The Leather Job
One gun, two months, sixty-four districts.
Jack The JelliE-commerce platform, built on contract
2 monthssole engineer, empty repo to live store
Claimed
The Job
Jack The Jelli is a leather goods brand in Dhaka. The job was the whole store: storefront, cart, cash-on-delivery checkout, order tracking, customer accounts and an admin back-office, in a single Next.js 16, TypeScript and MongoDB codebase.
Araf took it from an empty repository to a live store taking nationwide orders in two months, as the only engineer on it.
How it was done
Orders that stay correct under failure
Order placement was designed to stay correct when things go wrong:
| What could go wrong | What stops it |
|---|---|
| The same order arrives twice | Idempotency keys block duplicate orders. |
| A cancellation puts stock back more than once | Guarded atomic decrements restore stock exactly once on cancellation. |
| A product is edited after it was ordered | Snapshotted line items stop later product edits rewriting order history. |
A public checkout, hardened
The checkout is public and unauthenticated. It runs on rate-limited server actions, and delivery is priced on the server, across all 64 districts. Guests can order without an account, and their orders attach to one on email verification.
Nothing paid for before it was needed
Launch infrastructure cost came to effectively zero: Araf persuaded the founders to defer the payment gateway, AI search and third-party APIs until after scale.
The Take
2 months
empty repository to a live store
1 engineer
the whole platform, alone
64 districts
priced on the server
effectively zero
launch infrastructure cost
The stack
Next.js 16, TypeScript, MongoDB