DHEVAN DESAI

COLOPHON · HOW THIS SITE WAS MADE

Designed & built from scratch. No templates.

I designed and coded every pixel of this site myself, no page builder, no purchased theme, no “start from a template.” This page is the machinery, the receipts, and how you can check my work.

THE STACK

What it’s built on

  • Next.js 16App Router · React Server Components · TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS v4a hand-built design system with two full compositions (light & dark)
  • GSAPevery scroll reveal and transition, tuned by hand
  • Verceledge hosting · a fresh deploy on every push to main

No templates. No page builders. No theme I bought and renamed. This is not a site an AI produced from a prompt — every design decision, every line of copy and every architectural call here is mine, argued for and shipped, the same way I built everything else.

THE RECEIPT

Built in the open

This isn’t a number I typed in. It’s the real elapsed time from the first empty commit to right now, read live from the build log.

· BUILD LOG ·

FIRST COMMIT · Jul 14, 2026 · “empty folder, big plans”
BUILT IN 21 hours, 25 minutes

VERSION ARCHIVE

Every version, kept

Nothing here is thrown away. Each line is a real commit, the site growing up in public.

  1. v0.1empty folder, big plansJul 14, 2026
  2. v0.2foundation up — it flips light and darkJul 15, 2026
  3. v0.3the story scrolls — five chapters, liveJul 15, 2026
  4. v0.4it has secrets now — receipts, a terminal, a command paletteJul 15, 2026
  5. v0.5it became a whole site — case studies, an interview, a colophonJul 15, 2026
  6. v1.0launched — live at dhevandesai.comJul 15, 2026
  7. v0.7redesigned — two full compositions, real Houston mapJul 30, 2026

THE MACHINE ROOM

The blueprint, for the curious

A schematic of how this site actually works, drawn by the person who built it. It only powers up in DARK mode, and it’s dark until you shine a light on it.

THE BLUEPRINT ONLY POWERS UP IN DARK MODE.
FLIP THE LIGHT · DARK SWITCH UP TOP TO SEE THE MACHINE.

TIME CAPSULE

A sealed prediction

I wrote down where I think I’ll be by 2030, hashed the note, and sealed it. I can’t quietly change it later: the hash below is the whole proof.

SHA-256 · SEALED

c5b9c0a28ee79847cd746b34ef807fddb504a687ac1f0fa08e03a8255c06f361

◆ SEALED UNTIL MAY 2030

In May 2030 I’ll publish the original note. Anyone can run sha256sumon it and confirm it matches the hash above, no edits possible after the fact. That’s the point.

DON’T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT

Run the test yourself

I built this to be fast and accessible on purpose. You don’t have to trust me: grade it against Google’s own tool once it’s live at the domain.

RUN PAGESPEED ON DHEVANDESAI.COM ↗

One honest caveat: on phones the tool runs a simulated slow-network pass that penalizes the hero image landing later than it really does, so the mobile number reads lower than the site really is. Flip to the desktoptab for the un-simulated score (mid-90s), and on a real phone it still loads in about two seconds, Core Web Vitals all green. I’d rather explain that than hide it.