N°01 — The FounderGaurav MishraPortfolio · MMXXVI
GM
FIG.01
MMXXVI
Gaurav · Mishra
· live
By the founder — in residence

The quietarchitectureof ambitious brands.

Founder of ZUPIX & The Connectify. I compose digital products the way a studio composes a magazine — with restraint, rhythm and an obsession for the last five percent.

· 42 products shipped· 8 years building· 12M people reached
Scroll
N°02 — The Founder's Note

Beyond building websites,building digital businesses.

I don't ship pages. I ship systems that earn — products designed around the business problem underneath the brief, not the buzzword on top of it.

Every engagement is treated as a long-horizon product: modern interfaces, disciplined engineering, and automation that removes the friction a founder shouldn't be doing by hand at 11 pm.

The output looks like a beautiful digital product. The outcome is a business that compounds — quietly, month over month.

Operating principles· 04

How the studio thinks.

A short list. Applied to every product, every quarter.

  • Product Thinking
    Ship the intent, not the spec.
    01
  • Business Automation
    Ops that scale without headcount.
    02
  • User Experience
    Calm interfaces, confident users.
    03
  • Scalable Architecture
    Systems built to compound.
    04
N°03 — Philosophy

Six rules that shape every product.

Not slogans. Working principles I return to whenever the brief gets noisy or the deadline gets loud.

01

Design with purpose

Every pixel serves the business goal underneath. Aesthetic is the by-product of clarity — never the target itself.

02

Technology that scales

Modern stack, boring dependencies, disciplined boundaries. What ships on Monday still holds up in Year 3.

03

Business first

P&L before pixels. Every feature earns its keep.

04

Innovation over trends

Trends age in months. Sound ideas compound for years. I pick the second one, every time.

05

Speed with quality

Ship weekly. Refactor ruthlessly. Never both at once.

06

Long-term partnerships

Most of my work is with clients I've built with for years. Great products need more than one release cycle.

N°04 — Practice

Ten disciplines, one operating system.

Cross-trained across product, engineering and operations — so the seams between disciplines disappear.

N°05 — Chronology

The founder's chronology.

A decade of compounding decisions — condensed into five inflection points. Scroll horizontally to walk the line.

  1. 2017Ch. 01

    Foundation

    First code shipped for a paying client. The habit of building in public begins.

  2. 2019Ch. 02

    Building Products

    Moved from freelance projects to owned digital products with real users.

  3. 2021Ch. 03

    Serving Businesses

    Founded ZUPIX — a studio delivering premium web & product work to modern brands.

  4. 2024Ch. 04

    Expanding Solutions

    Launched The Connectify — automation, CRMs and internal tools for growing teams.

  5. NextCh. 05

    Future Vision

    An operating layer that lets founders run entire digital businesses from a single console.

← Drag / scroll →
N°06 — Territory

Building digital experiences across multiple markets.

Four countries. A dozen industries. One studio operating with the same craft standard across every timezone.

South Asia · 20.5°N · 78.9°E

India

IND
Industries served
  • Healthcare
  • Education
  • Retail
  • Real Estate
  • Restaurant
  • Professional Services
Middle East · 23.4°N · 53.8°E

United Arab Emirates

UAE
Industries served
  • Hospitality
  • Real Estate
  • Finance
  • Travel
  • Corporate
  • Construction
Middle East · 21.5°N · 55.9°E

Oman

OMN
Industries served
  • Construction
  • Manufacturing
  • Hospitality
  • Retail
  • Corporate
North America · 37.1°N · 95.7°W

United States

USA
Industries served
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Corporate
  • Education
  • E-Commerce
  • Professional Services
N°07 — Selected Work

Case studies, not a portfolio wall.

Business goal in, measurable outcome out. Client names are held in confidence — the shape of the work isn't.

Professional ServicesInternal ops platform
Shipped

Business Automation Platform

Business goal

Cut manual data entry across three teams and unify the source of truth.

