Projects

• CSI Based Activity Recognition — A paper I'm working on under Prof Sougata Sen where we're trying to train a model on CSI value plots of a WIFi network in a room to recognise what's going on between the sender and receiver.
• Smart Space — The research project I'm leading at DaSH lab, BITS Goa where we're putting raspberry pis and cameras in a classroom to monitor student attention to help improve teaching pedagogy.
• Telescope Webportal — I'm leading a team building a webportal for SEDS Celestia, our college astronomy club's motorised telescope, so anybody could request a live image from it of the night sky.
• Socialscri.be — Socialscribe lets newsletter creators add social sign-up buttons (sign-up with google) to their websites without coding. I designed and built the entire thing up and grew it to over $1k in profits.
• Twift.xyz (now defunct) – Now defunct, Twift helped creators run "reply with an 👋" giveaways on Twitter, handling sending thousands of DMs without being marked as spam. I built and designed the whole web-app and DM-ing engine while Prado (@pradologue) helped me with growing it to hundreds of users. We had to eventually shut down when the Twitter API pricing change made this too expensive to continue ($40k/month to be exact).
• Dump.ink (now defunct) – Dump is a minimal micro-blogging platform I built for Deta Space which lets anybody create and host their own microblogs for free for ever. It is completely decentralised. Deta offered to buy it from me if I turned it into a decentralised social media protocol which I couldn't work on as life got in the way. I may continue this in the future.
• Back of my Head (now defunct) – I ran an email newsletter rounding up cool stuff I found throughout the week. It went on the get over a thousand subscribers but I couldn't be consistent and decided to drop it. It did lead me to build Socialscribe though.
• Right Click (now defunct) – I used to write a blog called Theciva about tech news and stuff like what would happen if Apple bought DuckDuckGo, flaws of India's COVID-times contact tracing app or what Google being carbon neutral meant. I also got a little bit of readers through SEO though most readers came through repost (w canonical urls) on Medium (unfortunately their partner program wasn't in India then) and HackerNoon (where I won me 3 Noonies prizes!). Theciva evolved into Right Click (had to change the name!) which I tried to turn into Morning Brew for tech (also inspired by Filter Coffee). Later, I shut it down and sold the coolest twitter username I have ever owned yet—@rightclick—to rc.xyz, an NFT art platform for the easiest $1000 of my life.