Dhyey, the long version
2020.
COVID happened.
Apparently my response was to open Scratch and drag blocks around until something moved.
I had no idea what I was doing.
I just liked that I could make things happen on a screen.
that part never really went away.Then high school happened.
And then everything happened at once.
(this is where a plan would go, if I'd had one)Every "books you must read" list I found felt like an ad.
So I flipped it.
Pick a person you'd like to become. Read what they actually read.
Then I built it. millionaireslibrary.com
noticed it, poked at it, built my own version. (this becomes a pattern.)Meanwhile, completely unrelated:
football.
State level. Twice.
zero screens involved.On the side: an 8-week Data Science course from IIT Madras.
because apparently I had free time?At 16, someone paid me for something I made.
My first cheque. Five figures.
wait. people pay for this?And then there was JEE.
It started as one branch among many.
Then it was most of them.
Then it was all of them.
the other branches got very quiet.92.3
percentile.
Which sounds great.
Until you add two words:
General Category.
That road didn't go where I expected.
So I ended up somewhere else.
Ahmedabad University.
and this is where the roots got completely out of hand.I scraped 200+ YC job listings.
Then built something that tells you the moment a new one shows up.
It's not public yet.
… / 3,000 taps
Everyone agrees we should segregate waste. Almost nobody does.
It started as an Environment & Climate Change FDP project at AU, with one question: what if doing it paid you back?
01 · noticed
A while back I noticed more parents installing CCTV cameras to keep an eye on their kids.
02 · questioned
The obvious fix is a better camera. Sharper, wider, more notifications.
but nobody has ever been cheered up by a CCTV camera.03 · imagined
What if, instead of watching them, we gave them a companion?
04 · built
So: a 15-day residential robotics course at Atal Kalam Research Park, a lot of OpenCV, and one very googly-eyed robot.
A webcam finds you. Two servos turn the eyes towards you.
it follows you. politely.2020: make something move on a screen.
Now: make something turn around and look at you.
same instinct. more wires.
found you.servosnow
2020The paperwork, for anyone who likes that sort of thing.
State football, U-19: 2nd placeSGFI · Sports Authority of Gujarat · 2023
Data Science & AIIIT Madras · 2024
Torrent Power Cup U20Gujarat State Football Association · 2025
NCC 'A' CertificateNational Cadet Corps · 2022And a lot of things that are only just starting.
thick: real. thin: growing. faint: no idea yet.Still growing.
no idea what all of this becomes yet. honestly, that's the fun part.