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I build apps and teach AI to do the rest.

Indie dev in Bangalore. SpeakMac and MacWiFi pay the rent — private, local-first, bought once. The rest of the time I run experiments on how to actually work with AI: agents with hands, model orchestras, pipelines that ship while I sleep. the apps are just the visible part :)

Open SpeakMac ↗ Enter the lab ↓

e51de14 chore(life): quit job, start shipping // 2023 b4e8a2c post(nohive): the new way of deep work // fresh a3f9c01 feat(speakmac): voice → text, zero cloud // pays rent 7b2d4e8 feat(macwifi): tell the truth about wi-fi // menu bar c9e1f55 feat(clawdbot): gave the AI actual hands // does my chores 91ad7f3 feat(ops): support inbox answers itself // claude in the loop f014a92 fix(pricing): $19 once. no subscription. // obviously 3e7bb20 feat(chrome): usd→inr extension // built in 8 minutes d8b3c67 docs(site): static html, rsync, done // you're here

01 work — shipped, not a graveyard

Small software. Owned, not rented.

Two apps, both alive, both built for myself first. No cloud, no accounts, no subscriptions — you buy them, they're yours.

P—01 pays the rent

SpeakMac

Offline speech-to-text for Mac. Hold a key, talk, watch it type — your voice never leaves the machine. Indian and Chinese accents are first-class citizens, not edge cases.

$19 once, forever <0.5s latency 25+ languages 0% cloud

speakmac.app ↗

P—02 menu bar resident

MacWiFi

A Wi-Fi truth-teller for the menu bar. Know the network is garbage before the call drops, not after. bad packets have no friends

1 glance network truth 0 tabs no speedtest.net 100% native macOS

macwifi.live ↗

02 the lab — experiments in working with ai

I don't use AI. I run it like a team.

The real obsession: figuring out how a one-person company works when the agents do the chores. Everything below is live in my daily stack.

EXP—01 occasionally rogue

Clawdbot

A personal AI assistant with actual hands — Mac, phone, Telegram, terminal. It books, replies, fixes, and files. Sometimes it does my chores too well.

meet the bot ↗

EXP—02 daily driver

The model orchestra

No single-model loyalty. Grok ideates, Claude executes, Gemini validates — big decisions get a council, not a vibe. Claude Code is the closest thing to an extension of my brain.

how I run it ↗

EXP—03 ships while I sleep

Self-running ops

Support triage, release pipelines, analytics digests — all wired into agents. The support inbox answers itself; I review and hit send. A company of one, headcount of many.

not for sale, just how I work

EXP—04 weekend build

Lumière Studio

Self-hosted AI image studio. Three models side by side, bring your own keys, pay per generation. The anti-subscription stance, applied to image gen.

github ↗

03 writing — notes from the build

Occasionally, words ship too.

fresh off substack jun 2026 — no hive

The new way of Deep Work

How you do work has changed. So should your approach — focus, redistributed for the age of agents. written between agent runs :)

read on substack ↗

001 Using agents effectively for product work how I actually use the robots Apr 2026 002 The Probabilistic Accelerator a theory I still stand by Dec 2024 003 Stop reading productivity tips every day ironic, I know May 2020

New words land on Substack ↗ subscribe before it's cool. it may never be cool :)

04 about — the operator

Curious guy who quit the career to build. Apps that are private, local-first, and bought once, owned forever. The bigger experiment is how I build — AI as a team, not a tool. It ships, I steer. Revenue's public on X, failures included :)

no cloud no subscriptions local-first agents do the chores build in public bangalore, in

subject: builder 12.97°N 77.59°E

05 contact — send the useful thing

Got a weird workflow?

hi@speakmac.app

Bug reports, agent experiments, odd ideas, or whatever you're building. I read everything. I reply to most of it :)

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