Writing
Notes from shipping
What I have learned building apps from an empty repo, keeping them alive in production, and working on the web side of things.
The wrong answers are the lesson
Notes from working on Smriti, a study app holding 7,378 UPPSC previous-year questions. The interesting problems were in the data, the sync and the entitlement checks — not the framework.
Building an app from zero and shipping it to the Play Store
I joined kuttl.in as part of the founding team. There was no mobile app. Eighteen months later it was on the Play Store with a release pipeline behind it.
What changes when the app is actually live
Since July 2025 I've owned mobile for RangeNow, an EV-charging app on both stores. Most of what the job actually involves didn't exist in my description of it a year ago.