About

A solo-built AI tech lab

NexaLab.app is a space where one person handles planning, development, and operations β€” building AI applications and documenting the process.

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Kim Ho-gyun

Senior Software Engineer / PM

β€œBuilding AI-powered apps and designing their architecture”

πŸ§ͺ What do I do here?

I ship real, deployed AI app ideas (AI Apps) and turn them into sustainable businesses (Biz).

βš™οΈ Tech I mainly use

Next.jsTypeScriptSupabaseVercelOllama / LLMspring bootMyBatisPostgreSQLRedisDockerNginx

Why I started this blog

I used to feel lost about how to actually put AI to work β€” plenty of talks and articles out there, but very few honest accounts of building a real service from idea to deployment. So I decided to pick up my own ideas and handle the planning, development, and deployment myself, recording the trial and error along the way as it happened. I believe the decisions and dead ends behind a project are often more useful than the finished result. NexaLab is where that record keeps growing.

Why are the tools all free?

The quote generator, profit calculator, and SEO/GEO checker are all free. Honestly, they also bring in visitors that blog posts alone struggle to reach. I didn't build them carelessly, though β€” I use them myself, and nothing you enter has ever been saved on the server. It's a balance between ad revenue and visitor trust.

What do I cover?

AI Apps

The build log behind shipping an idea into a real product β€” prompt design, architecture decisions, and troubleshooting along the way.

Biz

What AI can actually turn into a business β€” monetization ideas and market observations.

Free Tools

Ready-to-use utilities like the AI quote generator and profit calculator, free to use.

Who this is for

If you're a developer, marketer, solo founder, freelancer, or product manager trying to figure out how AI tools actually fit into your day-to-day work, this is written for you. Every post walks through a real decision or trade-off, not just a finished feature β€” the kind of detail I wished I could find when I was starting out myself.

  • Developers
  • Marketers
  • Solo founders Β· Freelancers
  • PMs Β· Planners

How does the content get made?

Blog posts start as an AI-drafted outline that I then review and edit myself. I lean on AI for brainstorming, research, and first drafts, but I always test things against a real, working service before publishing. The four free tools get the same treatment, with new posts landing roughly once or twice a week.

Get in touch

Feel free to reach out for collaboration, advice, or just to talk.

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