I got tired of our family's private life living on someone else's servers, so I built our own messaging app. Shopping lists, read receipts, calls and all. Here's the why, the trade-offs, and what it is actually like to run it.
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Building Software for the People I Love (Who Don't Care About Software)
The people I build for don't care about my stack. only that it works and helps them. What it's like to build software for your wife, your mom, your friends, where a bug isn't a ticket, it's personal.
What Riding Solo Across 33 Countries Taught Me About Building Solo
The same person who rode off solo into 33 countries is now building software solo. What the solitude inside a helmet taught me about the solitude at a keyboard.
Recipe for Jammin Keto Cheese Bread
I experimented with the Ketogenic Diet for several months and experienced significant beneficial changes in my body. However, I found it too restrictive to maintain long-term. Nevertheless, this journey taught me about delightful recipes that serve as substitutes for carb cravings, such as this Keto Cheese Bread recipe.
10 Things I Learned Riding from the US to India
Here are 10 lessons I learned from this most amazing experience of my life.
How to make Sourdough Bread
Many years ago, when I was swamped with running a startup in Delhi, to help clear my mind, I picked up a new side project, baking sourdough bread
A Complete Guide to Deploying a Node.js app on AWS with Docker
Once you've got a web application running locally on your machine, if you want to access it on the internet, you've got to deploy it.
Book Launch: Riding Towards Me
Riding Towards Me is the epic adventure story of Jay Kannaiyan who dropped everything he had in the US to ride his motorcycle back home to India by the longest possible route.
India to Thailand, Through Myanmar, on Royal Enfields
An Indian Army officer took a quick look at our stamped papers and motioned for the gate to be lifted









