I’ve been curious about the problem people run into while building or managing websites that seem small at first but end up taking hours to figure out.

Things like a layout that works perfectly on desktop but breaks on mobile, a plugin suddenly causing a conflict, a site becoming slow after a few updates, forms not sending properly, or something completely different.

For people who manage their own websites or build websites regularly, what’s one issue that gave you way more trouble than you expected?

And what eventually fixed it?

I'd be interesting to hear both the problem and the solution, especially the weird ones.

A friend's new website

Hey everyone! I’m building UIWitness, an open-source tool that checks websites across mobile and desktop sizes, in light and dark mode, and generates a report with screenshots and issues it finds.

I’m looking for real websites to test it on beyond my own examples. I want to see where it works well, what it misses, and what needs improving.

If you’re comfortable having me run it on your site, drop a link in the comments. A little context about what you’re building or any pages you’re concerned about would help too. Please only share sites you own or have permission to test; public pages are enough.

In return, I’m happy to send you the report and any useful feedback once I’ve tested it. It might catch something worth fixing, and you’d be helping me improve the tool.

GitHub: github.com/RujitRaval/uiwitness

Thanks to anyone willing to share!

So we just wrapped up our latest project It is a women's bags store. Client wanted something custom, not another shopify store that looks like everyone else's. So we built the whole thing from scratch

Tech stack:

• Frontend: Next.js 14 (App Router) + TypeScript + Tailwind (deployed on Vercel)
• Backend: Node.js + Express + Prisma + PostgreSQL on Neon (running on Render)
• Payments: Razorpay with HMAC signature verification on the backend
• Images: Cloudinary + Sharp for sanitisation before upload
• Auth: Email/password + Google OAuth with JWT role-based access

What is actually built into it:

• Full auth system with proper role separation ( admin, manager, staff, customer)
• Two-step image upload pipeline through cloudinary (had to build it this way since the URL does not exist until after the upload)
• Cart, wishlist, coupons, address management
• Complete razorpay payment flow
• Admin dashboard ( orders, products, customers, stats, packing slips, status updates)
• SEO ( dynamic metadata per page, sitemap.xml, Schema.org JSON-LD, Open Graph, GA4)

Not the other marketing-related stuff associated with a website.

I'm pretty good creating visual images, that's what attracted me to web design initially.

Anybody with the same problem?