From Code Snippets to Scalable Products: Why I Founded Pixery

Pixery.ro - Mobile and Web Development Studio

For years, I’ve used dragosholban.com to document my journey as a software developer—writing about Flutter development, backend architecture, performance optimizations, and building real-world applications. This blog started as a place for experiments, tutorials, and lessons learned the hard way.

Over time, something became clear: while tutorials and code snippets are useful, they only cover a fraction of what it takes to build a successful digital product.

As projects grew more complex, the gap between “it works on my machine” and “this can scale in production” became impossible to ignore. That gap is exactly why I founded Pixery.

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How I Built AmCitit.ro: My First Full Project with Next.js, Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, and Vercel

I’ve always wanted to build something that blends technology with a bit of social impact. AmCitit.ro (which means “I’ve read” in Romanian) started from a simple idea — a platform where Romanian readers can list the books they’ve read and make them available for local borrowing.

It’s a small step toward promoting reading and sharing in a country where books are often treated as personal treasures rather than something to circulate in the community.

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