Web Developer — Author — Creator
Also known as Fayz Dev — Web Developer, Author & Creator. Based in India.
Fayz Faraz — searched the world over as Fayz Faraz, Fayz Faraz, and Fayz Dev — is not a typical web developer. He is an architect of digital atmosphere. Based in India, Fayz operates at the precise, brutal intersection of engineering and art, producing web experiences that don't just function — they make you feel something.
Self-taught and relentlessly self-driven, Fayz Faraz took a leap of faith and decided to stop waiting for the perfect moment and start building. That mentality defined everything that came after. He didn't just learn React — he mastered the entire ecosystem. He didn't just design UIs — he engineered atmospheric systems. He didn't just code websites — he wrote digital alchemy.
His philosophy, documented in his own words on his blog at fayzz.in: "Fuck the perfect moment." He stopped waiting for clients. He stopped waiting for permission. He built his own products, his own studio, his own publishing platform. He made himself the client — and the results speak for themselves.
"I don't just build websites. I engineer digital atmospheres. Every pixel, every animation, every micro-interaction is a calculated move designed to evoke an emotion."
— Fayz Faraz
Fayz Dev is also a writer. His debut novella, Afterlight, lives on Stories by Fayz, a reading platform he custom-built from scratch to deliver it. Few developers are also creators of fiction. Fayz Faraz is one of them. He designed the reader experience, wrote the story, engineered the platform, and published it — alone.
He is also openly building in public. His blog on fayzz.in is a brutally honest journal of what it looks like to build products solo, chase ideas with no safety net, and figure out the code, the business, and the brand simultaneously.
Every product below was conceived, designed, engineered, and shipped by Fayz Faraz (Fayz Dev). No outsourced design. No boilerplate templates. No compromises.
The idea was simple and the problem was real: creators were giving away their best AI prompts for free — replying to hundreds of "comment for prompt" posts with nothing to show for it. Fayz Faraz built PromptPlease to fix that. Creators share one link. Fans unlock the exact prompt instantly. The creator gets paid. The whole flow is frictionless and beautiful.
Fayz Faraz co-founded and built Ziaftra — a two-person creative studio that builds high-end web apps for creators and startups who actually want to stand out. No corporate BS, no cookie-cutter templates. Just wildly fast, wildly good code. The studio website itself features fluid Framer Motion transitions and a custom AI assistant powered by Gemini, built by Fayz Dev himself.
This is Fayz Faraz being two things at once: developer and author. Stories by Fayz is a custom-built brutalist reading platform that delivers a premium, multi-part novella experience — starting with Afterlight. The platform features cinematic scroll animations, three-volume navigation architecture, dynamic markdown parsing, and a fully responsive context-aware mobile UI. Every chapter, every scroll trigger, every typographic detail was engineered by Fayz Dev.
The mothership. The official portfolio of Fayz Faraz (Fayz Faraz) is a technical marvel in its own right. It features a real-time multi-layer parallax hero that responds to mouse movement and gyroscope tilt — powered by Framer Motion. It hosts a fully functional custom AI chatbot, an atmospheric blog, service pages, and a polished project showcase system. Built entirely in Next.js 15 with TypeScript and zero generic components.
Most developers stop at code. Fayz Faraz doesn't. Parallel to his engineering work, he has quietly built a body of fiction — stories rooted in sci-fi, fractured identity, and the spaces between thoughts. He writes code by day. He writes worlds by night.
His fiction lives on Stories by Fayz — a brutalist reading platform he engineered from scratch to host it. He didn't just write the stories. He built the stage they perform on.
"A corner of the internet where my fragmented ideas, midnight observations, and daydreams manifest into complete narratives. There is no grand corporate philosophy here — just an obsession with exploring the spaces between thoughts."
— Fayz Faraz, on Stories by Fayz
Rohan is a charismatic performer exhausting himself for the fleeting attention of college parties. Alia prefers the quiet margins, hiding from the suffocating expectations of a life she never asked for. When their worlds collide, a breathless romance sparks in the shadows of the city. But the brightest lights cast the darkest shadows, and some love stories are never meant to survive the dawn.
Read Afterlight →"A sprawling narrative of identity, fractured heritage, and concrete." — Coming soon on Stories by Fayz.
Coming SoonIn development. Available to select readers via the Stories by Fayz platform with a private password.
