Built because I wanted them to exist.

A collection of experiments — problems I ran into myself, vibe-coded with AI, shipped early, and improved in public. No one assigned any of it.

Released 150+ users My first shipped web app

Finance Tracker

The money tracker I wished existed.

Nothing on the market worked for me — and nothing worked for my best friend either, an MBBS student with a completely different routine and completely different needs. So I designed and built one that fits both our lives: budgets and targets at a glance, and logging an expense is as easy as saying it out loud.

It quietly grew to 150+ users — proof that if a problem annoys two very different people, it probably annoys a lot more.

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Building Prototype For the little ones 🍼

Spoonful

A feeding companion, from first feeds to family dinners.

Every parent has the same questions — what do I feed them, when, and is this even safe? Spoonful answers them in one place: meal guidance, recipes, and the research behind them, all mapped to a child's stage, from the very first spoonful to sitting down for family dinner.

It pulls real answers from pediatric research so parents don't have to dig through journals — just tap and know. It's in an early prototype phase, and it's the build closest to my heart: guiding little ones is exactly the space I love.

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Beta Launched

Try Music Taste

Skip the small talk

A card experience that starts with the music you love and ends the small talk. Reveal a card, answer the prompt behind it, and land in conversations that actually go somewhere. It began with music — it's growing into a mission for deeper conversations.

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Released

Connections to Create

Events shouldn't end at the door

At any event, the best conversations are the ones you never got to have — even though you probably share interests with half the room. Connections to Create keeps an online room open for 48 hours after the event so people can find each other before the moment passes. Then it closes, just like the event itself.

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On Hold

CrossPlayy

Move your music. Keep your vibe.

Switching streaming platforms shouldn't mean losing years of playlists — or the music files sitting on your device. CrossPlayy is my concept for a one-click way to carry your whole library, wherever it lives, into whichever app you actually listen on. The concept is live; the build is on hold.

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🎥 Ongoing

Content Creation

Business & tech, on Instagram

I also make videos — turning what I learn about business, tech, and building things into content worth sharing. New videos go up on Instagram, and the longer thoughts land on Substack.

Instagram ↗ Substack ↗

The Startup Chapter

Screen-free play for kids.

For most of 2025 — alongside my full-time role at HPE — I built a startup around one belief: kids deserve play that doesn't need a screen.

A toddler playing with smart story blocks

A toddler playing on a responsive play mat with picture cards

Jan — Aug 2025 · Founder Wrapped up

Independent play, no screens attached

I interviewed close to 75 parents to understand how play actually happens at home, and turned what I learned into two product concepts — a responsive play mat and a set of smart story blocks. I took both through conversations with manufacturers and all the way to the prototyping stage, working with a co-founder I met through Y Combinator's co-founder matching — all while holding down my day job at HPE.

I wound the venture down in August 2025. What stays: everything it taught me about parents, products, and taking a hardware idea from interviews to prototype — and a genuine love for building for children.

0 parent interviews
2 product concepts
YC co-founder match
Prototype stage reached

Contact

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