Writing

• Bootstrapped on purpose: building TrackMy Tech without investors
  18 Oct 2026 · TrackMy Tech is bootstrapped. What that means day to day, why it suits a founder who hates spending money, and the honest trade-offs: slower progress, our own money on the line, and hardware that stalls without funding.
• I tried to build my own offline Claude Code
  18 Oct 2026 · I built an offline coding-agent experiment with Electron, React, Ollama and Monaco to poke at one problem: how much a local model can remember. Here's the stack, and the context window wall anyone trying this will hit.
• The 3 a.m. call: why every founder needs an Arun
  18 Oct 2026 · When I'm stuck badly enough, I call Arun, our CTO. He picks up at any hour. Why every founder needs that one person, what the research says about trust in founding teams, and how to make the 3 a.m. call rarer.
• Multi-tenant SaaS, explained with a football academy
  18 Oct 2026 · Multi-tenancy, explained with academies sharing one building and roles that open different rooms. Silo, pool and bridge models, noisy neighbours, data leaks and role-based access, for beginners.
• I built a pager for my own developers
  18 Oct 2026 · An expired SSL certificate took us four hours to find. Later, I built a Pager System for Track My Academy developers. Why small teams need alerting, and what I think a good internal pager should do.
• Shipping Android and iOS solo (iOS: coming soon)
  18 Oct 2026 · I built the Track My Academy Android and iOS apps myself. Android is live. iOS is coming soon. Here is what stands between any solo developer and the two app stores, and why Android first makes sense for an Indian product.
• Python for commerce students, from a former bio kid
  18 Oct 2026 · I was the resource person for a Python for financial analysis workshop for B.Com students. A few years ago I was the non-CS kid in a CS class. Why I think commerce students should learn Python, and a free beginner path from spreadsheet to pandas.
• A coach complained, so I built sports academy management software
  9 Oct 2026 · A coach couldn't tally his fee payments, and the academy owner asked me to build a tiny app. That spreadsheet-powered prototype became Track My Academy, sports academy management software. Here is how a complaint turned into a company.
• Switching from biology to computer science, with zero plan
  9 Oct 2026 · I picked biology in class 12 mostly because of peer pressure. Then I switched to computer science, felt behind, and taught myself to code with freeCodeCamp. The honest version, and what I'd tell anyone switching from biology to computer science.
• Dozens of email accounts: learning AI coding tools as a student
  9 Oct 2026 · Learning AI coding tools as a student, the messy way: we chased free trials before we knew Claude or Codex. What it taught me about picking AI coding assistants, prompting and building.
• Student founder life: exams, the office, and a 1 a.m. gate
  9 Oct 2026 · What being a student founder actually looks like: fast exam answers, late nights at the office, very patient parents, and the few time management habits that keep college and a startup both alive.
• From hackathon loser to hackathon jury: the loop is complete
  9 Oct 2026 · I've lost hackathons, won a couple, organised one, and on 8 and 9 October I sat on a hackathon jury. What judging 20 to 30 teams felt like, the mistakes I recognised, and one fix every hackathon organiser should make.
• How to win a hackathon, according to a tired judge
  9 Oct 2026 · How to win a hackathon, from the other side of the table. I judged 20 to 30 teams in two days. Here's what hackathon judges actually notice, a pitch structure that works, and the mistakes that quietly cost you points.
• Paid internships for students: who pays whom? (I got it backwards)
  9 Oct 2026 · In first year I paid for an internship that was really a training course. A guide to paid internships for students: who should pay whom, internship red flags, a real internship checklist, and why building projects taught me more.
• I said I'd help a friend. Now I build molecular docking software.
  9 Oct 2026 · BioPipeline started as a favour to a senior and friend. Now I lead AI and product on molecular docking software for plant research. What docking is, and why saying yes is dangerous.
• R.I.P. smart ball v1: what smart football sensors taught me
  9 Oct 2026 · A promised deal, a prototype made of maida and boba straws, our first PCB, and over a lakh of our own money. I spent a year putting smart football sensors inside a ball. It never shipped. Here's the eulogy, plus what I learned about hardware prototyping.
• Outsourcing vs building it yourself: our app arrived from 2006
  9 Oct 2026 · Outsourcing app development vs building it yourself: we paid an agency ₹50,000 and the first Track My Academy build came back in PHP, styled like 2006. So I opened VS Code, learned what a product brief is for, and built it myself.
• Production outage lessons: we blamed our code. It was SSL.
  9 Oct 2026 · We split our backend to fix payment errors and production went down for hours. We blamed our code. The culprit was an expired SSL certificate. My production outage lessons: checklists, certificate monitoring, rollbacks and blameless postmortems.
• My developer desk setup: three monitors, one Monster can
  9 Oct 2026 · My developer desk setup, honestly reviewed: three monitors, sticky notes, AI coding tools like Claude Code and Codex, and far too many Monster cans. What helps, what's a joke, and what the research says about screens and sleep.
• Building football tournament software ruined football for me
  9 Oct 2026 · After building Veeran, a piece of football tournament management software, I can't just watch a match anymore. I watch the ball's path, every touch, and how players react. Here's what organising football tournaments looks like from the inside. Send help.