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Ejaz Hussain on the hill in the rain, the black goat at his side and the herd behind

Ejaz Hussain.

Ten years in. Still self-taught. Still shipping.

Founder and lead developer at Launch Nest Studio. The one behind FormaOS. Adelaide, South Australia.

I run Launch Nest Studio and have for about six years. Almost everything I know I learned by shipping it, watching it break, and fixing it before anyone noticed. FormaOS is the clearest example: a compliance platform with multi-tenant data, billing and access control that I designed, built and still operate for paying customers. Around it sit a shelf of Next.js sites for real estate, fashion, jewellers and a rug shop, all held to the same bar, which is that I'd be happy to be caught using them.

I did not come up through an engineering team. I spent seven years in customer-facing jobs first, including a stretch at Red Energy, which is where I learned that the thing a client asks for is usually two questions away from the thing they need. Before that: IT support, consulting, a CCNA, and enough hardware to know exactly how systems behave when they fall over. Graphic design, video editing and a bit of teaching did the rest.

I don't lead with credentials because you can open the work and judge it yourself. That's the whole pitch. It is also why the goat is black.

What I take on

How a project goes

Discover. Before anything gets designed we pin down what the build has to earn back, who it's for, and what finished looks like. It's the part where scope gets argued, once. Design. In Figma and in the browser at the same time. You get a system of type, motion and components, not a folder of static screens that fall apart on a phone. Build. Production code from the first commit: typed, tested, accessible, quick. The same bar FormaOS is held to, because it's the same person holding it. Launch. Ship, measure, refine. Analytics and search are wired in before launch, so the site keeps earning after I've stopped staring at it.

What I actually use

EngineeringNext.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js, Supabase / Postgres, Stripe billing, Auth / SSO / SCIM, Background jobs.

Interface & motionTailwind CSS, GSAP / ScrollTrigger, Framer Motion, WebGL / Three.js, Design systems, Accessibility (WCAG).

DesignUI / UX design, Brand identity, Figma, Motion design, Graphic design, Art direction.

GrowthTechnical SEO, Core Web Vitals, Programmatic SEO, Answer-engine optimisation, Analytics, Conversion.

If it's on this list, I've shipped with it.

The rest is in the work.

Open the work