Result

≈ 60% reduction in weekly ops hours; single dashboard adopted org-wide.

ReactTanStackNode.jsPostgreSQLREST APICase detail
Real EstateSales & pipeline CRM
Shipped

CRM Solution

Business goal

Give brokers a lead lifecycle they'd actually open every morning.

Result

3× faster follow-up cadence; pipeline visibility from lead to close.

Next.jsSupabaseTypeScriptTailwindCase detail
RetailMulti-branch inventory
Shipped

ERP Dashboard

Business goal

Consolidate five branches into one live inventory & finance view.

Result

Real-time stock accuracy up from 74% to 98% within one quarter.

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLCloudflareCase detail
HealthcarePatient booking & records
Shipped

Healthcare Portal

Business goal

Replace paper intake with a secure, mobile-first patient portal.

Result

Booking friction removed; front desk load down by roughly a third.

ReactSupabaseAuthenticationTailwindCase detail
RestaurantQR dine-in + takeaway
Shipped

Restaurant Ordering System

Business goal

One ordering surface for dine-in, takeaway and delivery.

Result

Average table turn improved; kitchen queue visualised in real time.

Next.jsFirebasePayment SystemsTypeScriptCase detail
EducationCohort-based LMS
In Progress

Education Platform

Business goal

Ship a lightweight LMS designed for live cohorts, not on-demand libraries.

Result

Instructor tooling launched; onboarding time down to a single session.

ReactSupabaseTypeScriptCloud StorageCase detail
RetailHeadless storefront
Shipped

E-Commerce Platform

Business goal

Move a legacy Shopify theme to a headless, performance-first storefront.

Result

LCP improved from 4.1s to 1.4s; conversion up quarter-over-quarter.

Next.jsTypeScriptCloudflarePayment SystemsCase detail
Real EstateListings + agent workspace
Shipped

Real Estate Portal

Business goal

Public listings site paired with a private agent workspace.

Result

Lead capture unified; listing publish flow reduced to a single form.

ReactNode.jsPostgreSQLAI IntegrationCase detail
N°08 — Toolkit

The technology ecosystem behind every ship.

Hover a discipline to open the drawer. Chips animate individually — the same order they enter a real project.

ReactNext.jsTanStack StartTypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer Motion
N°09 — The Case

Why businesses work with me.

Nine reasons — the same nine that keep partnerships running past launch day, into year two, three and beyond.

01

Business understanding

I read a P&L before I open Figma. The brief is a symptom — the strategy conversation happens first.

02

Clean architecture

Boundaries you can defend a year later, not just at launch.

03

Future-ready systems

Edge, serverless, typesafe end-to-end.

04

Fast execution

Weekly shipping cadence held over years, not sprints.

05

Scalable products

Built for 10× the current load without becoming a rewrite the moment traction arrives.

06

UI excellence

Interfaces held to editorial standards, not template ones.

07

Long-term support

Most partnerships run in years, not deliverables.

08

Security first

Auth, roles, RLS and rate limits designed in — not bolted on the week before launch.

09

Innovation driven

New capability adopted when it earns its complexity budget.

N°10 — Impact

The numbers behind the work.

Conservative counts. Every figure is either shipped, invoiced or on the calendar — never rounded up for effect.

01
0+
Projects delivered
02
0+
Industries served
03
0
Countries worked
04
0+
Digital products built
05
0+
Business consultations
06
0+
Years of experience
N°11 — The Conversation

Let's build something extraordinary together.

Every product that shipped from this studio began the same way — one honest conversation. Pick the shape that fits, tell me a little, and we'll take it from there.

Booking panel· 5 min to complete

Tell me about the work.

Short is fine — I'll follow up within one working day to confirm a time.

·
·
Optional
·
Chosen at left
Strategy Call45 min
·
20 – 1200 chars
·
Replies within 1 working day.
Fin.

Great products begin withgreat conversations.

If you're building something ambitious — a product, a platform, or the digital backbone of a company — the next step is a short, honest conversation. No pitch. Just the work.