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I shipped my portfolio rebuild at nitinmonga.in in early 2026 using Next.js 14 with the App Router. By that point, Next.js 15 had been out for over a year and Next.js 16 was already in beta. Plenty of people in my Twitter feed asked the obvious question: "Why are you still on 14?"

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I get this question more than any other. Friends. New designers in DMs. Founders trying to budget for a website. Even other freelancers who have been doing this for years but are still secretly unsure.

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The founders had a story they could not let go of. Someone they knew had paid for an online course. The course was not what was advertised. They went to leave a review on one of the major platforms. The business disputed it. The platform took the business's side. The review disappeared.

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Nobody teaches you this part. Design school teaches you software. YouTube teaches you skills. Twitter teaches you to build in public. But the actual mechanics of finding clients — the real work of turning your skills into a sustainable income — that is something most designers figure out alone, slowly, and expensively.

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Voxyon came to us with an unusually simple idea and an unusually ambitious vision. They wanted to build a platform where the entire world could answer one question at a time — yes or no — and see the answer plotted onto a live global map. Every country, every continent, lighting up in real time as humanity weighed in.

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Practical articles on web design, Next.js development, Blender 3D production, WordPress and SEO from Nitin Monga's decade of building digital products.