Zeid
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I'm Zeid, startup veteran and full-stack software engineer who enjoys building tech products and the businesses around them.
- •AI, Engineering
Harnessing AI To Build Applications That Can Reason: ZeidBot and LangChain
How I built ZeidBot - a RAG chatbot using Vector DBs, LLMs, embedders and LangChain. Using tools within the AI-stack and building reasoning applications with precision and control.
- •AI, Engineering
A Primer on Running AI Models on Your Own Computer
Step-by-step walkthrough showing how to harness the power of AI locally. Learn to run language models on your own computer, opening up new possibilities for privacy-focused and tailored AI applications.
- •AI
Agents and RAG: AI is growing up and getting a job
A walkthrough of AI fundamentals which helps contextualise the current excitement around on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic AI Applications.
- •Startups, Engineering
Rapidly validate MVPs by minimising undifferentiated work
The most important thing when your a startup is to get your MVP validated as quickly as possible. Use off the shelf products to build the undifferentiated features of your product and focus your resources on what makes you unique
- •Startups
Beyond the idea: the admin involved in starting and growing your business
A comprehensive guide to startup administration, covering essential aspects from company formation to fundraising. Learn about equity management, legal requirements, and investor relations in this detailed overview for founders and startup employees.
- •Startups
Experience is everything: Mistakes of a non-technical founder of a tech business
Lessons from a first tech startup: mistakes in engineering, design, and marketplace development from an inexperienced founder's journey with Hawkker.
- •Engineering
What's a tech stack? What stack do I use?
Web applications combine layers—like frontend (HTML, CSS, JS), backend (Node, Python), databases, and infrastructure—which are "stacked" to form a web application.
- •Design, Engineering
Developers, It's worth learning CSS properly
As a frontend engineer learning CSS properly will save you time and your sanity in the long run irrespective of which styling approach you use.