Independent work

Personal software

Personal software is built around one person’s routines. These are the tools I design and build for mine — from browser utilities to a workspace for notes and meetings.

Why build your own tools?

A small recurring problem can deserve its own software. Start with the idea, build one useful tool, then see what it takes to keep an archive working.

  1. The ideaWhat is personal software?Why it matters, with examples and perspectives from other builders.
  2. The methodBuild your first personal toolA small brief, a clear scope, and checks before you rely on it.
  3. In practiceInside a searchable X bookmark archiveBirdbrain’s capture, storage, search, and cloud AI tradeoffs.
Stone2025 – PresentStone is a free, open-source, local-first note-taking app for Mac. Notes, journals, tasks, and meeting transcripts stay as plain Markdown files on your own disk.BlueprintOctober 2026A 2.5D floor-plan maker for furnishing my flat, with daylight that follows the real sun over Bengaluru.Tabbit2026A personal Chrome new tab with work shortcuts, dev servers, an AI brief, a discovery feed, and native tab organization.Turntable2026A browser-based 3D device mockup studio for turning interface screenshots into polished product imagery.Fitroom2026An AI couple try-on studio that renders two people in chosen outfits as a single true-to-height portrait.Strid2026An on-device redaction engine and native document workflow with first-class support for Indian banking identifiers.Birdbrain2026A private Twitter/X bookmark archive with AI summaries, topic classification, search, and automatic hydration.PaperfolioJanuary 2026A paper-trading and research platform for screening Indian equities and testing portfolio strategies.Garatch2025 – PresentA collection of information-dense Garmin watch faces exploring typography, glanceability, and wearable data.Kaze2025A local code-search CLI for finding relevant files, functions, classes, and methods with natural-language queries.Dotfiles2021 - PresentA terminal-first setup for macOS and Linux — Ghostty, Fish, Neovim, and tmux, with a status line that tracks AI coding agents.