DJ's lore
- Cheapest voice to voice API (2c/min)
- Synthetic data generator for LLMs
- AI Copilot for PCB design
- Semantic search engine for videos
- SDK for passkey-based biometric login using WebAuthn. No passwords, no OTPs — just your face or fingerprint as the auth layer.
- A query language to score and segment web3 wallets based on on-chain behavior. Think SQL, but for wallet reputation.
- Split payment protocol on Solana. Split bills, subscriptions, or any transaction across multiple wallets trustlessly.
- End-to-end encrypted messaging stored on-chain. No server, no middleman — messages live on the blockchain and only the recipient can read them.
I dropped out. Moved to Chiang Mai, a fraction of the cost, and started living off savings.
No safety net. I pay the price of that bet on myself every single month.
Got very good at the grind of shipping a V1, talking to users, and iterating fast.
I was finally in the US. I took frequent flights to California, watching how companies are actually built from the inside.
But college started feeling like a micromarket. My ability to make decisions freely, to pour hours into things that mattered, was being actively limited by the safety net I had worked so hard to get into.
The ceiling was the net itself. And while I did participate in many hackathons and college clubs through 2022–2024, it wasn't getting me closer to building a company.
I needed to get to the US. For someone from Jodhpur, a US university was the only way in.
I worked at two more Silicon Valley startups through high school. Not just writing code, but deep in product, user research, go-to-market. I self-financed my entire college through that work.
I had never visited the capital of my own country. My parents found out just four months before I left.
Building and posting online got me noticed. I got introduced to blockchain and it felt like an asymmetric bet on rebuilding systems that had been in place long before I was born: the financial system, how commerce works, the plumbing underneath everything.
I built a decentralized version of Gumroad and a lending and borrowing protocol that got a grant from Polygon.
I started working closely with Sigil Wen and a handful of early stage startups at the heart of it all. Single digit teams creating value for millions.
In high school. Jio had just made internet cheap enough that I could finally spend hours online without thinking about the bill.
I found co-founders across different cities, one all the way in Canada, and we built Basch: an AI video generation engine that produced lip-synced video from text. This was before generative AI was a mainstream conversation — back when it lived sparsely in GitHub repos and research papers, not product launches.
2000+ users. Educators, creators, businesses. A teacher used Basch to translate his Southeast Asian course content into English. One tool, built once, let someone's knowledge cross a language barrier and reach an entirely new audience.
AI felt like that principle amplified. I could not look back.
I was 11 when the internet made something click. One person's decision, encoded once, works for a thousand people while they sleep.
Building software was the cleanest way I could see to do that. So I taught myself.
Within a year I was getting paid to ship final year projects for college students. They had the knowledge. I had the time, the hunger, and enough software to close the gap. First money I ever made.
Jodhpur, India. 700kms from Delhi.
