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@Sgattix on Defied · 18 days ago

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Hi everyone!
I’ve been making good progress on Defied lately. Here’s an update on what I’ve been working on:

Backend

Magic-link auth is working, and I’ve added Zitadel as auth provider for a more ecosystem-like architecture. The auth handler now supports both email magic-links and Zitadel OIDC.
Health endpoints: /health, /health/db, /health/auth, and /health/mail endpoints for monitoring
Email verification: SMTP integration with verifyEmailConnection() for magic-link email verification

Frontend

Blog management: Integrated BlockNote and Nextra to build a fully-functional blog
Landing page: Designed and built, showcasing Defied’s services and values
Login page: Updated with modern design and auth flow

I will soon implement syntax highlighting and LaTeX in the blog editor. Stay tuned

Ship #1 Changes requested

@Sgattix on Defied · about 2 months ago

Defied — a full-stack monorepo featuring a Next.js 15 marketing site, NestJS API server, Fumadocs documentation, shared auth (Better Auth + Stripe, that will be later on moved to zitadel), Prisma/MariaDB, and Payload CMS — all wired with Turborepo.

Challenge: Getting Better Auth to work identically across both the Next.js web app and NestJS server without duplicating config, while keeping Prisma types in sync across packages.

Proud of: not using AI, insuring a high quality communication while also maintaining control over app primitives using Defied DART and Defied Prism.

To test:

pnpm install
pnpm dev

Then open http://localhost:2029.

2 devlogs
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Try project → See source code →

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@Sgattix on Defied · about 2 months ago

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Hi guys, I decided to spend these 4 hours doing something that almost no one does these days: reviewing code by hand, zero-AI. I noticed some contradictions, something that didn’t quite reflect Defied’s values and status. So here’s the final, working, bulletproof, but most importantly meaningful version of Defied’s landing page.

I will soon ship it, so wish me luck!

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@Sgattix on Defied · 2 months ago

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Hi guys, I’ve been quite busy lately with my life outside Stardance. However I still managed to put some effort on a new project: Defied.
Defied is a software company that builds advanced digital products, combining software engineering, AI and design to create reliable, elegant and accessible tools.
Here’s what I did so far:

Backend

Built basic magic-link auth that will be later moved to a Zitadel-based auth for a more ecosystem-like architecture

Frontend

Designed and built landing page
Designed and built login page

Just as a quick note, this is Defied’s landing page and service wrapper, not a service. For Defied services, check out Defied Prism (Which I will later post here, as a multi-framework, css modules and tailwindcss component library).