Manish Ratna Bhusal

I use AI coding tools every day. Claude Code for most of my actual work. I've tried the alternatives - Gemini, Codex, open-source models. I keep coming back. Not because of loyalty. Not because of marketing. Because the alternatives keep failing me in the same specific way. A new model drops. It tops the benchmarks. Developers try it. Developers complain. They go back to Claude. This has happened three or four times now, and the pattern is consistent enough that it deserves an explanation.

Why I Built This Every time I start a new project, the first thing I do is spend days setting up authentication. Login, signup, email verification, password reset, token refresh... it's always the same dance. And honestly? It's exhausting. I got tired of copy-pasting the same auth code from project to project. So I built a proper starter template that I can just clone and go. And since I spent the time making it production-ready, I figured someone else might find it useful too.

Last week, I pointed my domain to a new server. Changed the A record, waited... nothing. The old site kept showing up. I cleared my browser cache. Still nothing. Restarted my computer. Nothing. Three hours later, I learned about DNS propagation and TTL. That rabbit hole led me to actually understand how DNS works. Not just "it translates domains to IPs" - but the whole system. Here's what I learned. At its core, DNS is simple: it translates domain names into IP addresses.