hey, i'm aarnav_
i'm 22// computed from dob: 2004-02-24, swe @ zionai in san francisco.
product-minded engineer; love building agents & automations.
moved from chicago to sf.
been to 5 cities this year & counting — goal: 20. (chicago, la, san diego, austin, phoenix so far.)
a few achievements:
- shipped spndly.ai — ai paperwork for smbs// $10k mrr & climbing
- built stormengine.ai — doing god's work// helping homeowners get paid from insurance
- won ASA datafest in college// statistical analysis under 48 hours
- ran my first sub-2hr half marathon// chicago · evanston, july 4
- did my first hyrox in chicago// 8 stations · 8km · no quit
currently building:
- spndly.ai — ai that does your paperwork
- stormengine.ai — claim command center for property damage claims
- heron — quiet rss reader, no algo
soft spot for smbs and hyper-niche verticals — the work above should make that obvious.
since jan 2026: // denser week = shippier week
// every solid green square = a day i shipped ≥10 commits. every grey one = a sunday, sick day, or both. hover to read the day.
tl;dr:
made my first $1,000 in 11th grade running box-fight wagers on fortnite. scaled a gaming clan to 6 members; played competitive on the side.
in college, worked a couple side gigs. built an app that gave personalised meeting insights with timestamped links — basically a bot for really good meeting notes. then one that helped college students find the right clubs to join.
now i'm a builder. i like turning small ideas into small products quickly. most fail.// ~80% fail the ones that don't pay for the ones that did.
a few open questions: e expand all
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experience so far:
some projects i've shipped:
- → token-trace.dev/open-source llm cost profiler · 1.8k stars
- → minimum-router/model routing in 40 lines of python
- → prompt-shrink/cli that compresses prompts ~38%
- → this site/vanilla js, no build step, 8kb gzip