Side Hustles.

🥗 I was looking at a fancy restaurant menu and realized I couldn’t understand half the dishes. So I built a small AI tool. Just open the camera, point at the menu, and it turns all the fancy names into simple, desi-friendly versions. 🍽️

🏋️ I hacked my bedroom lights to talk to Google Fit. If I haven’t moved in 2 hours, it flashes angry red until I get up. The bulb’s app wouldn’t play nice, so I reverse-engineered it to listen for UDP JSON RGB commands. Now my script yells at me in red when I’ve been lazy. 🚨

🤖 My mom recently joined Instagram and complained that I never like her posts. I don’t even have the app anymore. So, I built a Python bot that auto-likes her posts and leaves comments using AI trained on our WhatsApp messages. 🤷‍♂️

✈️ My desk at work is right next to a window, and I get a clear view of planes flying around HAL Airport. So I built a tool that sends me a little notification whenever one flies by - with flight details and a fun fact. 🤙

🚨 A chrome extension that blocks social media sites (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) until you scream `I'm a loser` into your microphone. The louder you scream, the more time you get to browse 😭

✈️ Boeing's been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. So I built Boeing Flight Detector - a fun tool that flags Boeing flights while you're booking flight tickets. 🤙

📱 I built a simple app to help parents learn apps like WhatsApp and PhonePe through hands-on practice. One morning my mom freaked out thinking I broke her phone — turns out, PhonePe just updated its UI. That trip turned into a crash course, and this app was born. ❤️

📵 An AI tool to filter out cringe content (engagement click-bait, promotional content, and low-value off-topic posts etc) on your LinkedIn feed. It uses AI to analyse LinkedIn posts in real time and hides cringe worthy content. 💀

☀️ After getting cooked on my recent flight, I built this little thing that tells u which side of the plane to sit on to avoid the sun burning ur face off. It checks your route + time and tells you: left or right? ✈️

⏰ A fun alarm app - that won’t stop ringing until you find the right button to snooze. Or You have to either solve captcha or solve a math problem to dismiss the alarm 😵‍💫

🤳 Repurposed my 10y old tablet (Android 4.4.4 KitKat) into a digital photo frame, cycles through photos from a shared Google Photos album, switching up the display every hour supported via custom nginx server. 🤙

👨‍💻 Cric-Code is a fake VS Code, so you can browse live cricket score in your office. It lets me browse Cricbuzz as a VS code editor & makes me look like I am doing actual work 😉

⏳ A linux gnome shell extension which shows how much day/month/year/my life has passed, in menu bar, inspired by the concept of Memento Mori - "remember you must die"

🔏 A tiny command-line tool, I built for myself - written in JavaScript that allows you to edit file directly from Amazon S3 without leaving your cozy terminal.

🖨️ A fun-tiny tool to convert images to ASCII art (an image of characters).

😋 A fun browser extension to prevent you for copying code from stackoverflow. Ouch! I know I've built a monstor :)

✍️ A little personal slice of the internet, for my ramblings, late night thoughts and some learnings. I write about intresting technical topics and challenges that I encounter.

🎯 A cloud based web application, built from scratch to enhance the campus recruitment process, resulted in approx 70% decrease in human efforts by MNIT Placement Cell and students.

🤦 I've been watching the Shark Tank India show. Midnight, around 1 AM, I got this fun idea, to turn Shark Tank memes into a website blocker chrome extension.

👮 Want to trace unwanted personal data leakage in API responses? A friendly tool to trace & protect PII (Personally Identifiable Info) on your website at a single click.

📂 I built a file upload service, from scratch without any external library, no npm, just pure JavaScript 🤖

🧔 A light-weight python3 based virtual assistant utilising speech recognition to make my life a bit easier.

📖 Web is crowdy. So, I built a free platform for people to share their personal resources!

🛠️ A 30x light weight alternative to nodemon to monitor your nodejs applications.

👨‍🎓 A smart, affordable & interactive e-learning platform for kids with a complete school management solution. Scaled the product from 1k users per month to 5k+ users a day!

🔍 A tool, built out of my frustration to automate the lazy work of removing duplicate files from my local system. It hashes the content and check for duplicacy.

📌 An Online Web based real time team collaboration whiteboard with extra features as drawing request, moderators etc.

🏄 Architected, built & scaled the Node.Js backend & devOps for tussle.fit - a Cohort based course platform focused on women health.

🧑‍🏫 Freelance project for a university in USA, a platform for profs to reward students with points based on their performance and students using points in campus to buy anything.

🍭 Question answer platform + Share your Interview experiences with juniors + Live chat room + Get your summarised coding performance + Unique guide to placements as according to your level of coding performance.

🏆 A freelance project, built for the shop owner to manage realtime rewards & coupons for it's customers.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A freelance project, built for a client outside India to manage their employees, company workshops, personal workspace at just one place.

🧭 A freelance project, built for a Kolkata based real-estate client to run his lottery campaign on purchase of flats.

🎀 A freelance project, built for a US based client to accelerate the productivity of his employees.

💎 An Online Quiz system built with Nodejs, AngularJs, MongoDB, ExpressJs and Bootstrap5 with additional feature of User management by admin.

💡 A cloud based platform for NIT Jaipur students, to facilitate Blood Donation Portal + Online Consultation from MNIT Dispensary Doctors at one click.

📎 A Web Platform for hostels, restaurants etc where they can post their donation request of extra food and other NGOs can view all the request and accept according to their need.