How I’m Building Personal Apps With AI, Next.js, SQLite, and Tailscale

For years, building custom software felt like something reserved for startups, funded teams, or companies with dedicated infrastructure. That’s changing fast. Today, you can build fully custom personal apps for yourself, your family, or a small team in an afternoon using AI. You don’t need cloud infrastructure. You don’t need Kubernetes. You don’t even need to deploy anything publicly. You can run modern web apps entirely on your own machine or on a small dedicated computer in your house, secure