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System design as a story, in Bengali first, English second. 3,000+ subscribers, 30,000+ visitors, 125,000+ page views, 147 GitHub stars.

What it is

Montu Mia is trying to keep a video site alive. Each chapter is a problem he hits, load balancers, caches, CDNs, the trade-off that didn't fit on the first slide. I publish it as a site and a LinkedIn newsletter. Bengali is the default. English lives under /en. Email goes out through AWS SES. The site list has 1,100+ subscribers. LinkedIn has 2,600+. OG images are generated per chapter. The reading UI is Fumadocs and MDX.

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What it does

• • Chapters in Bengali, with English chapter by chapter
• • Email newsletter through AWS SES and React Email
• • OG image per chapter
• • Dark and light reading UI
• • Untranslated pages fall back to Bengali

What was hard

• • SES plus React Email without turning into a deliverability hobby
• • OG images that still look like the chapter
• • LLM translation that kept Montu's jokes, then a lot of hand edits
• • Making Fumadocs read like a book, not a docs site

What happened

• • 3,000+ subscribers across the site and LinkedIn
• • 1,100+ on the site list, 2,600+ on LinkedIn
• • 30,000+ unique visitors, 125,000+ page views
• • 147 GitHub stars