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Thoughts

Essays on product, technology, design, and the occasional tangent. Written slowly, revised often.

Latest March 2026

Blast from the Past - When a Keypad Beat the Smartphone

How two weekend warriors built a ₹1,000 device that solved a problem Silicon Valley hadn't noticed. A dairy farm IoT story from 2012, before IoT was a word anyone used.
February 2026

I Started Prompting. Then I Started Building.

It started with a petty Python script. One project led to another - face recognition on a Dahua camera, then a full personal finance platform. Along the way, ten revelations about what it actually means to build with AI assistance.