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Tasting and comparing 17 different Mango varieties to find the best one
Story behind the idea This project is a dedication to a Mango Affogato that never came to be. Growing up, my parents would bring Mangoes when returning from work and I’d eat one almost daily during summers. Every day, the Mangoes would taste different and I’d wait in excitement to eat them. I guess while…
13 July 2025How to choose the best health insurance plan
One of the luckiest things to happen with me, is that I wasn’t hit with anything big before I made a health insurance purchase. Thankfully, nothing has happened ever since. Why buy health insurance? The idea is simple, we’re hedging against risk. Health insurances are not investments. They’re risk hedges. Imagine if you were a…
13 July 2025One spreadsheet for everything personal finance | Financial planner for a lifetime
Why am I doing this project? I grew up in a lower middle class house. I’ve seen my parents struggle to give us a house to live in, an education and I’ve seen them struggle during the days when Dal prices soared during Congress rule. There are some benefits of growing up this way. I…
13 July 2025My first patent – Design of a unique forceps for Laparoscopic surgeries
In college, I worked on the design, analysis and manufacturing of a Forceps device for Laparoscopic surgery. The forceps was unique because it combined the capability of gripping and doing suction – irrigation into a single device I also got granted a patent for this work recently, years after college ended. The complete repository of…
13 July 2025Building a chrome extension to redact words online that trigger Verbophobia
Why this project: Verbophobia – It’s the fear of specific trigger words. In this condition, hearing, reading or thinking about these words or the mental images associated with these words may cause physical and mental symptoms such as fainting, nausea and panic attacks. Often diseases can be controlled with care. For example, if you have…
13 July 2025Co-Founded BookMyPainting and grew it to 30L+ ARR in college
Introduction In November 2016, I co-founded BookMyPainting with my close friend and then college batchmate, Harshit Soni and scaled it to 30+ Lakhs ARR within a year. This is the story of that journey. The idea was simple: You send us a picture of someone you love, and one of our talented artists will create…
13 July 2025