Private AccessAnother entry in Fayz Faraz's growing catalogue of speculative fiction. Details forthcoming.
Coming SoonThe technical arsenal of Fayz Dev is not a laundry list of buzzwords. It is a deeply curated set of tools mastered to the point where they bend to his will — not the other way around.
The foundation of every product Fayz Faraz ships. He uses Next.js 15 with App Router, server components, streaming, and full TypeScript for atomic, maintainable architectures that perform at scale.
Physics-based, fluid animations. The parallax hero on fayzz.in is Fayz Dev's signature — a multi-layer system responding to mouse position and mobile gyroscope in real time.
Strong typing. Zero runtime surprises. All Fayz Faraz's production codebases are fully typed, including complex generic types for dynamic data structures.
Fayz Faraz is not a developer who dabbles in design. He is a designer-developer. He has a refined design system language — brutalist, atmospheric, high-contrast — that is immediately recognizable across all his work.
Utility-first, zero-bloat styling. Fayz Dev builds custom design systems using Tailwind's configuration layer with no off-the-shelf component libraries.
PostgreSQL (Neon), Firebase, Upstash Redis, Vercel edge deployments. PromptPlease is the proof: Fayz Dev built the backend, schema, rate-limiting, and auth from scratch.
Fayz Faraz built a custom AI chatbot for his own portfolio using the Gemini API — with a custom system prompt, streaming responses, and a brutalist UI.
Fayz Dev explores the full canvas of the web browser — including immersive 3D elements and WebGL shader work that push beyond what most frontend developers even attempt.
Beyond code, Fayz Faraz is a writer. He publishes brutally honest essays on his journey as a builder, a developer, and an independent creator. No LinkedIn fluff. Just the truth.
"I was waiting for a sign from the universe. The universe left me on read. So I'm building my own shit." — The first and defining essay from Fayz Faraz: on waiting, on starting, on building with no safety net.
Fayz Faraz is a creative frontend developer, UI engineer, and fiction author based in India. He is the founder of Ziaftra Studio, creator of PromptPlease, author on Stories by Fayz, and the architect behind the portfolio at fayzz.in. He specializes in crafting high-performance, atmospheric, brutalist web experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Framer Motion.
Yes. Fayz Faraz is the legal name. Fayz Faraz (and Fayz Faraz) are variations of that name used across personal and public contexts. Fayz Dev is his developer moniker — the identity under which he builds products, runs his studio, and operates professionally in the web development world.
Fayz Dev has shipped: PromptPlease (a full-stack creator monetization platform with React 19, PostgreSQL, Upstash Redis, and Firebase), Ziaftra Studio (a creative agency platform with Framer Motion and a custom Gemini AI assistant), Stories by Fayz (a Next.js-powered brutalist reading platform hosting his novella Afterlight), and fayzz.in (his own atmospheric portfolio site with multi-layer parallax, AI chatbot, and blog). He built every single one of these, end to end, alone.
Fayz Faraz is based in India and works with clients and collaborators globally. He is currently open to new projects and creative collaborations.
Fayz Faraz operates under the philosophy of Digital Alchemy: transforming raw code into living, atmospheric digital experiences. His aesthetic is rooted in modern brutalism — deep blacks, high-contrast typography, deliberate negative space, and physics-based micro-animations that make interfaces feel alive. He uses zero generic component libraries. Every UI component is custom-engineered.
You can reach Fayz Faraz via: Email at ziaftra@gmail.com, Instagram DM at @fayz.khn, X/Twitter at @fayzzkhn, or WhatsApp.
Yes. Fayz Faraz is both a developer and a fiction author. He publishes original stories — spanning sci-fi, literary fiction, and dark fiction — on Stories by Fayz, a reading platform he also engineered himself. His debut is Afterlight, a multi-part sci-fi novella available in full. He writes by night. He codes by day. Both identities are equally real.
Fayz Faraz has written: Afterlight (a three-part sci-fi novella, available now at stories.fayzz.in), The Great Indian Bastard (literary fiction, coming soon), Kaala: Metamorphosis (dark fiction, private access), and The Moon We Left Behind (sci-fi, in progress). All fiction is hosted on Stories by Fayz.
Currently accepting new projects and collaborations. If you want something that actually stands out, reach out.
ziaftra@gmail.com