Every signup skipped onboarding.
- What
- For about seven weeks, new signups on ProjectLane skipped onboarding.
- Fix
- Found, fixed and shipped on 20 July 2026, and confirmed two days later.
Founder, Blue Fantasy Studio
I design, build, ship and rundeploying production software, alone, using AI as my engineering team.
One person, end to end: design, code, deployment, billing, support, and the fixes. Products live in Nigeria. Clients in the US, the UK, Lithuania and Nigeria. The part most portfolios leave out is below: what broke, and how long it took me to notice.
Open to remote product engineering, forward-deployed and founding roles, and a limited number of client projects. Based in Lagos (UTC+1): a full working day of overlap with the UK, a few hours with US East.
What broke, and how long I took to notice.
Every item here comes from my own project records. The bar is the time a bug lived in production before I caught it. Select a marker to read the postmortem.
2026
ProjectLaneSignups skipped onboarding
ProjectLanePaid plans never expired
Outreach systemDuplicate send, fake emails
ProjectLaneFull-codebase audit
ProjectLaneThree regressions, one day
ProjectLane"Clear your cache" loop
Fantasy MusicSecurity and RLS audit
undetected in production
found
fixed
Not on the axis because I did not record the date: a nightly database backup that had been silently broken since setup, and two bugs in my meeting-minutes app. Both are written up below.
Paid plans never expired.
- What
- Plans did not auto-expire. Two real customers were 12 to 16 days overdue before I caught it.
- Fix
- I emailed both customers on 20 July, shipped a fix that blocks expired plans, and set a real cutoff for 3 August 2026.
The same email twice, and addresses that were not addresses.
- What
- A Windows console encoding crash stopped a batch before the sent flag was saved, so a prospect was emailed twice. Separately, a regex returned the bare ending "co.uk" instead of the full address. Later, a 1am job did not run because the laptop was on battery.
- Fix
- UTF-8 output, saves that retry when OneDrive locks the file, a regex that matches the whole address, task settings that allow battery, and a self-hosted search service when the free API tier ran out.
I audited my own codebase and found about 155 problems.
- What
- A full-codebase audit across the frontend and backend, Critical down to Low, including bugs that masked financial figures.
- Fix
- All of them fixed.
Three regressions, root-caused and fixed the same day.
- What
- An onboarding redirect regression, a wrong brand colour across the whole app, and a storm of 401 errors on mobile.
- Fix
- I traced each one through the Railway logs and the database, fixed and pushed all three the same day.
"Clear your cache" was a stale service worker.
- What
- A recurring "clear your cache" problem kept coming back after releases.
- Fix
- Traced it to a stale service worker, fixed the root cause, and it went live on 3 August 2026.
Security and row-level-security audit before it grew.
- What
- A security and row-level-security audit of the WhatsApp song generator, completed in early September 2026.
The nightly backup had never worked.
- What
- The nightly database backup workflow had been silently broken since setup. Nothing alerted me.
- Fix
- The audit caught it. I fixed it and verified it.
Two bugs in a meeting-minutes app.
- What
- The browser speech API silently does not work inside Electron. Separately, Whisper looped on its own prompt text for one noisy 15-minute chunk.
- Fix
- I replaced it with microphone capture plus Whisper, and retrying that chunk without the prompt fixed the loop.
Systems I run.
Built first for Nigerian users, which means designing for the hard parts from day one: WhatsApp as the interface, payments that actually clear, phones before laptops, and costs a small business can carry.
ProjectLane
Live · flagshipA multi-tenant project execution platform for construction SMEs in Nigeria: projects, tasks, vendors, vendor contracts and payments, a wallet, team roles including Quantity Surveyor and Bill of Quantities, Paystack billing, and an AI assistant inside the app. I also built a white-label version with its own branding and approvals for one client. It began on Base44, and I migrated it to my own stack without losing any user data: 37 businesses, 115 tasks, 86 vendor contracts and 118 vendor payments, with zero downtime.
React · Node + Express · Supabase Postgres · Paystack · Resend · Vercel + Railway
Crisp
LiveA mobile-first order manager for small laundry and dry-cleaning shops: take orders by voice or by hand, track garments from received to collected, notify customers on WhatsApp, record payments, manage staff and branches. Sign in is phone number plus PIN, with no SMS code, because real SMS costs more than a small product can justify yet. Shops pay a monthly subscription through Paystack with a 14-day trial.
