yajat's blog

Things I've built (that I'm proud of)

  1. HourSense (2025) – We built AI time tracking software for one of the largest law firms in India as third-year students in Singapore. (and that's not even the crazy part) hoursense.com

  2. Shabdify (2024) – I love NYT Games, but I was frustrated with the American references. So, I made Shabdify, an Indian take on NYT Connections. It was supposed to be a weekend project, but I ended up writing a daily word game for 200 days in a row. It had loyal 50-100 people play it every day, and over all 5000+ players, 20,000+ plays to date. shabdify.com

  3. GPT Book Club (2023) – Back when RAG was new, my friend Manas and I built a Chat with PDF website where users could go and ask their life's questions to self-help books and get answers with citations. I made my first Instagram reel ever, which ended up getting 200k+ views. It's gotten 20,000+ users till date. gptbook.club

  4. yaR (2023) – The first project where I worked closely with users. It started when we built a pendant for visually impaired individuals for a hackathon. We saw the lack of affordable assitive tech and spent the next few months working with a local NGO to refine the product. Won the James Dyson Award. James Dyson Award Page

  5. Weev (2024) – The project that made me realise why hardware is so difficult. We built our own friend.com pendant, that listened to your life. weev.dev

  6. AskWaai (2023–2024) – An AI writing tool for a compulsory NTU course, used by 300–500 students. Featured in NTU’s HEY! magazine and The Straits Times. Magazine article