Prisma

If I rebuilt this today

Future improvements include advanced analytics dashboards, theming support, custom domains, and additional OAuth providers.

Challenges Overcome

  • Designing privacy-first analytics
  • Avoiding client-side tracking scripts
  • Balancing performance with feature richness

Links

Source, demo, and reference links.

Source Code

Technologies

Next.js (App Router)
NextAuth
Prisma + Postgres
Tailwind CSS

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