React + Vite + TypeScript PWA · Hono API · Supabase
Fantasy Music
LiveA WhatsApp-native AI song generator for Nigeria. Message a number describing a song in English, Pidgin or Yoruba. Claude writes original lyrics, a music engine produces the track, and you get the song and a shareable card back in the chat. First song free, then naira credits through Paystack. The edge is lyric quality in local languages, not the audio model, which is swappable.
Node + TypeScript on Fastify · separate API and worker · Supabase · Claude · WhatsApp Cloud API
Blue Fantasy Minutes
Internal toolAn Electron app that listens to a call, transcribes it with Whisper, and writes structured meeting minutes with Claude, then emails them. A "Series" feature lets recurring meetings remember earlier decisions and open action items. Not sold. It is here for the build story.
Ilé
Concept · demo liveA Nigerian property platform concept built around verified identities and escrow-protected payments: six role-based apps (renter, landlord, buyer, seller, realtor, agent) on one design system, with deliberately no build step. A demo with mock data, not a launched business.
Client work, across four countries.
| EU wholesale e-commerce storeLithuania · name withheld | A Lithuania-registered B2B wholesale company. I audited the live store (16 findings across checkout trust, shipping rules, performance and EU trader identity), fixed the critical ones, and was brought back for more work. Name on request. | Private client · repeat work |
| Aunty Ogay's SnappsUS · Nigeria | US-based luxury photo booth and memory experience brand, operating in the US and Nigeria (Houston, Lagos, Abuja). Next.js site with packages, gallery and bookings. | auntyogayssnapps.com ↗ |
| Brown Roof CityUS · Houston | Full redesign for the Ibadan Descendants Union Houston Chapter, a US community organisation whose members all live in the US. Built on two ideas: a navigation built like a courtyard, and a hero whose light sweeps from night to dusk. Editable by the union without a developer. | iduhouston.org ↗ |
| Elegant Events & UsheringUK · Nigeria | UK-based events staffing company in West Yorkshire, founded by a Nigerian. Operates mostly in the UK and also in Nigeria. Built to win corporate contracts. | eleganteventsandushering.com ↗ |
| Abiola IyiolaUS · Nigeria | Editorial personal site for a senior Ibadan traditional chief and Houston community leader, in a brown clay visual identity. | abiolaiyiola.com ↗ |
| Emmanuel AsekhameNigeria | Personal brand site for a technology and transformation leader. | emmanuelasekhame.com ↗ |
| Mafoya FoundationNigeria | Public site for the Mafoya Oluwa Mbe Foundation. | mafoyaoluwambefoundation.com ↗ |
| Twenty20 Audio Visual ConceptNigeria | A site for a Lagos LED screen and photobooth company, designed from what a screen actually is: light and signal. I built it before they asked. | twenty20av.vercel.app ↗ |
| Ady By Linda ConceptNigeria | A Lagos fashion atelier site with a shoppable collection and a bespoke process. Also built before they asked. | adybylinda.vercel.app ↗ |
"It was an absolute pleasure working with you. You are really, really good. No complaints from my end at all. You really did an amazing job. Thank you."Client, Lithuania-registered e-commerce company, after the most recent project
"This is fantastic work Paul. Looks way better than I expected. Just wow!"Abiola Iyiola · abiolaiyiola.com
"Thank you so much Mr. Paul. You have been really patient with us and surpassed our expectation. Your approach throughout this project has been of a top top professional."Ibadan Descendants Union Houston Chapter · Brown Roof City
"Paul you are so creative. You did a mind blowing job with the direction you took the website. It's so sleek and interactive."Aunty Ogay's Snapps
Where the work comes from. Several of these clients came by referral from earlier ones. Brown Roof City came from the Abiola Iyiola project. Another client came from the Emmanuel Asekhame project. The Lithuania engagement came through an existing client.
Before this, and how I work.
- 2022 to now
- Founder, Blue Fantasy Studio. A digital studio building websites, SaaS products and web apps for clients in the US, the UK, Lithuania and Nigeria.
- 2024 to 2025
- Lead Product Designer, Temlio Communications. Designed Comlio, an omnichannel customer-engagement platform for SMEs: information architecture, UI and the design system. Case study
- 2022 to now
- Founder, Enjoy Games. A gaming-equipment rental business in Lagos.
Design and engineering, one head
I make the product, interface and architecture decisions, so nothing gets lost between a mock-up and a deploy.
AI as the engineering team
Claude Code writes much of the code. I own the direction, the review, and the result in production.
I show the failures
The record above is the point. A builder who finds, fixes and tells you is more useful than one who says it never breaks.
Say hello, plainly.
If you have a role, a product that needs taking to production, or a problem like the ones above, send a message. I reply fastest on WhatsApp.