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Pior Labs
A private, self-hosted household platform with shared authentication, design, data, networking, and deployment infrastructure for independently deployed productivity tools.
export const developer
Piotr
Szaran
} // ai-native full stack developer
frontend
backend
platformInfrastructure
currentlyLearning
Go
Building small services and platform tooling while learning idiomatic Go.
Rust
Exploring systems programming and strongly typed backend development.
Data Structures & Algorithms
Practicing common interview patterns such as two pointers, sliding windows, binary search, linked lists, BFS, and DFS.
experience
2+ Years of Experience
education
Honors Bachelor of Science
University of Toronto, 2023
University of Toronto, 2023
location
Toronto
const featuredProjects
// 4 featured, 17 total17
Pior Labs Cookbook
A self-hosted household recipe manager with serving scaling, meal planning, grocery lists, AI recipe import, and MCP access, built quickly on top of the Pior Labs platform.
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OptiPlex Home Server
Converting a decade-old Dell OptiPlex into a headless home server for self-hosting on hardware I already owned.
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Personal Wedding Website
I built my wedding website as both a personal project and a serious test of agentic coding. Designed for around 200 guests, it included custom RSVP flows, an admin dashboard, guest management tools, and a strong focus on mobile performance and reliability.
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const blogPosts
// 14 items 7 min read
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Putting Pior Labs to Work
→Pior Labs Cookbook is a self-hosted household recipe manager with serving scaling, AI-assisted meal planning, generated grocery lists, and AI recipe import, built on top of the Pior Labs platform.
#typescript
#react
#hono
#postgresql
#drizzle
#openai
#mcp
#ai
#agentic-coding
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Upgrades, People, Upgrades
→Moving my Raspberry Pi media stack to a Marketplace OptiPlex with a 1 TB SSD and 32 GB of RAM, then adding photos, a dashboard, and consistent service URLs.
#docker
#self-hosting
#homelab
#immich
#tailscale
5 min read
7 min read
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When One App Became a Platform
→Pior Labs is the private, self-hosted platform that grew around my household productivity tools. This is the story of how one finance tracker led to shared authentication, a design system, and a complete deployment foundation.
#self-hosting
#docker
#caddy
#postgresql
#oauth
#infrastructure
#llm
7 min read
7 min read
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Keeping Things In Check
→FinLens is a deployed, self-hosted personal finance tracker I built as a better alternative to managing household finances in Excel. This post covers the decisions and infrastructure changes that turned it into part of my wider Pior Labs platform.
#react
#typescript
#postgres
#oauth
#mcp
#self-hosting
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Why I Rebuilt My Portfolio (Again)
→Payload CMS was overkill. Here's why I went with Astro and files in a repo.
#astro
#mdx
#portfolio
#cms
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