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Tasting and comparing 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one
A dedication to a Mango Affogato that never came to be. I bought a kilo of every variety I could find, dragged a friend to the Mango Festival at Lalbagh, and then ran an actual scored contest across 17 varieties to settle which one is best.
27 August 2024Building a chrome extension to redact words online that trigger Verbophobia
Verbophobia is a fear of specific words, where reading or even thinking about one can bring on nausea or a panic attack. With diabetes you can control your diet. With this you never know when it will hit you. So I built a Chrome extension that redacts those words before you see them.
27 July 2024One spreadsheet for everything personal finance | Financial planner for a lifetime
I grew up in a lower middle class house and I still have a very unhealthy equation with money. When I was making 5 LPA I was sure that 15 LPA would fix it. It didn't. So I built a spreadsheet that answers the only question that actually settles the anxiety: will I have enough.
25 June 2024How to choose the best health insurance plan
One of the luckiest things that happened to me is that nothing big hit before I bought health insurance. Health insurances are not investments, they are risk hedges. This is how I thought about which plan to actually buy, and what I would tell anyone starting out.
11 March 2023My first patent – Design of a unique forceps for Laparoscopic surgeries
In college I designed a laparoscopic forceps that could grip and do suction irrigation in the same device, so a surgeon would not have to swap instruments partway through. The patent came through years later, long after I had graduated and moved on to other things.
15 August 2018Co-Founded BookMyPainting and grew it to 30L+ ARR in college
In November 2016 I co-founded BookMyPainting with my college batchmate Harshit Soni. You send us a picture of someone you love, one of our artists paints them, and we deliver it wherever that person lives. We went from zero to 30 lakhs ARR inside a year, with over 50 artists across five mediums.
15 March 2018