Day 0: Why I'm doing this

This is Day 0. The line in the sand.

For 5 years I’ve been building distributed systems for other people. Event-driven architectures, microservices, the works. Good work. Stable paycheck. Zero ownership of what I built.

Meanwhile, my personal GitHub is a graveyard. 7 unfinished repos. A habit tracker that got to 60% and died. A billing tool I abandoned after the Razorpay integration fought back. A “quick” SaaS idea that turned into 3 months of scope creep before I touched a single line of code.

Sound familiar?

Why now

Two things changed.

First, AI coding tools got real. Not “autocomplete on steroids” real — actually useful. I’ve been using Claude Code, Cursor, and v0 for the past few months, and the bottleneck shifted. It’s no longer “can I build this?” It’s “will I actually ship this?”

Second, I’m tired of consuming build-in-public content from SF founders with VC money and no day job. Where are the Indian devs shipping side projects after a 9-hour workday? Where are the Razorpay integration guides that aren’t from 2019? I want to see that content, so I’m going to make it.

Why AI products

Because the window is open right now. Every week there’s a new model, a new API, a new framework. The playbook isn’t written yet. A solo dev with good taste and fast shipping speed can compete with teams 10x their size. That won’t last forever, so I’m not waiting.

Why public

Because I know myself. If I build in private, repo #8 dies like the other 7. Building in public means I can’t quietly walk away. Someone is watching — even if it’s just future me, reading this post and cringing.

Also: the Indian dev ecosystem needs more raw build logs. Not tutorials. Not “I made $10k in my first month” threads. Just: here’s what I built, here’s what broke, here’s the actual numbers.

What to expect

Every week:

• One new AI-powered tool, built and shipped
• A build log covering the real process — what worked, what was painful, what I’d skip
• Actual metrics — users, revenue, the works (even when those numbers are zero)

I’m starting with tools that solve problems I’ve personally hit as an Indian dev. Think: invoice generators that handle GST, payment integrations that work with UPI, SaaS starters that aren’t built exclusively for Stripe.

Let’s go

No grand vision. No 5-year roadmap. Just one tool per week, shipped ugly, documented honestly.

Week 1 starts tomorrow.