Younus Fardeen is the Marketing Manager at Masai, where he leads organic growth: search, AI-search visibility, community and the content you read on this hub and the Masai blog.
He writes the guides here the way he would want them as a learner: a short answer first, a path that can be followed in order, real datasets and tools, and a measurable project at the end of every stage.
All guides, project lists and tool lists, grouped.
Spreadsheets, SQL, statistics and one BI tool, in the order employers test.
Discovery, prioritisation, specs, metrics and AI product skills.
Networks, Linux, web security and legal labs, then detection and GRC.
Arrays to dynamic programming in order, with a problem plan.
SEO, analytics, paid, email and AI search visibility, with real campaigns.
Statements, Excel models, markets, payments and regulation.
Customer discovery, MVP, first customers and Startup India basics.
Finance, operations, data-driven decisions and AI for managers.
Churn, fraud, recommenders and RAG, each with data and a metric.
MCP servers, text-to-SQL and agentic RAG, each with an eval set.
SQL, cohorts, A/B tests and dashboards on real datasets.
Teardowns, funnel audits, AI feature specs and experiments.
Home-lab projects from Wireshark to a Wazuh SIEM.
Full-stack apps with auth, tests, real-time features and CI.
21 API and backend builds: auth, queues, webhooks, rate limits.
21 HTML, CSS, JS and React builds with accessibility upgrades.
22 projects across Linux, Docker, CI/CD, Terraform and monitoring.
18 weekend command-line tools and automations.
15 pandas, time-series and scraping projects on real data.
19 small test-first builds to get fluent.
SEO audits, dashboards, email sequences and A/B tests.
Financial models, DCF, scorecards and fintech analyses.
36 ideas across AI, web, security, data and IoT, with viva prep.
36 apps to build with AI, each with a stand-out upgrade.
24 small products to build and test with real users.
32 Python projects for beginners in 2026, from a guessing game to Flask and FastAPI apps, each with a data source and an upgrade, plus tested starter code.
40 AI project ideas for 2026, from a spam classifier to RAG apps, agents and fine-tuning, each with a dataset or API and a stand-out upgrade.
36 unique project ideas for college students in 2026, from campus tools to social impact and hardware, each with a stack, data source and upgrade.
30 design thinking and PBL project ideas for engineering students, with the five stages, what Indian colleges expect, problem sources and a report template.
13 Python projects with source code on GitHub for 2026, each checked for licence and recent commits, with what you learn and a change to make.
18 full-stack projects with source code on GitHub for 2026 (MERN, Django, Next.js, Spring Boot), each checked for licence and recent commits.
15 AI projects with source code on GitHub for 2026: LLM, RAG, agents, vision and ML repos, each checked for licence and recent commits.
A React app with sign-in and a database, live on Cloudflare Pages.
A fast one-page portfolio on free hosting, with a Lighthouse score.
A FastAPI service with docs and tests, hosted on Render's free tier.
A document Q&A chatbot with the free Gemini API and a test set.
A shareable dashboard that refreshes from a Google Sheet.
Measurement for any site: GA4, Tag Manager and Search Console.
A Telegram bot that runs on Cloudflare Workers' free plan.
A synced Android app with sign-in and a shareable APK.
A public demo of your model, hosted free on Streamlit.
Spec, prompt, review and ship an app with Lovable, Bolt or AI Studio.
Move an AI prototype to your own repo, database, domain and alerts.
Spec, plan and small commits with a free coding agent in VS Code.
A template and tests for the rules file many coding agents read.
Context7, Playwright and read-only Supabase MCP with safe settings.
Ollama and Cline on your laptop: no key, no limits, no internet.
Expo, an AI agent and your own phone: build, test and know store costs.
A 12-step security pass for AI-built apps, with real tests.
A calm routine for AI debugging loops: checkpoint, test, reset.
Supabase, Firebase, Neon, Turso and more, with each free plan's catch.
Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify and more: what is still free to host in 2026.
Sign-in, email, payments and alerts for AI-built apps, on free plans.
Lovable, Bolt, v0, Replit, Base44 and more, with the real free limits.
shadcn/ui, daisyUI, HeroUI, icons, fonts and photos with licences.
GitHub, Supabase, Playwright, Context7 and more, with the risks.
AGENTS.md, Spec Kit, Kiro specs and prompting guides for AI coding.
Vite and Next.js starters with Supabase, plus Open SaaS.
Vitest, Playwright, secret scanners, Semgrep and more for AI-written code.
OpenCode, Cline, Aider, Goose, Codex and more, plus what changed in 2026.
Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Cloudflare and Ollama: real limits, and what ended.
Courses, official guides and videos to learn AI-assisted building.
Run, build and test AI projects without paying.
Study from your own notes and find research papers faster.
Frameworks and tools for building and testing AI agents.
Measure, email, schedule and design with no budget.
Check rankings, audit a site and find topics to write about.
Create images free in the cloud or on your own computer.
A zero-cost stack to write, host and deploy code.
SQL engines, notebooks and dashboards you can use for free.
Generate, edit and caption video without a subscription.
Copilot, Antigravity, Cursor, Kiro, Zed and more: what is free in 2026.
Where to practise for interviews, placements and contests.
Where to find clean, licensed data for your projects.
The channels worth following for code, data and AI.
ATS-friendly resume makers that do not charge to download.
Credits and always-free tiers to host real projects.
Notes, tasks and revision tools that cost nothing.
Free certificates from Google, Microsoft, IBM and others.
