The Juggernaut

The Juggernaut

The Juggernaut is a NY-based subscription media company and community for the South Asia-curious.

With thousands of subscribers, The Juggernaut raises $2 million for a South Asian-focused news outlet

As paid newsletters grow in popularity, Snigdha Sur, the founder of South Asian-focused media company The Juggernaut, has no qualms about avoiding the approach entirely. In October 2017, Sur started The Juggernaut as a free newsletter, called InkMango. As she searched for news on the South Asian di...

With thousands of subscribers, The Juggernaut raises $2 million for a South Asian-focused news outlet

At The Juggernaut, I built the company’s web, iOS and Android apps from the ground up using Next.js and Tailwind on web, React, Ionic, and Capacitor on mobile, and Firebase on the backend.

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Challenges include: shipping for web, iOS and Android simultaneously, statically generating content, use of middleware, optimistically fetching new story content, managing stale and invalidated data, push notifications, and handling authenticated and non-authenticated flows and access securely.

iOS and Android screenshots of app
iOS and Android screenshots of app